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" Dan and are finally back from our getaway. instead of dealing with the hassel and expense of air travel, we decided to drive to Cape May, New Jersey, a lovely little Victorian beach-side town at the southern tip of the Garden State. And I have to tell you, it was fantastic. Dan and I had such a great time, relaxing on the beach during the evenings, going out to great restaurants at night. Dan and I have both felt like this summer was stressful\u2014the basement remodel, Dan&amp;#039;s looking for a new job, his anticipation of teaching in the fall. I was even more stressed out because last week, my best friends&amp;#039; (they&amp;#039;re twins) father died, which was incredibly upsetting for me. I&amp;#039;d known him all my life and I&amp;#039;ve always been close with the entire family. And I was just heartbroken for my friends and their mother. To make it bittersweet, my friends both just recently had their first child (I know...twins who each had their first a month apart!), so it was so odd to be at the funeral of their father while there was also so much joy over their babies. Of course the whole experience left me feeling numb and contemplative about life and death. Hence my much needed getaway. Anyhoo, enough the deep thoughts. As always, Dan and I love vacation because not only do we disconnect from our very busy lives, but we always reconnect on vacation. Of course there&amp;#039;s vacation sex. And romantic dinners. And just being together makes you bring up weighty topics, think about the future, etc. I always come back from a getaway feeling like I feel in love with Dan all over again. Reason number 562 as to why Dan&amp;#039;s the greatest husband ever: He drove me to a waterpark! I LOVE waterslides like nobody&amp;#039;s business. And I&amp;#039;ve been hankering to go on one this summer. So Dan found out about the waterpark before hand and we drove further up the beach to go. It was so much fun. I felt sort of dumb...I was the only 30 something on the slides without a kid! But I didn&amp;#039;t care. I loved every minute of it! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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