Delaware

Well, it was another crazy week last week. I guess it's true when they say your life only gets busier the older you get. Aaron started school and work (he's such a hard worker) and I worked on internship things. I had a conference I had to attend about vitamin D. It was really interesting, but unfortunately I hadn't been sleeping very well and I left early both days because I was falling asleep. The parts I was there for were interesting and sometimes very much over my head (mostly when the speaker would skip over slides or when they had made a particularly busy slide that made it difficult to assess the meaning). I had no idea that they could do a two day conference on one vitamin! I enjoyed it though and it captured Aaron's interest enough that we could discuss it.

Friday, we decided to hit the road for Delaware. We were going to get at it Labor Day weekend but school was holding us up. Aaron, being as busy as he was left all trip planning into what he thought were capable hands. I cleaned the apartment, made oatmeal raisin cookies for the drive, packed our clothes, picked out various points of interest we would like to see, and forgot a vital part of traveling anywhere in the east these days (uploading the Delaware maps to our gps). Well, we decided that people had been traveling without GPS for a while and so we could do the same. Well, let's just say that out of five points of interest, we only found two! So much for our abilities. Of course that failure was probably caused by the inconvenience of our map only showing major roads for few cities.

Ah, the first point of interest. You may have noticed the new added high point of Delaware on our list. This was indeed our entire purpose of going to Delaware and so it was definitely a good thing it was one of the two points we found. This disasterous climb took us through winding roads and over developed mole hills. The summit was so high we despaired that we hadn't brought oxygen with us! Okay so I hope you realized the sarcasm was pretty thick there. Ebright Azimuth is all of 447.85 feet (according to the sign). It's the lowest point in the US besides Florida and DC. The only danger came from the traffic behind us as we were trying to take pictures.

The second point of interest we found was Little Italy in Wellington. It was fun to walk around. We stopped at a bakery and got pizza bread for an early lunch and some biscotti. It was really good! I had never had biscotti before but Aaron told me it was some of the best he's tasted. We saw this sign that we thought was absolutely hilarious for an advertisement! Well, even though we failed at finding the other places we wanted to see (a revolutionary war battle sight, a home where George Washington planned strategy, and a dairy creamery) we enjoyed each other's company! It was fun! Aaron is such a sweetheart and I'm glad he wasn't disappointed by my inability to plan a trip with the same thoroughness as he is able to do.

For those of you, especially my dad, who wonder what Aaron and I are going to do about those highest of US peaks; here is our plan. As this is a lifetime goal, not a five year goal, we hope to progressively become better and more avid at hiking. When we get to those peaks that take two or three days to complete, hopefully we will be prepared. We are also hoping that we will be able to afford the expertise of a guide who knows the trails. Who knows, maybe we'll even get to the point where we will be able to hike Mt McKinley in Alaska. After that. . . on to Mt Kilimanjaro in Africa !!!! (just kidding. . . or maybe not).