Well one last blog to say that I made it home safely. Thank you all for supporting me this summer through keeping up with my activities and praying for me! The last week of my trip was busy, and work lasted right up until the end but it was a great experience. I am so happy that I went and that I didn't allow myself to miss out on the opportunity because of fear. Just goes to show what God can do when you stop making excuses and living in fear and instead choose to trust Him and His guidance. There's probably much more to say on my trip once I process through the last 9.5 weeks but that will take time I'm sure. Looking forward to the opportunity to discuss it with some of you!

In other news...was fortunate enough to skip my 3rd flight on Thursday to Portland and instead get picked up in DC by my mom! Great opportunity to go home, visit family, visit the wedding venue, and see Whitney's cafe! I was getting pretty giddy the last week of my trip thinking about it all. I know, me giddy. Rare occurrence. But oh was it ever happening.

So we drive up to the venue yesterday and my mom, Aimee, and I are taking a tour of the grounds. Both my mom and I are taking many pictures so that I can show it all to Phil when I get back to Oregon. I was feeling pretty bad that he was missing out on it all. We then head back to the main office area as my dad had just arrived (he had an important meeting in the morning and was meeting us up there for the tasting with the chef). After greeting my dad outside, we start to head inside but I stop the girl leading us around and say, wait, you were going to show us one more thing out back. She hesitates, my dad just turns and walks into the inn, and my mom says, can we go inside and down the stairs and then back out? Pointless extra steps if you ask me but I bought the fact that she wanted some more pictures inside the inn...it is my mom after all.
So we walk into the main inn and I'm talking and standing there and all of a sudden my dad says, I like this room the best. He pointed to an area of the porch just to my right which I had already seen and in my head I was thinking, really? Why? And I turn and look and nearly fall over as Phil is sitting there on one of the chairs. I was told my face was pretty priceless. And I was speechless for hours. Literally speechless. I find out not only did all the staff at Full Moon know of this planned rendezvous but pretty much everyone everywhere did but me. What a wonderful surprise. Apparently set in motion the moment I entered through the doors at Dulles Airport 9 weeks ago...I blame the jet lag and very opposite time schedule for my COMPLETE cluelessness. But, complete cluelessness did make for a great surprise...much thank you to all who made that happen.

On to the rest of a great and much needed weekend with friends and family. Hope everyone is well and I look forward to catching up on your summers soon!