The hope is we have so much to feel good about

This summer has been one of those semi-life altering summers. The break up, Europe, Internship, moving home etc. In all the chaos between the good and the bad I feel like I have really come to appreciate the little things in life that bring me Joy.
Driving to work in the morning with my home-made Iced Coffee in one of those expensive recycle-able cups with straws, windows down because the AC sucks, listening to Dave Ryan in the morning and Garry Spivey while stuck in traffic is something I come to enjoy.

I feel I have become more accepting of all the chaos, the stress, the problems, the sadness and really just have a more positive outlook on life. all those things ARE life, there is not one person out there who does NOT go through any of that. The stressful internship/jobs, the trying to make close friends, the painful/heartbreaking breakups, the weight gain whatevs like there isn't a person out there who has'nt gone through one of those things. If there is It'd like to meet them. I also come to learn that in each of these downfalls of life theres an opportunity awaiting. And I've really been trying to remeber that every day.

So enough of my near midnight cheesey ramblings.
But this summer deffinitly is a summer all about me.
Growing, Learning, Accepting, and Moving Forward is on my daily agenda.

Wow does time FLY by

I just realized that I no where near even finishd my Europe blog posts. The last one I posted was in Ireland, and I had about a week in Europe still after that. I'm not going to go into detail about the last few days, as theres plenty I still want to blog about THIS summer.

Seriously, time FLYS by when your in Europe. When I was there, the first 2 weeks I was like, man I feel like i've been here for a month already, then like THAT your on a plane home. So I thought time was going awesomely slow while I was there the first two weeks, probably because we didnt do much traveling the first half. Then when we took our Ireland trip from there time slipped out from under me then it was just gone and now I'm home almost done with my INTernship.

Europe was amazing, I feel so, so very greatful for being given the opportunity to travel abroad not once, but twice. Every day was an experience I will hold on to forever. I grew so much while I was over there and I really feel like I came back a more greatful, happier, peaceful person than I was when I left. Which then will need to my next blog. But anyway, I will never ever forget Europe and I really hope I am not done traveling abroad. There is an unbelieveable amount of sights and cities and countries to see over seas I cant help but to want to go back every summer. If only it were that easy right? I wish. But next I would love to do some traveling around Italy. But I also want to travel some South America places as well, thats a whole different experience I can only imagine.

Here are just a couple of things I MISS about being abroad and the countries I visited. (I could go on forever but here are the bigger ones)

---Stress Free. When your over there, your really not thinking about whats at home, work, your personal life, because every minute your trying to take in that very moment. Theres so much to do and see there theres little time to be concerned about whats awaiting when you come home.
-The sights. Scotland, Ireland, England and Amsterdam all have their own, unique but stunning sights to see. The mountains, ocean, the wildlife (or should I see cows and lamb) the ancient buildings and so on. I had so many breathtaking moments over seas we're just unexplainably amazing.
--The fun. I bonded with a couple great people while traveling. Your with these people 24 hours a day, for 4 weeks straight. From pub crawls, shopping, being typical tourists, dinners, to nights sitting in our rooms or hostels being awesome we're just great times. They were always consistent, as where at home you'll maybe go out and see friends once or twice a weekend. I miss being around good people, often, and laughing constantly.
---The People. People watching is one of my favorite past times. Though people over there are not too too different from us Americans, they still are entertaining to watch how they go about their days, talk with their crazy eccents and just engaging with them and making conversation was always interesting.
---Strongbow. I drank it often.
Again, those are only a couple of my favorite things about traveling, as I could go on forever.

Some things I dont miss?

--The food. I am a very picky eater, so finding food I liked over there was never fun.
--The expenses. Needless to say, traveling is NOT cheap. Paying for bus's everyday, and the food was substaintially more expensive over there.
--The bathrooms. The palace and some hostels didn't have the best bathrooms.
---The eating out everyday that made me gain too much weight.

I feel like there are so many things I COULD write about. But I am going to wrap up the Europe posts about now finally.

At the end of the day, I had a truly amazing, life altering experience those 4 weeks that I will never forget and am so very greatful for. Now its on to paying off the credit card.....boooo.

Here are just some pictures that I enjoy looking back on.