This blog post about our honeymoon in Scandinavia was a long time coming. I think I’ve been intimidated to write it because I was going to have to go through 1,000 photos from this trip and pick out a few to share here. And I also have to condense two weeks worth of activities into some highlights from the trip. But I’ve finally done it. It’s not easy summarizing a two week, three country trip into one blog post!

In 2016, Travis and I got married. Our original honeymoon plans were to go to the Greek islands. That plan fell through because of political reasons on that side of the world at the time. That’s actually why we went to Greece, Turkey, and Italy a couple of years later. Even though we needed to change our plans for our honeymoon, we still wanted to go out of the country – that wasn’t a question. We landed on a trip to Scandinavia, which included Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Way different than a trip to the beaches of Greece!

This month I read a library book, a book club book, two audiobooks, and three advanced reader copies (ARCs). I was putting off reading some older ARCs I got a while ago but I decided to just get through all of them. I really liked the books actually!

I know many people whose favorite month of the year is October. October is usually when the weather starts to actually cool down in Indiana, after the second summer we had in September. Here is what’s on my radar this month:

I’m not a whiskey or bourbon person. Even so, I didn’t hesitate to get excited when my in-laws invited my husband and me to go on a weekend trip to Bardstown, Kentucky. If you don’t know, Bardstown is home to the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. There are several distilleries in and around Bardstown.

Even though I don’t like drinking whiskey or bourbon (or scotch or brandy, etc), I still enjoy learning about the process and seeing the distilleries. Usually the grounds and buildings are really pretty and sometimes they are just very interesting.

While there, we also went to a couple of local wineries. I think those wineries were very small because it didn’t seem like the wine was sold anywhere other than at the wineries themselves. This wasn’t like Michigan or Napa wineries, which made them very unique.

In September, I tried to read a nonfiction book of short stories… it didn’t work out so well. I did not finish the book. So I went back to fiction! Until I read another nonfiction book, or I actually listened to it on audio. This second nonfiction book was really interesting! Read on to see which one it is.