Before we moved down to Grenada, Jared and I toured a couple of houses in Utah Valley's popular Parade of Homes. Mostly we just walked around with our mouths hanging open, guessing what each home owner did for a living. "CEO of McDonald's," "inventor of cell phones," "Michael Jordan," and "emperor of the world" were popular speculations. We did walk through one house, however, that seemed to be more on a normal scale and that seemed to be perfect for a family with five or six kids. We fell in love with the enormous kitchen and the naturally lit yoga/exercise studio. When we got back to our apartment, Jared had me find and bookmark the house on the Parade of Homes website, and we said, "One day, when we have our lives together in a dozen or so years, let's get one like that." The house was titled La Sagesse on the website.
In my head it was an in-our-dreams house, but when we moved to Grenada and discovered that our favorite beach around was also called La Sagesse, well . . . it's meant to be, right? Also, Google says that La Sagesse means wisdom in French, so there's also that.
I'm not sure how "wise" it is to drive half an hour to a remote beach when storm clouds are sweeping across the sky, but we did it anyway. Despite getting poured on after our picnic lunch, the water was warm and there were some awesome waves, so we spent last Saturday afternoon getting pounded and accidentally snorting down salt water and getting too-much-sun migraines. Those are always the best Saturdays though, so even though our legs still bear evidence of itchy sand-flea bites, I would go again without hesitation.
Happy winter!
p.s. Jared's family is coming to party with us in Grenada April 3-10, so those who have mentioned that they might come visit this term, just pick some days that aren't those days and we should be good to go :)