My god I'm so excited I could almost burst!!

Neil is going to a conference in San Diego in June and I am going out to meet him afterwards for a holiday!!

We are going to spend 5 days in and around San Diego then go on a road trip spending quite a while in the Sequoia and Kings canyon and Yosemite National parks before finishing up just north of San Francisco, probably Napa valley area or thereabouts. We will be stopping off in various places like Carmel/ Monterey along the way. We will be there over the 4th July for all the fireworks etc which will be nice.

2 and a half weeks of utterly fabulous holidayness!!

We went before almost exactly 3 years ago but we had Neil's work colleague tagging along with us and stayed in really basic hostels etc. It was still fantastic but this time we are going to go for a small step up the accomodation ladder and stay in slightly less basic places and it will be just the two of us (probably our last big holiday just the two of us for a very long time!!!)

We have spent the last however many years worying about paying off debts and trying to save to get on the property ladder and now we finally have our debts paid off and are able to save for a deposit for a house the goalposts have moved again and its almost impossible to get a first time buyers mortgage so we thought sod it! Lets just go enjoy ourselves while we can. We can start saving when the holiday is over and won't regret not having done the things we wanted to while we could.

Can you tell I'm excited!!

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Isla

Tied the knot at last!!
19th November 2005