There are many options to fill in the blank on this one.
Seeing new places. Discovering new cultures. Getting lost in foreign cities. Meeting new people. Looking through
your pictures and remembering. Looking through your Instagram pictures and
being impressed (you can still see our Instagram photos by clicking on the
thumbnail photos to the right). Coming home.
Yep, coming home may be my answer now. I would not trade
this year for anything. What an amazing adventure and blessing Matt and I could
share our first year of marriage caring for one another in such a unique way. I
am so grateful for it. But there comes a point when you are tired of waking up
and not being entirely sure what city or even what country you are in. There
comes a point when you want to sleep in the same bed night after night.
While we no longer wonder what country we’re in, we haven’t
quite made it to the same bed night after night yet. But that will come.
We have been home for four months now (that is hard to
believe!). We have loved reuniting with friends and family over that time.
However, I have had to continually hang my head in shame as Matt sings praises
of our blog and I have to admit that I never finished it. Honestly.
Frankly, I was tired. I didn’t really have anything witty to
say and as I mentioned before, the number of pictures we were taking was
dwindling. But, we made it around the world and we need to record that. Our
progeny should not be left with a cliffhanger wondering if we ever made it out
of the Baltics.
So, I am returning to bring this blog home. Thank you for
reading it and enjoying our adventure with us. I apologize for several odd
typos and probably some incoherent sentences. In my defense, I essentially
texted each of those posts on my phone. Except for China. I had to email those
to my amazing mom who then typed them and posted them for me since I couldn’t
access the blog in China. Oh, China, you and your regulations feel so far away and so long ago now.
So, there is my ‘welcome back’ and my ‘enjoy the end’. We
visited two more countries before some pretty fun adventures here in the states
since the last time I wrote (including a hike along the Sierras, ending in
climbing Mt. Whitney!). So, here they
are: the end, for now.
