Vacation Eve!

Yowza!  It's been a long time coming but it's finally here - we are heading out tomorrow.  The van is packed and vacuumed, gas tank is full, and my 2 darling daughters are sound asleep resting up for The Adventure.

There were days I wondered if this trip would ever get off the ground.  It was so easy (and fun!) to sit with my ipad and look at the map and just pick every place I thought would be fun to go to.  I made reservations, got the girls excited, and we even started a blog.  "Man!  This vacation thing is awesome", I thought.  And it was.... until the day we got a fun little letter from The IRS.  You know that's never good.

IDENTITY THEFT!! Can't lie - that definitely put a cog in our vacation wheel.  Our tax refund (vacation fund) is now lost in space and being sorted out, our credit has been affected, and we've even had problems with our bank account.  A lot of the fun and excitement about the trip has been lost with having to deal with these financial hassles.  Our itinerary has been tweaked.  Fewer places and fewer days.  **sigh**  No shrimping in Brunswick.  No Surf School in Daytona.  No visiting family and old friends in Charlotte.  But you know what? Now that our Adventure is finally upon us, we're not worrying about what we can't do - I'm just super excited about all the things we ARE!

I'm so lucky to have this time to go exploring with my girls.  As I tucked them in tonight they both told me how excited they were and that's what this trip is about.  8am can't get here fast enough!!  St. Augustine, ready or not....here we come!