The countdown is officially on! Against all odds, Luke and I have decided to go on a spring break vacation this year- we are roadtripping down to Key West with four of our close friends, and we are incredibly excited.
A very affordable and fun RV trip to Key West?! Sounds like an easy decision to make - yes, please! However, for Luke and I, deciding to take vacations that we go together is difficult. Vacations on are own are easy to decide - I went to Seattle last year, and am going to a week-long teaching convention this summer! Luke will also be taking this Memorial Day weekend to backpack and canoe in the Boundary Waters. Why is it so easy for us to decide that we want to spend an entire week without each other, one of us away from the farm? Because when only one of us leaves, we know that the other person is there, making sure that everything on the farm is going well and nothing is dying.
But its not the best circumstance though! That means that everything we do to get away, we are doing ourselves. We don't get to take a vacation together. While our honeymoon went pretty well (except for the 3 of the 6 days when Luke had the flu), he was constantly thinking about the farm - did the market go well? Were all the CSA bags delivered? Was there a late frost and the tomatoes didn't get covered? A million questions going through our minds when we are supposed to be enjoying our vacation.
So, how and why did we decide to take a week away in March? It wasn't an easy decision to make - the week we are going is immediately after we will have planted our tomatoes in the greenhouse. However, the decision was easier to make. First - for our own sanity, we need a vacation. Second, we have a wonderful employee who has been with us for almost a year now, and he is able to watch over the farm for us and keep everything going. And, we are blessed with parents who are willing to come to our rescue, water the sprouts and care for the chickens so that we are able to enjoy our time away.
Thus, we were presented with an opportunity that was hard to turn down, and I am so excited to say that we are heading down to the Florida Keys in a little less than three weeks. I'm sure the departure won't be easy and Luke will be a little stressed, but I can rest assured that Austin will take wonderful care of our house and our farm, and our parents will fill in as necessary. So I can't wait to throw our inhibitions to the wind and party hard down in Florida. Okay, well, that's not that likely, I'm still me and Luke is still Luke - but I guess we can get excited to enjoy some Florida sun and spend some quality time with each other and friends.
