I've realized that I'm a bad relaxer. I'm constantly wanting to check things off my to-do list, or talk about what else needs to be accomplished. I hate having a list of "undone" items while relaxing. In contrast, DH can have all the things in the world to accomplish and still decide to take a whole day to do nothing. Yup, nothing. This drives me crazy for two reasons--first, because he could be helping with my to-do list (like house cleaning). Second and probably more importantly, because no matter how hard I try, I really can't seem to do the same.

When DH and I got engaged in 2012, it wasn't obvious where we were going to have a wedding. In part, this was because I wasn't super keen on a wedding, really. Have I mentioned I'm super introverted? Yup, I am, and spending 6 hours socializing with acquaintances makes me exhausted, not invigorated.  I threw out ideas like eloping in Africa, which--for the record--I still think is a genuinely great idea. But I didn't get very far. 

So where were we going to have a small, intimate wedding? A Washington DC wedding was not in the cards, so we were going to have to travel (keeping this blog-related, see?!)...