What I Did Like, 2 weeks Ago

Here's all what I did before I left for my family trip...which I may or may not write about later. We'll see. Oh and this was written before I left for the trip too, so that explains that bottom paragrah.

Wednesday-After work, my aunt took me and Anne(one of her friends)to the movie theaters to see Live from the Met, “La Boheme” cause my aunt is into opera and this is one of her favorites. It was a good way to experience opera for the first time cause there were subtitles so one could understand everything. It was also a good opera for me to see because “La Boheme” is based off the musical “Rent” which I know a great deal about. So yeah, good thing to experience. I kind of laughed too because I was the youngest person in the theater by at least a good 40 years.

Thursday-My aunt and I left a tad bit early from work so we could potentially take everyone at the house out but that didn’t happen which was alright, it was nice just to chill at home. Finally finished “The Thornbirds” miniseries-it was good but had a very heavy ending, oh tragedies. We had a very beautiful, colorful sunset this night. Then went to the Gelato Vero Café afterwards because I was itching to go out, so I just drew people there and had a gelato blended drink(Tiramisu Gelato and Espresso), because that is something I can’t get in MN, it was very tasty but probably absolutely horrible for me at the same time.

Friday-Last day of work for 2 weeks. So weird, I can’t believe it’s already time for the family vacation. This summer is just blowing by so fast, I can’t believe it! We drove into La Jolla again after work because there was a shirt I saw on Tuesday and I just kept on thinking about it everyday, so I decided to just go ahead and buy it, happy I did, it’s so cute! After dinner, my foot had finally started feeling better since the 4th of July fun run I did, so I went for a short run and it felt great! Then after I jumped in my aunt’s pool and hot tub….I tell you, there’s nothing much better then going for a run and then jumping into a nice cool pool after and then after that a hot tub. I’m so spoiled out here. Then I packed for my trip back home. Woot.

Saturday-Well had the morning before leaving for my trip back MN and I was not going to waste it. My aunt and I went to the dog beach on Coronado because it’s been one of my silly life dreams ever since I saw Marley and Me. It was AMAZING and so much fun. I love seeing dogs off-leash, running around and playing with each other and to see that plus adding an ocean they could run/swim in, oh it was so cool! I hope we go back again(and I’m sure we will). Then Laurie came back from her week trip out to New Hampshire(where she grew up) and it was her first day back to work and she was incredibly nice and brought us live lobster from her trip for us to eat. She is so nice. Anyways, I had never eaten lobster before, so that was interesting. I liked it better than I thought, I think it would taste amazing in sushi actually. Then I had to be to the airport by 1pm so I could catch my flight. So yes, had a very full morning before flying back to grand old MN. Will be in town for a few days before leaving for a family vacation to Prague. I can’t wait!

And as a side note, I was just thinking about the rest of my summer and until school starts, I realized just how much I’ll be traveling and how the longest I’ll be staying somewhere for the next month or so is while my family is in Prague. Isn’t the crazy? Cause I’ll be back in MN for 3 days, then in Prague for 8 days, then back in MN for like 1 or 2 days, In San Diego for a week(maybe less depending on how my aunt plans our San Fransisco trip), then I’ll be in San Fransisco for 5 days, in San Diego again for a week, then back in MN. Phew! And after that, I’m planning on going out to West Bend with my mom to visit family out there, if it works out for everyone. SO CRAZY! I'll be living my life out of a suitcase for the next month.

~Lauren