Let’s time travel to August 2017: I had just taken the Tennessee Bar Exam to become licensed as an attorney, and I was due to start my new job in early September. Matt and I were just two weeks away from getting married! So we did something spontaneous—we decided to take what I termed a “pre-wedding, post-bar, mini-moon” to Chicago celebrate everything that was happening to us. We would depart four months later for our real honeymoon to New Zealand, which you can read about extensively on this blog. Matt pulled out all the stops to impress me that August—he booked us a swanky room at the Omni in downtown…