The Sprayberries

Advantages to travelling with a pregnant lady

[jordanna]

- you get to eat all the time
- you will never be the person who asks the driver to pull over at a rest station
- time for afternoon naps is a given
- you will feel athletically superior, as you can walk more than a 1/2 mile without resting
- you will get lots of alone time, as the pregnant lady will frequently abandon you to nap
- you probably thought you had another 6 months before getting out of the house took that long (do we have snacks? comfortable shoes? a sweatshirt? 3 gallons of water? oh god, unlock the door I forgot my vitamins!)

My fantastic inlaws, Roger and Teri, are in town. Over the weekend we drove up to the Grand Canyon, which was awesome. We regularly realized we had lost Roger, only to find him staring raptly into the canyon a quarter mile back along the trail. Teri was unable to stop hiking along the rim, eventually losing all of us to afternoon naps and doing the last several miles by herself. I was the first to fall (Tyson escorted me home), but Roger made it all the way to lunch. The weather was picture-perfect sunny fall. ty and I hadn't realized how much we missed cool weather, and coming back into the hot Tucson sun was really hard. Before coming down here, we wondered if we would fall in love and want to stay forever. Being in that crisp fall air over the weekend was like coming home. I can't imagine settling long term in a climate where I have to order my seasonal pumkin-spice latte iced because it is 95 degrees outside.