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We're going to Iceland!

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Welcome back! This is the first time we've opened Blogger in about 3 years, and we found 2 blog posts in draft from 2018. We went ahead and just added pictures and published them. They're just bullet point notes from New Zealand that nobody will understand, but they make us happy. 

The past few days have been a combination celebrating Kaylea's birthday and trying to make sure we had everything ready for the trip. Saturday, we had a failed attempt at skydiving. Failed in the sense that it was too cloudy, not that we didn't survive. Then we threw together a last minute shindig with some friends. We did some last minute shopping on Sunday.

LIFE UPDATE:

We have a dog! Her name is Marvyn and she is a two-year-old English Springer Spaniel. She's basically our child and we're obsessed with her. 



Marvyn doesn't do so well with travel, so Monday we sent her to say with her grandmother (Nonni) for the next few weeks. We already miss her very much and, based off the picture Nonni sent, she misses us too. 

We spent the rest of the day on hold with several airlines while we tried to cram as many clothes into our bags as possible. For whatever reason, Kaylea was unable to check in for our flight. Aaron was good, but Kaylea was a no go. Nobody seemed to know what the problem was. After about 4 hours, the best answer we had was "YOU NEED TO GET TO THE AIRPORT 4 HOURS BEFORE THE FLIGHT BECAUSE THEY MIGHT NOT LET YOU ON AND WE DON'T KNOW WHY". So we did that, and it seemed to work. 

We realized at 1 am last night that Kaylea's bag was way over the weight limit, and Aaron's bag was at capacity, so Aaron had to go get a new bag the second that Target opened this morning. He was the first person in, and the first person to check out. It's huge. It's pretty. It glides. We were cutting it close, but it was totally worth it.

So. Iceland for our 5 year anniversary?

Why in the heck are we going to the land of ice and fire instead of getting some R&R on some beach somewhere down south? As Kaylea put it: we'll rest when we're dead. We've managed to book ourselves a manic and frigid road trip around the entirety of Iceland. We're talking glaciers, caves, volcanoes, waterfalls, and tectonic plates.   

We'll give you more updates as we go. We'll be spending a lot of time driving, so we should have ample time to keep the blog updated.  

No promises though.



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  1. Nonni GoodingMay 18, 2021 at 3:21 PM

    Nonni here..... looking forward to reading about your adventures. Have safe travels. Love y’all!

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