Put a little gravel in your travel

 

Get on out of town!  That is exactly what hubs and I decided to do last night; it was splendid.  We packed ourselves a little picnic and headed up, up, up into the mountains with the windows rolled down and country on the radio.  :)  The road was a little bit like a rollercoaster ride but the mister is an excellent driver when it comes to dirt roads, large ruts and massive rocks in the way so I was completely at ease, even when coming back down the mountain in complete darkness.  We were attempting to make it to the very tipy top of the mountain so that we could have a 360 degree view with the sunset but alas snow on the road (yes SNOW at the end of July!) deterred us so we turned around and "settled" for this 180 degree view instead.  Again, without even trying, Thursday night wins!

P.S. Blog post title taken from this catchy tune

Change in Plans

 

Today our plans for a romantic date night were thwarted by a severe case of womanhood for yours truly.  But, the night was not all loss because:

- I was able to finish my book and verify that I do in fact make a good detective having solved the mystery well before the heroine.  Girl, you should have let me handle that one . . . it would have saved lives!
- A nap was not only encouraged by husband but also astonishingly easy to take even with my usual "use every minute of the day productively" ways
- Dinner amounted to M&Ms - sorry Mom
- Husband and I got to have a necessary though hard to bring up conversation about the future and I didn't even cry!
- There were plenty of kisses
- And mostly the night was not a loss because just about the time that we would have been enjoying a delicious dessert in a dark, romantic, candlelit room we were instead enjoying the most incredible watercolor display in the sky!

I stand by my claim - Thurday nights are the best!

*All photos completely unretouched