In the past few months I have been all over North and Central America, and I must say I really enjoy the traveling life. I have been to...
West Palm Beach on a crazy Chicago to Florida road trip with my best friend Amy...
New Orleans for a crazy nights of fun before leaving on our spring break cruise (Jessica did have fun, I promise, and the beads were thrown at us with absolutely no "effort" on our parts, I also promise)...
The gorgeous beaches of Mexico, where $1 tequila shots will sneak up on you unexpectedly and lay you out flat...
Beach shack bars, where you too can be serenaded by a man who will not take no for an answer...
Las Escobas (the waterfalls) near Puerto Barrios, Guatemala...
The surreal blue waters of Belize...
A white sand beach on a tiny island near Belize, and yes, my friends are crazy, and yes we have a Barbie and yes there is a very long story behind that which, trust me, is hilarious...
Crazy Cozumel, which is exactly like Miami except for the trucks of policia with machine guns in the streets and the hazy threat of being kidnapped on the horizon...
And a week and a half after returning from the sunshine (after Joshua had already taken a quick trip to Minneapolis) I tagged along with him on his business trip to Boston so I could eat a lobster...
and more importantly...
I was able to catch up with my beloved family, who I have not seen since Thanksgiving and who are all unbelievably funny and cute and I really tried to fit them in my luggage for the flight back to Chicago, but Southwest Airlines said no, sorry, you exceeded your carry-on limit. And then I cried.
We are headed back to Massachusetts in 3 weeks for my brother Jared's senior play, and after that I will be back on the east coast in June, July, and August (2 weddings and a sailing trip off the coast of Maine, can we say I am a lucky girl to be living this life?!). I have another wedding in Tampa in September and another in Massachusetts in October, and in the middle of those two we have a big trip "planned" for September - we are deciding between two totally different vacations and haven't decided which one it will be. The biggest hurdle - getting my time off from work - has already been accomplished. Night shift girls love to travel? That should be our floor's motto. We currently have no vacation time available through the middle of October.
I'm sure I will continue to post here sporadically and I can't promise that won't mean June. I should probably start picking up overtime shifts to pay for the plane tickets that will allow me to actually experience all these vacations.
Actually, I am turning 25 in three weeks and I'm sure I will have something to post about my quarter life crisis shortly.
