Sedona Revisited

Two years ago, Toby and I enjoyed five days of R&R in Sedona without the girls. Well, four days of R&R and one amazing and grueling day up and down the Grand Canyon, but anyway, it was a memorable trip. Our lives were chaotic at the time--after our trip, we flew back east to pick up the girls and then turned right around and moved to Los Angeles. We spent much of our time in Sedona that year discussing our future.

Two years later, Toby and I finally headed out for another kid-free vacation. Again, we traveled to Sedona. This time, it was to celebrate Mike and Diane's wedding. (Mike later wrote on Facebook that it was "hands down best weekend of my life." I love happy beginnings!) The incredible red rock Sedona views looked the same, but I couldn't help but note the differences in our lives since our last trip. How funny it is that we thought we had a clue about our future then. We didn't imagine that two years later we would be living in Boulder for the second year in a row and or that Toby would have started a new business. And of course on this trip, we never imagined that we'd come home to find the mountains behind us on fire.

I think it's important to have visions for the future, but this trip was a good reminder that, as much as you can plan in life, the future is always a mystery.