looking forward to a vacation

Rudy and I officially got the time off for a long road trip to visit with his grandparents in Wyoming. We will be leaving the weekend of Memorial Day and will be gone up to two weeks. We've arranged it so our schedule will be really flexible. With how busy things are at work, I'm really looking forward to this trip and not having firm plans. It should be an adventure since I'm not good at going where the wind takes me. The idea of not knowing exactly where we are going to sleep at night or what we are going to do each day kind of freaks me out. We have a basic idea of what the trip will be. We will leave either Friday after work or sometime Saturday, depending on how good we are about packing ahead of time. If it works out, we will probably make our way to Milwaukee and stay with friends the first night. We are planning to take camping gear, so if we happen upon a campground that looks inviting, we may spend a night in the wilderness, otherwise it will probably be cheep motels. Rudy is brining his laptop with an updated navigation program and a GPS unit, so that puts me a little more at ease knowing that we can look ahead to find food, shelter, and gas stations. Along the way, we want to stop at Mount Rushmore and Walldrug. We will go through Yellowstone, the Badlands, and hopefully Bear Tooth Pass, if it is open by the time we get there. Once in Wyoming, we will be staying with Rudy's grandparents for a few days. They live near Jackson Hole and his Grandpa and Uncle work on a Ranch near there. The whole trip should be really interesting for me since I've never been out that direction.


Originally we had wanted to go at the end of the summer around Labor Day. Our anniversary is September 8th, so it would kind of be a 1 year anniversary celebration. But I've learned to deal with the fact that sometimes things just don't work out the way we plan them. Rudy's Grandparents recently bought a house in Arizona and are just waiting to sell their house in Wyoming to make the move official. Rather than take the chance of them not being there by the end of the summer, we decided to go early. This will actually work out better in the long run anyway. It can still be a celebration. We became an official couple six years ago in May, so thats something. Also, I had said if I was pregnant at the end of the summer, I might not want to go. I think we might take a weekend trip to Chicago (or if I'm not pregnant yet, maybe a trip to Six Flags Great America) for our anniversary in September.

Speaking of the pregnancy effort. As it stands right now, I've been on Metformin for just over a month and no period yet. My OBGYN said it may take a couple months to bring back a monthly cycle. I see her again in a couple weeks and I'm betting that I'll end up on Clomid either in April, May, or June. Since most people don't get pregnant in the first month or two on Clomid, the earliest I should have to worry about morning sickness if the Clomid works is mid to late summer. I'm so impatient. I keep hoping that by some miracle I end up pregnant without all the extra help. That is still a slim possibility. Women with PCOS may ovulate without knowing it, and the Metformin increases that chance. I'm doubtful that I will get that lucky, but I still take a cheep home pregnancy test every month or so, just in case. On the bright side, I am down 8 lbs now. I'm trying for another 4 before my next appointment, so that gives me something to focus on for now. 

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