Where I've Been...

Hello out there in the Blogosphere!  It's been almost 8 1/2 months since I left for the adventure of a lifetime.  I was expecting to keep up with my blog while I was away but iffy internet connections (out at sea, who would have guessed) and the lure of living a life a lot less connected kept me away - and to tell you the truth I'm glad it did.  But now I'm starting a new life and new adventures and, just like before, want to use this space as a place to document this transition.  For those of you who read my blog before (hi, Mom) I'm actually in quite a similar position - big transition, looking for a job and looking for somewhere to settle down with one big exception....

I left in July to live and work at sea and in September I met the love of my life,

Got engaged one month later,

And got married in Costa Rica two weeks after that (for anyone that's counting, yes, that's 6 weeks total from meeting to marriage).  Two weeks after we were married we were separated for 3 months (he's sea-faring as well) and when we finally got back together we traveled a solid 6 weeks...

To our honeymoon in Baja, Mexico,

To meet his family in Chicago,

To Seattle to introduce him to the other most important person in my life- my sister,

To California to introduce him to the rest of my family,

And finally to Arizona (my home state!) to end with a belated wedding reception

So now my love is out to sea again, my plans and priorities have changed, and we're starting a life together.  It's going to be crazy and probably hard sometimes (he goes out to sea for 6 weeks at a time every 6 weeks) and as of right now we have no idea where we will live, but to borrow words from William Shakespear and H.I McDunnough, these are the happy days, the salad days, as they say...

Lots, Lots more to come!