Virginia & Washington DC

Caleb and I made it to Virginia and back and we still like each other so bonus :P It was a wonderful trip. I felt so rested, I met a portion of his family and I really liked them. Caleb told me that they liked me also which is awesome. It is so hard meeting new people for me because it takes me a while to warm up, but when I do it is hard to get me to shut up. Granted I don't babble all the time nonstop but once I am comfortable being around people I feel more like myself.

The drive back and forth was not that bad at all. My Honda made it with no issues, even though I left the interior light on overnight (gotta love my new battery). I ended up putting roughly 1200 miles on the car and now I have the confidence that my car can survive and make a road trip.

His family was so warm and friendly just like Caleb. The interaction and outcome of this trip greatly lessens my anxiety over meeting his mother, brother and sister in law next week. Granted I am still nervous because it is new, but I am thinking positive thoughts and know that things will be okay.

So I took on two states this trip Virginia and DC. I am so happy that we got to go to DC. It was so wonderful and beautiful. Being there stirred so many emotions in me, happiness, awe, anger, sadness, hope, I can go on. It was wonderful being there with Caleb. I am happy to say that we traveled well together. It is great that we are both so low maintenance and easy going (which can be difficult at times when making decisions since we are both up for anything).

While in Washington we walked around National Mall and we saw the following:
The Capital Building

War World II Memorial

Jefferson Memorial

FDR Memorial Park

Vietnam Memorial

Lincoln Memorial

The White House aka Obama's Crib

Washington at Night, beautiful end to a wonderful day :)


We went shopping, sight seeing and just had low key fun with his family. It makes me a little sad that at this point in time my mom is being angry and not wanting to talk to me but I continue to have hope that she will come around. Until she does I am going to enjoy getting to know his family and spending time with my guy. Hopefully next year he and I can drive to meet Traleathea in Texas. We spoke about that while driving back to Kentucky so depending on his time off it may happen. He gets 3 or 4 weeks off a year, but since 2 of those weeks are already determined it is really a week off.

We are also planning on going to Seattle for a vacation in July hopefully. He gets a mandatory week off roughly around the time of his birthday so my hope is that we can go there to celebrate his birthday (turning the big 30) and this will be another state for me to visit that I haven't so far.

Well I guess that is all for my update. It was so wonderful that I am sad to be back. The only thing making it worthwhile to come back is being back with my little Bud Bud (oh and my awesome friends too :)

Next week I will give you an update on how Wisconsin and meeting the family goes. I am sure it will be fine, like Caleb told me once, just be myself and they will like me. Well, until I write in you again....