On September 10th, Josh and I embarked on an adventure to Victoria to celebrate two years of togetherness.

Wake up call 4:45am.

We sped to get to the ferry on time, after google maps decided to route us a round about way. I hit a poor little bunny that was crossing the road. Sorry little guy. And then to my horror I almost stepped on a bird that was fluttering around and on its last life.

A rough start but things quickly looked up and we had a grand old time. We did the usual couple-like activities, such as eating ice cream while holding hands (pfft….not), buying & smoking a cuban cigar, drinking fine wine and eating good food and of course taking a million pictures.

*please see below the wall of text for all the pics* 

We went to Blue Fox for our one “splurge of a meal” which came highly recommended and it did not disappoint. I had this amazing house made champagne with guava juice topped off with a cinnamon sugary rim. Josh had some sort of Hazelnut Baileys iced coffee drink. Yummm! Our table was extremely close to these two ladies we were celebrating a birthday. It was so cute to hear them interacting, talking about their indifferences towards facebook. The one lady opened her birthday gift and the other lady was explaining why she bought everything for her. It was quite a special heart warming thing to witness.

We loved the overall feel of this friendly little city. We decided we would move there if we could, but we can’t, so I guess we actually wouldn’t…haha.

In a more serious note it was great to have some time to reflect on the past two years, our journey, what we’ve learned and be reminded of how thankful I am to have such a loving, patient and talented man in my life.  A while back I had a coworker come up to me and say “you and your bf look so happy in all your pictures” and it made me LOL. Sure yes, its true, we are happy, but I presumed to tell him we were in the middle of an argument…

*Keeping things real for just a moment*

Relationships can seem so perfect from the photos that get posted, but what you don’t see in people’s photos is their story and how they got to where they are. I often find myself gazing at other couple photos and I compare the feeling I feel while looking at a photo to my current relationship. Josh frequently reminds me that we are in our own lane, and that has really stuck with me and helped me in my comparison tendencies.

 You know that girl that “just knew he was the one”. This for sure has not been my journey, (but thats for a different day). I just felt lead to highlight how important I think it is to maintain a sense of reality when it comes to relationships especially when we are constantly reminded of how imperfect our lives are in social media. We start developing these unrealistic expectations of what happiness looks and feels like, and when it doesn’t happen, we are greatly disappointed.

Its important to highlight and celebrate the good times for sure, but not stop talking and telling people about the hard times too. This is how we spread “realness”. So from me to you, even though we look extra happy in photos, we aren’t perfect and we still are and always will be a work in progress. And somehow thats an exciting, raw and beautiful thing.

Until next time ❤

Liz