never too late

today i wanted to show someone pictures of our trip and thought....i'll just go to our blog! and how sad to see we never updated it. but i know why. we couldn't bring ourselves to do it...to admit that it was really over. every day i have flashbacks. it starts to rain here and i remember the grandma and her granddaughter on the train to the farmstay who called ahead to the station so that when we got off the train, there was an extra umbrella waiting for us with their family. or, i call UPS to schedule a pickup for my job and hear the exact same tone that we heard over and over again on every train station loudspeaker. i put on my worn out jeans that i had on every single day of our trip and think about looking at them every morning and saying 'gosh steph, i dont know about you but i think i'll wear these dirty stretched out jeans today. they look fabulous!'. i hear someone speaking broken english and think about the only friendly guy we met in venice who said (referring to his friend) "his english is not very good looking".

obviously i don't want to think of it as over. i'd like to say we are only in a holding pattern until we can go back. so, until then i dont know about you steph but we might as well still use this blog to keep track of our adventures together or otherwise since we live apart now. i don't want it to just sit here unused anymore!