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"No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today" ~ Fra Giovanni
1. I'm going camping in New Hampshire tonight with the family. G and Sam planned all of the dutch oven meals, shopped for the supplies, and packed us all up. Apparently all I have to do is pack my sweatshirt, pajamas, pillow, and toothbrush. Heaven.
2. This morning I sat in the September sun on a bench with a good friend. We talked for two hours and felt the breeze and twinges of autumn. It was so restorative and helped me remember to look upward and outward more. Heaven.
3. I'm giddy with anticipation for a girls' adventure starting Monday. Christie and I are heading out on a long-planned, much-postponed and eagerly anticipated journey to London and Paris for eight lucky days.* (Believe me, I know how lucky I am. Europe? In October? With Christie? For a whole week? Heaven.) My happy dance looks like this:
Note: I don't know about the song's hypothesis about the relationship between wifely ugliness and any subsequent husbandly happiness that springs from it. I just like the dancing, not the message. But, oh, what dancing!
4. What I do know, however, is that I married a terrific man who really is willing to find ways to build bits of heaven for us here on earth. He continues to amaze me with his kindness and support. He not only tolerates my pursuits and wanderings he nudges me to do them, knowing me as he does. Here's to G. Heaven to me.
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*please let me know what your Londan and Paris faves are. I admit I've been to London a few times but I've still got a lot to see and learn about that city. And I've only been to Paris once, when I was 18. What to see/eat/walk/experience?
Saturday, October 1, 2011 | tagged G, I like making lists, a little bit sappy, adventures | 5 Comments 
Reader Comments (5)
I can't believe you're going camping two days before our trip. Sort of like I can't believe I'm shooting a wedding two days before our trip. I think we will need a vacation before our vacation.
I literally cannot sleep, I am so excited. This is going to be the best trip evah. Here's to husbands who say yes, and don't even have to think twice about it. We definitely got the good ones...
Paris. I am so jealous.
Walk the bridges in the twilight. Sacre Coeur in the morning on a glorious clear day. My fav museum is the Musee D'Orsay. If I think of any more I'll let you know!
In London
see: the collection of original documents at the British Library
eat: bangers and mash at a pub
walk: across the Millenium Bridge to the Tate Modern at night
experience: evensong at Westminster Abbey
Have a marvelous time!
Every girls needs a good Greg!
Having just gotten home from Paris and as I told Christie, you just can't go wrong. It's all about the food, for sure. My best recommendation is that you should take the bicycle tour. It was a recommendation from my bff who went a week before us. I thought it would be lame but since I trust her and she is so like me (hence, the bff status), I did it and it was FABULOUS!!! I am not a bicycle type gal. It was a HIGHLIGHT of Paris. TRUST me on this. If I can remember to ask Greg, I'll get the name of the company we used, but I think they are all about the same. Of course, don't miss Versailles. That was my fave.
Happy adventures, dear! What a great thing to do with a good ffriend. You are probably on your way home now, but I love to think of the carefree "do whatever" days you have enjoyed.