When we got married my husbands entire extended family flew in from Chicago and San Diego. It was a big event, and of course they weren’t going to miss it. But my husbands nephew was graduating from middle school two weeks later and everyone had planned to be there for that. However, once they all just traveled to Utah a second cross country trip was out of the question. So I thought that we needed to be there for that. So for our honeymoon we headed to Southern Utah, Las Vegas and Southern California. In Las Vegas I was excited to walk the strip with my new husband (finally being old enough to gamble) and we headed out. I only ever wore one type of shoe. I had six pairs of this one type of shoe. So when I was packing I pulled the two cleanest looking shoes out of the pile and put them in the suitcase. I’ll claim a ‘new bride’ moment but I had only packed two left shoes. But I was determined to persevere and make this walk. We didn’t get very far at all! My feet were killing me. The next day we headed on to San Diego and hit a shoe store. The next day at the San Diego zoo we wandered all over that darn place. There was supposedly a Panda bear display somewhere but we couldn’t find it. I finally had to call off the search due to overly tired and abused feet.

We’ve been together 11 1/2 years and have had the opportunity to find ourselves in some really fun adventures. We took a Trusted Tours trolley tour of all of the things to do in San Francisco. What’s nice is with Trusted Tours you can sign up for their newsletter which is full of ideas for family vacation ideas. They have tours all over the country, and if you sign up now, you’ll be entered in the drawing to win an IPOD Nano.

They even have tours around Chicago and even though we live here, it would be fun to get the kids on a tour to really see and appreciate the city they call home!