Our trip was really the best I've ever been on, and I'm no stranger to our gorgeous, diverse world. We decided to take a great one in 2008 since we weren't pregnant yet. Instead of spending all of that money on fertility, we'd take a vacation and worry about it in 2009. After deciding on Egpt and Israel, making a deposit and several payments, we found out I was having a peanut. Very good news. "Should we cancel the trip and save money and be responsible now that we're going to be parents?" I asked. Eddy yawned in response and said, "We can do that later. This will be much harder to arrange once peanut is a person." And so we went. And we are so glad that we did. It was incredible to see all the history of religions and civilizations that the middle east holds. I was especially excited to see the "mother land", Lebanon, while we were in northern Israel. I kept telling Eddy that all of the people there looked like a cousin of mine or family. I wanted to hug them all and become Jewish. A Mormon Jew... is that allowed? I used to want to be a Mormon Nun, so why not? The people on our tour were great. We learned a lot from them and realized how glad we were to go on this, the greatest trip of our lives, at such a young age. All of the others were retired or nearly retired and said of all the places they'd been, this was the most impressive and amazing. And we got to do it at 24 and 32. Pretty neat to have the perspective, testimony and insight to take with us for the rest of our lives. Here's a few pics of Egypt and Isreal.
