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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

The New Adventure


The Airplane of Adventure
This airplane symbolizes the beginning of an adventure.  During our one week of face-to-face dating (that's a story for another blog), my now husband, Andrew, and I went to Lake Worth in Texas where we assembled this plane.  We did a pretty good job, if I must say so myself, since the instructions used engineering and aviation terms, and neither of us are engineer-ial or aviators of any sort.  We then spent time flying the plane in the park where I pulled a Charlie Brown and got it stuck in a tree.  That probably accounts for its slightly damaged nature.  In this midst of this goofy fun, was when Andrew proposed and I accepted.  Thus, began the adventure of marriage for us.  And, oh what an adventure it has been.  I would not say it has been a ride off into the sunset adventure that all the chick flicks promise.  It has been filled with economic struggles, a failed business, yucky jobs, trips to the ER, family misunderstandings and good times too.  I think the fact that we looked on all of these things, the good and the tough, as adventures - not always the fun Indian Jones type of adventures, but adventures nonetheless.  And the plane has remained with us as a reminder that we embarked on this adventure together - another key element to surviving the not-so-fun adventures that come your way. 

Now the plane is sitting on the dashboard of our car as we set out for a new adventure as Andrew returns to school and we head west to California. I know we will encounter difficulties and have a lot of fun at the same time.  I also know that the adventures we have already encountered will help us weather any new storms that come out way.  Most importantly, I know, and Andrew knows, we are on this adventure together. 

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