Well, Dan and I got married on June 9th of this year. It was a gorgeous, perfect, family centered day. We had an outdoor ceremony at our incredible family friend's house, and an outdoor reception. It was a blast and a blessing to have our family and friends with us on that day.
The day after the wedding, Dan and I helped to clean up from the evening's festivities, finished packing my stuff up in the rental truck, and headed off to Ohio. We drove straight through (well, Dan did) and arrived at our house around 2 a.m. on June 11th. I immediately started decorating and making the house our home.
Dan went back to work the following Monday and I started Graduate School at Wright State University the day after! I really just went into the office a few days that week to get ready for my research trip to Wisconsin. Yes, two weeks after our wedding, I headed up to Wisconsin for two weeks. I got to do a bit of forest sampling and learned a lot about the plant life up in WI. The trip was fun and interesting but I was very glad to get home. Since then, I have started classes and begun my preliminary research for my thesis.
At the end of July, Dan and I got to go up to Washington, near Tacoma. He had to go up there for business, but I was able to tag along. It was the best trip of my entire life! Although Dan had to work most weekdays, we had three full weekends and lots of evenings to explore the area.
The first weekend we were there, we drove around and stumbled on this amazing beach on the South of Puget Sound. It was absolutely beautiful and we had a great time just looking around and taking pictures.
We then found this amazing park! I was BLOWN AWAY by the size of the trees and how pre-historic everything looked! I was in heaven!
Later in the trip, we got to visit Greg in Seattle! Greg was Dan's best man and had just moved to the Pacific Northwest. We had so much fun in Seattle and got to visit Pike Place Market, the Gum Wall, and we even got to take a ferry ride. It was really neat to see the whole city from that perspective.
Then we explored a temperate rainforest in the Olympic National Forest. Oh my goodness! Temperate Rainforest is one of the most rare ecosystems in the whole world...and we got to hang out in one all day! The trees were so big and beautiful and everything was dripping with moss. Amazing! Later that day, we drove to the Pacific Ocean. It was the first time that either of us had ever seen it. It was really cold.
Out last big adventure in the Pacific Northwest was to Mt. Rainier National Park. We had to drive over 40 minutes on a dirt/gravel road just to get to the park. But it was so worth it! We decided to do a 7 mile hike up to a fire-look-out. The hike was difficult but soooo worth it. It was an absolute blast!
Since our Pacific Northwest Trip, things have been going well! I have been taking classes, doing lots of reading, and just going through grad school. Dan has been working, and doing the AF thing. We just started playing in an indoor volleyball league and that has been a really good time. We are going home to Maryland this weekend for Aaron and Shannon's wedding! We are excited to see both of our families and our friends!
I will have another update soon!
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