Trip Planning: Summer 2015

I love to plan trips and to do lots of research beforehand. I'm not someone who plans my trips down to the minute though. There are certain activities that have to be scheduled, but otherwise, I like to have a list of options so that we can decide what we want to do each day based on the weather and our mood.

This summer we're off to Southern California, and we're going to a few new places and some we've visited before. Although we've been to California a few times before, we've never gone to Disneyland. Our son is 12, so I've tasked him with researching the parks and deciding what rides he doesn't want to miss.

I'm a Michael Connelly fan, so as I read the most recent novel, I made a few notes about restaurants that the character Harry Bosch frequents. I've found addresses, so we may pop by if we have time.

I know that we'll go back to Universal for a day and we'll go on the Warner Bros. Studio tour again. We also have tickets to a Dodgers game. Otherwise, we've got lots of notes of things we can do.

In order to keep everything organized, I purchased a presentation folder from the office supply store. The cover can be changed out for each trip. I tasked my husband with creating a label for the spine. 

For now I'm keeping things like airline and hotel booking confirmations, addresses, etc. in the page protectors. 

When we're travelling, I can use the page protectors to keep memorabilia like park maps and tickets, and I can also throw any journalling I do into the page protectors. I love this organization idea that I got from @more_organised on Instagram.

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The word art on the photograph is Cathy Zielske's Boxed Type Summer Brushes and Stamps that I added on my phone using the Letterglow app.

Summer Projects

I'm a teacher. That means that I'm super busy from September to June, but then I have the summer to rejuvenate. That's when I find myself the most creative. 

I'm also a night owl, so the fact that I don't have to work the next morning is helpful. 

Some of the projects I'm working on are new, but many are on-going or projects that I haven't spent time on since last summer (or sometimes longer than that). 

Here's my project list for the summer of 2015: 

1. Trip Planning - Since we're heading to Southern California this summer, trip planning needs to be a priority.

2. Work on my son's album - I need to document his grade 6 year.

3. Finish up the Us: The Abridged Version album - this project got pushed off to the side, and I need to take the time to finish the album. 

4. Update the MLB Quest album - this can wait until later this summer, but Jason went to a game in Philadelphia, and we're going to another Dodgers game, so I will have two pages to do. I also need to get after Jason about some of his jobs for the album.

5. Project Life - I haven't done anything for 2014 or 2015. Yikes - that feels overwhelming. I'm planning to do monthly spreads, and I'm going to start with this year and try to keep up at the end of each month. 

6. Work on my son's art room - we need to re-finish the ceilings, paint the walls, put in new flooring, etc., but I hope that we can start the school year with a proper space for our budding artist to create.

7. Update our anniversary album - for our 10th anniversary, I made an album for my husband highlighting each year of our marriage. It shouldn't take me long to update this album.

I'll be more detailed about each of these projects in upcoming posts.