Well hello there, it’s Tuesday again! And I’m back!

When my girls and I planned our trip to Minneapolis back in October, we had no idea that the city would undergo such heartbreak and tragedy by the time we visited, and in January I wasn’t sure if we would still be able to go.

For us, visiting the Cities is a routine thing ~ a 2.5ish hour drive that we often do as a day trip. This time, however, we had TWO concerts to attend and a whole lot of adventuring to do in between ~ we planned to make it a multi-day vacation and have been eagerly anticipating this trip for months.

But then, while watching the news in absolute horror in January, all I could think was, “How do you reconcile the frivolity of a vacation with what seems like a civil war?” and was readying myself for concerts to be canceled and us to stay home.

Then I started reading more about how many small businesses were hurting, how the tourism economy in the area was suffering, and I was trying to figure out how to still make it work … and if the entire plan still made sense at all. But the concerts weren’t canceled and our Airbnb hosts still wanted us to come, so we decided to take our tourism dollars and compassion and proceed as planned.

I’m so glad we did.

I love these words from Jess Craven ~ her newsletter showed up in my inbox just as I was finishing this up and I had to include it:

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