Ryan and I have been planning a week long vacation to visit some of our friends/family on the East coast for a few months. When we first started talking about it “next fall” seemed like a long way away (that was before we even found out we were expecting a new addition). We didn’t know if it would be possible for us to go, but over the summer we saw a GREAT deal on plane tickets in and out of Boston ($300 round trip for both of us), and so we jumped on it. Even then it seemed like it was a long way away. And yet, here we are…it’s in only a few weeks! We need to book a rental car for the week (we will be visiting people all the way from upstate NY to Maryland, and so a car will be necessary). And we need to talk to all the people we want to see and figure out when they are available/warn them we are coming. I’m so excited to go out there. It’s been far too long, and we don’t get to see those friends and family nearly often enough.

Every time I look at the calendar I think about how close it is. And how fun it will be. We fly out on Halloween, and will be getting into Boston around 3:30 or so on Saturday afternoon, which should leave some time to do at least a little bit of touristy stuff. I’ve never been to Boston, and I think it would be a shame to not look around and have dinner. Any suggestions for an easy to get to place? Or somewhere we can park and walk around?

The other exciting thing about that week is that the annual Halloween party we go to is scheduled for the Friday before we leave, and even though it will make things super-busy we are planning on going. It’s a costume party, and it’s so fun every year, and who knows if we’ll be able to go next year (it’s an adults only party). So we decided we would make it work. Oh, did I mention the party is in Rochester? Yah, not really “on our way” to the cities (where we are flying out of). But still, fun! And when we get back we are going to another party – some other friends of ours have a birthday/halloween party every year, and it’ll be right before Ryan’s 30th birthday, and so we want to make sure to get to that one too. Luckily that one is in the cities, so once we fly back in we can just head over there. I’m sure we’ll be completely exhausted afterward, but it feels like we should try to do as much of this kind of stuff as we can, because God knows it’s not going to get any easier! LOL.

Anyway, that is what has been on my mind recently. I’m so excited I can hardly stand it.

Anything coming up that you all are excited about?