Honeymoon in Cape Town? Say no more.
When my husband and I were dating, he mentioned wanting to spend our honeymoon in Cape Town. Once I did some research on Cape Town, I was hooked too. Who wouldn’t jump at the opportunity to go to the adventure capital of the world?
As I moved from America to Uganda and we planned our wedding it looked like an immediate honeymoon wasn’t in the cards. I gave him a hard time about this because I told him on multiple occasions I would get married under a mango tree as long as it meant we would have the opportunity to go on a honeymoon. After over a year of long-distance dating, I eagerly desired this time together before we began real life. A time to go away with my husband and build a bond as husband and wife.
This didn’t happen.
I eventually stopped pestering my husband about going on a honeymoon. A honeymoon wouldn’t magically change anything and I needed God to change my attitude and heart to one of contentment instead. But then on Christmas morning, he handed me a present. I opened it to see a book staring back at me. A look of confusion flashed across my face because it was a book we already had in our library and then he whispered, “Open it.”
A book with more than I bargained for.
Inside the pages of the book, a piece of paper peeked out. I flipped to the page and opened the paper to see tickets to Cape Town tucked inside. If you know me, it shouldn’t shock you that those pesky tears sprang up.
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My husband surprised me with tickets to Cape Town on Christmas! You can imagine the guilt I felt when I handed him his Christmas present – a book sans tickets to an exotic location.
The best part? I only had three weeks to wait until departing on our grand adventure.
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Before my husband surprised me with tickets to Cape Town, the Lord had already given me a word for 2018. Live. I knew Cape Town would be the perfect place to kick off “living.”
In 2018, I want to write even more in my blog which I have sadly neglected this past year. I haven’t done much living as I settled into marriage and a completely new life in a foreign land. But as Henry Thoreau reminds me, “It is vain to sit down and write when you have not stood up to live.”
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Way to go Ash! I’m glad you guys had that honeymoon, it looked like a great place to visit and a great starting point to LIVE! 🙂 Love you!
Me too! Honestly, it DID change me in a lot of ways. Now, I want to travel the world as much as possible. 🙂 Love you too!