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I just came back from a week-filled vacation. I was in Savannah, GA fwith my mom visiting my best friend Cait rom Friday to Sunday then I left Monday with mom & the family for Key West until Wed. It was a lot of driving. But it was so good to see my old friend and hang with her like no time has passed between us & it was so nice to get to spend time with my uncle, aunt & their two kids together. I think I'm getting to the age where I actually appreciate the time spent with my family. Considering my definition of a family is severly dissheveled. When we were in the keys there was not one thing there that could bother me. Not school or any of my concerns. It was like when you were little and you just had pure fun. It's so hard for me to remember what that is because it has been so long since I've had it. It's the kind of fun you have when you have not one thing on your mind other than what you are doing at that exact moment. I wasn't the leader of this trip, mom & uncle were which made it nice. When they said we're going, I went. This is really different for me because normally I am doing the directing of trips and all that. I just sat back and whatever happened, happened.
In Georgia we went all around downtown which I love to do because I adore that city. We searched for some dance studios for Cait to go teach at so she can get back into dance & get some free classes. I really hope she follows through with those. We ate out pretty much every meal & it was nice because all the places we went were so cute. Mom & Bob have a house on Tybee Island, it's off the coast in Savannah. So I slept there the 1st night. The next day the air conditioner broke. It was SOO hot in the house. I thought Georgia, a little more North may have some cool weather... NO. So then the 2nd night I stayed at Cait's house. She is staying in one of those old, historic houses with the wood floors & floor to ceiling windows. It was a fixer-upper but I loved it all the same.
In the keys I went to the beach the day we got there & the next day. We went to a place called no name pub on no name island. I can't make this stuff up. Inside the pub there were 1 dollar bills hanging everywhere. I asked the manager how much they estimated was covering the place & she said roughly $80,000. Crazy. The day we left, we went snorkling off of Looe Key. It is supposed to be one of the best diving spots in the world, other than the Great barrier. But it was so beautiful. Mom & my worried/scared cousin Liz who is 12 went off together & me and my 7 year old cousin Matt were a pair. We were the best. This kid had no fear. He saw fish at the bottom and dove right down to try to touch them. It was so cute. The fish down there were so colorful. When I was about to get on the ladder back into the boat I saw a huge ass barracuda right next to me. Literally I turned my head & it was there. Freaked the hell out of me. Apparently they aren't aggressive unless provoked so I quickly got into the boat. By the time we had 10 min. left I definately got sea sick. I felt it before on my cruise to Egypt, Kb did too. But this wasn't as bad. It sucked because I was just swimming for about an hour & 1/2 & was sitting on a boat in the hot sun ready to vomit. It got better once we got back to land. It was really fun though, I'd recommend it to anyone.
So having my cousins around made that trip great. I always do not want to go on trips with little kids cause I know they will cry a lot or be annoying in some way. But my cousin matt is the cutest. I really had pure fun with them. I actually wanted to go snorkeling off the beach with them one time. It was out of the norm for me anyway.
It was really really good for me to go on that trip. I was so not into the waking up early thing but I definately benefitted from it. You don't realize the effect the time has sometimes when you are around family until after the fact. It was really great to have some pure fun & quality time with the family. Lord knows it's been way too long since the last time...
In Georgia we went all around downtown which I love to do because I adore that city. We searched for some dance studios for Cait to go teach at so she can get back into dance & get some free classes. I really hope she follows through with those. We ate out pretty much every meal & it was nice because all the places we went were so cute. Mom & Bob have a house on Tybee Island, it's off the coast in Savannah. So I slept there the 1st night. The next day the air conditioner broke. It was SOO hot in the house. I thought Georgia, a little more North may have some cool weather... NO. So then the 2nd night I stayed at Cait's house. She is staying in one of those old, historic houses with the wood floors & floor to ceiling windows. It was a fixer-upper but I loved it all the same.
In the keys I went to the beach the day we got there & the next day. We went to a place called no name pub on no name island. I can't make this stuff up. Inside the pub there were 1 dollar bills hanging everywhere. I asked the manager how much they estimated was covering the place & she said roughly $80,000. Crazy. The day we left, we went snorkling off of Looe Key. It is supposed to be one of the best diving spots in the world, other than the Great barrier. But it was so beautiful. Mom & my worried/scared cousin Liz who is 12 went off together & me and my 7 year old cousin Matt were a pair. We were the best. This kid had no fear. He saw fish at the bottom and dove right down to try to touch them. It was so cute. The fish down there were so colorful. When I was about to get on the ladder back into the boat I saw a huge ass barracuda right next to me. Literally I turned my head & it was there. Freaked the hell out of me. Apparently they aren't aggressive unless provoked so I quickly got into the boat. By the time we had 10 min. left I definately got sea sick. I felt it before on my cruise to Egypt, Kb did too. But this wasn't as bad. It sucked because I was just swimming for about an hour & 1/2 & was sitting on a boat in the hot sun ready to vomit. It got better once we got back to land. It was really fun though, I'd recommend it to anyone.
So having my cousins around made that trip great. I always do not want to go on trips with little kids cause I know they will cry a lot or be annoying in some way. But my cousin matt is the cutest. I really had pure fun with them. I actually wanted to go snorkeling off the beach with them one time. It was out of the norm for me anyway.
It was really really good for me to go on that trip. I was so not into the waking up early thing but I definately benefitted from it. You don't realize the effect the time has sometimes when you are around family until after the fact. It was really great to have some pure fun & quality time with the family. Lord knows it's been way too long since the last time...