Wanderlust

We haven't blogged in a while because we've been sitting and ticking down the days to our next trip! Here's the day by day plan for the trip: September 26 - Fly out of MSP at 12pm September 27 - Land in Paris at 7am. Explore! September 28 - Paris Exploring September 29 - Maybe Mont St. Michel? Maybe Versailles? Maybe more Paris? September 30 - Fly to Fes, Morocco at 1:30pm. Explore Medina in the evening. October 1 - Fes all day. Cooking class or small tour maybe? October 2 - Take a bus to Chefchaouen, explore small Moroccan mountain town. October 3 - Enjoy small town in the morning, get back to Fes and explore more. October 4 - More Fes, then fly to Lisbon at 4:30pm. October 5 - Lisbon day October 6 - Maybe rent car or motorbike and drive along coast? October 7 - Take train to Porto and see a smaller Portugal town October 8 - Fly back to Paris at 8:30am, more Paris. October 9 - Fly back to MSP at 10:30am. Phew! That's kind of a lot of traveling and mo...

So it's the night before we leave and I can't really wrap my mind around the fact that it's finally here. We planned this whole trip out soooooo long ago that it never really seemed real and sort of still doesn't. Quick recap: We will get to MSP airport around 2pm and take off at 4pm for Chicago. We will fly out of Chicago to Taiwan at 12am. Then we will fly from Taiwan at 6am Tuesday morning (time changes are insane) and finally land in Bangkok at 11am on Tuesday January 2. Check out the map below. Today was kind of a rough day for me. We did our last tanning session yesterday and I burned myself in a bunch of spots because I'm an idiot. I didn't sleep well last night because of that (like 4 hours of sleep). We drove up to Alexandria to visit Lacey's mom's family which was great buuuuut we had to drop off our cat, Loki. Lacey's mom is doing us a huge favor and is cat-sitting him while we're gone. Loki is our little cat baby so it was kind...