We try so hard to fight jet lag, but so far jet lag is undefeated. We woke up in the middle of the wee hours of the morning and watched some Netflix before falling back asleep at 6 AM before waking up at 10 AM. We probably could have kept sleeping but we knew if we did we miss a beautiful day in Geneva, so we got up. I went for a run along the lake while Jenn got ready for the day. 

After what feels like a lifetime, we've finally arrived at our first big trip of 2018. I remember when Jenn first put up the "Countdown to the French Open Trip" on our chalkboard in our apartment. It had just reached the 100-day prior mark. This morning we left our apartment in Newport Beach and grabbed a Lyft to take us to LAX. More then any other trip, we were probably the least prepared for this one. Although we've been meticulously counting down to it, the last month or so really snuck up on us. We were packing and printing out boarding passes right up to the point where Ulises picked us up in his Kia Optima. 

It's been a long time coming but Jenn and I have finally booked our big trip for 2018. Although at the time of this post we're a little over fifty days to our trip to Geneva, Paris, and Brussels we've booked another trip this year. We've gone back and forth quite a bit on where we wanted to go this year. All told we probably had three or four full itineraries build before we landed on this one. 

Jenn and I don't usually get each other anything for Valentines Day. Most years we have a nice quiet dinner at home and maybe some flowers sent to Jenn's office and that's the extent of it. Jenn changed the game this year. She booked us a weekend trip down to West Hollywood to have a nice weekend out on the town. 

Last summer we booked a trip to go to Switzerland in January of 2018. We had planned to do a week traveling through the Alps enjoying the freezing weather and snow. But when we got back from India in November our bodies had other things to say about that. We decided against jumping on a plane a month later and instead exchanged those plane flights for a trip in May.

After twenty-seven days, away from home, we’re now back home and I’d give anything to be starting this trip over again. If you said Joel you and Jenn can go to all of these places again tomorrow, I’d say give us ten minutes so we can pack our bags. Before we left on this trip I wasn’t sure we would have had as great of a time as we did.