Our World Travels...

I was looking through our travel blog, as I enjoy doing every few months or so and I realized that since having our baby in December of 2011 we have not made a post about any of our travels. While we did not go internationally in 2012, we did take a few trips around America, so I thought that I would spend a few  minutes sharing some photos from 2012. We are planning on taking a 3 week international trip next  month, so stay tuned for pics, anecdotes and other cool bits about our Spring trip overseas with baby- set for April 2013. And without further ado here is our collection of trips from 2012... The Many Firsts of 2012 Rose's first trip ever- the ride home from the hospital First ride in the Ergo baby carrier and first trip to Earthfare- our grocery store First Trip to the museum- Discovery Place in Uptown Charlotte, NC First Hike First Hockey Game Eric Had a Few Adventures of His Own! Eric Touring a wind far...

To celebrate Eric graduating from Northwestern with both his MBA and his MEM we decided that we needed to take a trip to celebrate! The only obstacle we faced was a lack of funds, so while the initial planning begat an itinerary that included Southeast Asia and China, our budget plotted otherwise. We then put that trip to the back burner and hit the drawing board again. After a bit more research and a few more scrapped itineraries, we decided that we would take a 20 day trip to Guatemala. The flights and food are cheap and they have lakes, Mayan pyramid ruins and jungle, so tons to do. We bought our plane tickets for less than what we would pay to go across the US and started making reservations and reading our travel books in anticipation. At this point we had about 3 months till Eric graduated and we moved to Charlotte, North Carolina where Eric got a job in his ideal field of energy. We were busy with plans and saying goodbye to Chicago when we got 2 tickets to see Oprah i...