Just kidding!

We couldn't do it... and I'm glad we didn't! When it came time to actually book the cruise, with the fees and the real cost of the room, plus considering the mandatory tips and everything that is not included- the awesome value of the cruise didn't seem like a great value anymore! Our real dream was to go to Hawaii, but we knew we could never afford it, which is why we were just going to do a cruise. One of my coworkers is a travel agent though, and so I just thought I should ask him if it was even possible to do a trip to Hawaii on our budget, and I was so pleasantly surprised! He quoted us at a price even lower than our cruise! So we did it, it's booked, we're going. And we are soooooooo super stoked.

We've decided!

We're going to do it... we going on a cruise! We have been trying to decide what we wanted to do for our anniversary since, well since we got married I suppose. We had never been "vacation taking" kinds of people, but I think that is because we've never had a vacation! After our honeymoon, we were like, "oh we HAVE to do this more often...." It was the BEST week of my life. And we are so easy to please... our honeymoon really didn't cost very much at all, but we had the time of our life just getting away from it all and having a designated "us" time. So when trying to make anniversary plans, we were hoping to recreate the tropical, luxurious, pampered, get-away effect, but on the cheap cuz that's how we roll. A cruise seamed like the best value and a super easy vacation, so we're going to do it. We will take a 7-day Mexican Riviera cruise September 5th. A little late for our anniversay, but the tickets are cheaper then, and we get a paid holiday from work that week as well. So we will take off from Los Angeles and stop at Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, and back to L.A.

We weighed so many different options, places, prices, ideas.... we honestly labored over this decision for MONTHS. I don't know how we are ever going to decide to have a baby.