ma and pa head up to the hills

We left Thursday evening to Big Pine, CA. for our backpacking adventure with Luisa and Jeff near King's Canyon. Before heading out, I sort of panicked because everyone started giving me contradictory advice about doctors/midwives, so I went ahead and made another appointment with a different recommended doctor. The advice doc gave me before our trip: "Don't do vigorous exercising at high altitudes and drink lots of water". Not too helpful less than an hour before we leave for our backpacking trip at 10,000+ feet. But Damo came to the rescue again, taking much of the heavy load and making me drink (and thus, pee) every ten minutes. It was a fabulous five days of nature, quiet, and pooping in a hole in the ground. It was nice to sit with our new news, laying in the tent at 8:30 waiting for sleep and having our first conversations about how to rearrange the house, baby names (which we aren't discussing with others), doctors, jobs, worries, and now, much excitement. I still feel great (knock on wood) and while in the mountains, I started worrying that it was all a dream and maybe I'm not really preggo. But then, I still haven't started the 'ol period, so that kept me going. It was nice to not be thinking of the pregnancy every five minutes, and now it's starting to feel like the real thing.