Mission Accomplished

For the past two months, I have been plotting and planning to surprise Zach for the quinquennial (look it up) birthday he had yesterday.

It turns out that planning a surprise vacation is the perfect activity when you are recuperating from chemo and surgery—it can be done almost entirely from one's couch.

In my case it was extra-perfect, combining as it did two of my favorite activities: planning stuff (yes, I'm a dork) and making Zach happy.

So here we are, thousands of miles from home, in breathtakingly beautiful (not to mention cool and dry) British Columbia.

Details to follow, although perhaps not until we return next week. In the meantime, rest assured that we are both very relaxed and very happy—and one of us was very surprised.