Where do I begin? Its been so long and I apologize for the radio silence.
Well... without getting into it, the France job fell through. Our lives have completely changed and it all happened within a week. We moved out of our house, subleased a tiny apartment in Mill Valley, and booked 2 tickets to Paris leaving Oct. 6th and returning to SF sometime in December. Oh and our gorgeous going away party that friends threw instantly turned into our Bon Voyage. (They are amazing!)
We are taking the Europe trip that you are supposed to take after college except we are doing it when we are 30, well for the record I am 29. We have lots of cities on our list of travels and haven't quite ironed out in which order we plan to visit those places but we will keep you posted, right here!
Ty was laid off at ILM (again!) and since I had quit my job, put all of our stuff in storage, we figured, what the hell???
I could tell you that we are totally excited and we are, trust me. But part of me at least feels very irresponsible, irrational and maybe a bit crazy for doing this. This is definitely not something I have done before and neither has Tyler. But, if we think about it, the part that appealed the most to us about moving to Provence was having the ability to live in Europe and do little side trips to see a lot of the places you read about and hear about but don't imagine going until the time is right, or you have enough money or you can get the time off work.
1 out of 3 isn't bad. We are going to see all of the places we planned to see over our stint in Provence and a few more. We know, at least for now, when we are coming back, and we know for sure when we leave. That is a very good thing.
Where we will work and live when we return is still a mystery. Worried? Yes. Do we think that sipping un cafe and nibbling on a pain o chocolat at Cafe duex Maggots will cure that? Absolutely. At least temporarily. Denial is totally under-rated.
We love living in Marin and hope that we will be able to come back and find jobs that we enjoy and will enable us to get our house back. That is the next challenge.
For now, its how many shoes to I take to Paris, realistically? And how to I pack for a climate that is bound to change while we are there?
Mostly, tomorrow, do I have time for a run and yoga or just one of those and how about meeting up with some friends for a walk and what will I make for dinner?
These are simple things that we seriously have taken for granted and not even realized how lucky we are to be able to do these things and live where we do.
I have a feeling going to see Europe will only deepen those thoughts and we can't wait to share with you our new journey. Its going to be different than we originally planned but no doubt amazing and a once in a lifetime trip that we are fortunate enough to take.
Where I don't always feel lucky that the job didn't work out as I was so looking forward to it, I feel like someone upstairs is smiling down on us telling themselves that we will thank them later. And that, I can live with.
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