Seattle, here we come!!!

Starting next Sunday, I am going to be on a business trip, hitting multiple cities in CA (La Jolla, Rancho Cucamongo, LA, San Jose), ending with a red-eye on Thursday night - yikes!!!  After much nail-biting on my part, Adam was FINALLY able to take off a day and a half from work and we are taking some much needed vacation ahead of my trip --- a portion of my flight is company-funded, very nice!  Unfortunately, booking a trip a week ahead of time isn't exactly cheap.  Since Adam isn't interested in the spa-scene of La Jolla (go figure!), where my conference is being held, we decided to find a city somewhere on the West coast to visit.... 

SEATTLE HERE WE COME! 

We plan on flying in Thursday afternoon and driving straight to Mount Ranier (which according to our guide book is about an hour and a half from the airport).  Adam has found a fabulous country inn for us to stay at.  On Friday, we are going to take in some nature/mountains and then drive back in to downtown Seattle that evening.  On Friday and Saturday night we are going to stay at a hotel on one of the piers.  We'll have Saturday to see the sights of the city and it looks like there is plenty that we are going to want to pack in.  On Sunday, Adam flies home and I head down to my conference... it will be an action-packed weekend and it doesn't sound like it will be very restful, but we are both looking forward to the change of scenery. 

We haven't had a vacation since our long weekend in Jamaica (back in April!!!), and with my exam looming, it looks like this will be our "last hurrah" for 2007.  Oh, except for the wedding in Florida that I am really looking forward to, but happens to fall just two weeks before my exam..... 

I'm disappointed we didn't get more vacation in, but I guess we set the bar pretty high last year having made it to Germany AND Japan in one year.... hardly something we can afford to do on an annual basis.

Already have my sights on next year though -- and I hope to convince Adam to take two seperate, full weeks of vacation -- never an easy task!!!  I'd like to do a week with friends using my mom's time share in the Spring and a trip to Switzerland and Italy in the Fall.... so much of the world still left to see --- time to get as much in as we can, before we are tied down by a bunch of kiddies....