So why is this place so important to me? Well, I know I talked about it in my first post but I've been looking at this picture, above,  for a while and realized that it has more meaning for me. Not just because of the place but also because of that year and all the things that went on from there on out.
I'm getting ahead of myself. You see, my husband and I had a crappy honeymoon.. No, I mean that quite literally. We were pretty poor and decided to just go to a bed and breakfast on the other side of the border from us. It sounded cute and quaint.... Meh was a pretty good word to describe it. It was a drafty old house, cute but, again, drafty (which doesn't bode well in the winter time). They advertised a whirlpool tub, that sounded romantic. Nope, it was very literally a tub (so no romantic baths for two) and the jets came out at such a rate that it bruised up my legs. Then my husband of two days came down with the flu, a horrible flu. Did I mention our honeymoon was only for a weekend? Needless to say it was just a horrible horrible start. Good things came from it but that really wasn't how we wanted to remember it all.
The plan came about a few months later that we would save up and have a honeymoon-redux and go to Disneyland. My husband had never been and I grew up in California so it seemed like a no-brainer. February of 2004 came about sooner than we expected and we were off for 2 weeks of fun in the sun. It was great road tripping with him across country and experiencing new sites with him. He LOVED seeing my face light up as we walked across the street to Disneyland. I was a child all over again. He made it clear that he really wanted to do this again, but next time, we should go to Disney World.. Just so we could experience it all.
Now I know I said all of this before, but the more I got to thinking about it, the more I realized how impact full that year was. One month after this picture was taken we moved back to his hometown. Two months from that picture I got hired at my current company (WHICH I LOVE) and began a career. Seven months after that picture was taken I found out I was pregnant with our first child.
Next May I'll get to hold true to the promise I made to my (relatively new) husband 10 years before. We'll go to Disney World and have a new picture taken...One that shows how we've grown together, how we've added to our family and how we're all still children at heart.