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So you’re busy getting ready for that much anticipated trip.\u00a0 There is still so much to do, the last thing you are thinking about is journaling.\u00a0 The clothes need to be washed, ironed and packed, the kids have three more events to attend and you are leaving tomorrow.\u00a0 You begin to hyperventilate, wondering how you will fit everything in.\u00a0 This look into everyday life helps others connect with you, on a more personal level.\u00a0 Our journals tend to reflect the positive news reels, the highlights if you will.\u00a0 When you finally begin your journey, why not let a little day- to- day activity fill your pages?\u00a0 Tell us what was happening before you finally started your adventure!<\/p>\n

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\"photo\"<\/a>Sept. 18, 2015<\/p>\n

I am finally seated on the plane.\u00a0 It has been a whirlwind of an adventure getting here.\u00a0 This whole week was filled with hard labor.\u00a0 We are currently working on renovating a house, with the intention of selling it in the next month or so.\u00a0 This means there are deadlines to keep.\u00a0 After hearing the kitchen countertops will take 4-6 weeks, from the measure date, we are in a panic to get the kitchen prepared.\u00a0 Between Sunday and Wednesday of this week, we have worked late into the night, to completed the painting on the main floor,\u00a0 lay the bamboo flooring in the kitchen and dining room and install all of the kitchen cabinets!\u00a0 Thursday, the day of our departure, we nervously waited for the counters to be measured.\u00a0 There couldn’t be more than 1\/8 of an inch difference in the level across all of the cabinets.\u00a0 We were due to leave Traverse City at lunchtime.\u00a0 Measuring was taking place around 10am.\u00a0 There would be no time for corrections or adjustments.\u00a0 If this didn’t work the first time, we would be waiting 6-8 weeks for our installation, as we would need to reschedule our measuring for after we returned from our trip.\u00a0 We needlessly worried.\u00a0 Still, we didn’t depart on our road trip, a seven hour journey to Niagra Falls, Ontario until 3 p.m.\u00a0 Somehow I managed to find house cleaning to do until then!\u00a0 After finally getting going, we enjoyed a lovely roadside picnic dinner and pulled into Niagra at 11pm.\u00a0 A midnight walk to the falls, a romantic sunrise, and a day of sightseeing, was followed by crazy drivers, extensive construction, another 1 1\/2 hour long car ride to Toronto.\u00a0 Then, we had trouble locating where we planned to drop the car off for the week, followed by long lines at the security point.\u00a0\u00a0 We had allowed nearly five hours for our short trip from the falls into Toronto.\u00a0 As we sat wolfing hot dogs and fries down for dinner, the minutes to boarding passed quickly and we ended up throwing half of our meal away!\u00a0 Surprisingly, it seems the remainder of the night passed uneventfully and we woke, following a peaceful night of sleep, just as the plane began to descend into Manchester airport.\u00a0 We are now ready to “officially” begin our vacation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So you’re busy getting ready for that much anticipated trip.\u00a0 There is still so much to do, the last thing you are thinking about is journaling.\u00a0 The clothes need to be washed, ironed and packed, the kids have three more events to attend and you are leaving tomorrow.\u00a0 You begin to hyperventilate, wondering how you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[366],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-journal-scrapbooking","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcexplorers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}