So this blog has become one of those that only gets updated once or twice a month, I’m really sorry about that, it annoys me too. But life has, yet again, been very busy. August is the month of birthdays around here with 5 in 2 weeks, so there were many birthday festivities recently which made for quite a bit of fun, and full weekends. This holiday weekend is the big Rock and Roll Half-Marathon in Virginia Beach that Jim and I have been training for for the past four months. We have the hotel down there the whole holiday weekend (the race is on Sunday) so it’ll also be a mini beach vacation as well. I’m so excited to run it, not sure if I’ll end up running every mile but I’m definitely gonna finish it, no question on that! It’s pretty awesome to go from hating running and “only running when someone chases me” to actually enjoying running in the mornings. It’s true what they say, at some point you transition from “Ugh, this is work” to “Oh, this is nice” when you’re running and once you (finally) get past that barrier it’s really quite pleasant. Running is a good time to think about nothing I’ve found, if I try to think about something too intense (some task at work or something) I lose concentration on running and always end up tripping or something. So I’ll stick with chatting with Jim, listening to music or audio books. I’ll post pics from the race once I’m back from….my trip to Europe!

So Jeremy is going to a conference for work next week in Germany and we figured, don’t get to go to Europe very often, why not turn this into a vacation as well? So I’m meeting him out there next week and we’re going to go to Florence and Paris for a week, riding the overnight train between the two. I’ve travelled to Florence before, but have only been there during the day, and never stayed overnight, so I’m excited to (hopefully) get to see a less touristy side of Florence. I’ve never been to Paris, that’s sort of the last “big city” in western Europe that I haven’t been to so I’m really looking forward to it. If you have any suggestions of places to go, things to see, food to eat, whatever, leave me a comment and lemme know! I’m sure there will be many, many, many pictures from this trip up on Flickr when I get back. Until then, ciao and au revior!