It's all fine, stuff happens sometimes. I've actually been in a bit of a rut roleplay-wise lately, so my posting hasn't really been up to par. Congratulations on your new kitten, though! And I hope your mom is feeling better/feels better soon. 
(Kittens are good...they're so cute...) 

Hm...outer conflict would definitely be good to get things moving. I bet we could come up with a bunch of these. The idea about the inn seems like it could be interesting. Running into a couple of soldiers or spies in search of them could happen at some point, but that might need some more planning. I'll think more about that one. 
Perhaps a couple of Fae encounters would be interesting as well? I doubt that there would be a ton of them in the human kingdom, though. Oh, we should have some situation where they have to pretend to be a married couple or something kind of awkward like that. Maybe it's one of their plans to avoid being caught and turned in when they enter one of the towns. 
Um...I swear I can be creative...I must be tired or something...I'll probably come up with something good after I sleep for a bit. I'm okay with a couple of time skips in between events as well, though. I have no idea how to make travel sequences sound interesting, so that would help a lot.