Vacation Planning

When Audra and I started dating in March of 2013, we talked about going to DC because we both love museums. I'd been in elementary school and Audra had been in college but we both wanted to go back for at least a weekend, likely more.
We did not take that trip after the 2016 election.
Then 2020 hit, and a mostly-indoor trip was off the table.
Then Ripley was born, and a trip of any kind was definitely off the table.
In the hospital this past December, one of Rip's doctors told us she spent the morning after Election Day crying at her desk and she joked, "Maybe 2028 will be the year for your trip."

* Yesterday, as I write this, was actually the 12th anniversary of me asking Audra out!