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Feb 14 2011
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Shoutout, Travel

Happy Valentine’s Day

Funny Valentine's Day Ecard: Happy Valentine's Day to someone who raised me, loved me unconditionally, and made me almost capable of having a functional relationship.

Valentine’s Day has never meant much to me – so I’m neither happy nor sad today. I do intend to have some good food for dinner tonight, but besides that expectations are pretty low/non-existent.
I DO have something to celebrate though… Dan is now OFFICIALLY BOOKED FOR EUROPE this summer!! Thanks to my expert travel-agent-via-internet skills and about 60k Delta Skymiles that Dan had accrued, he is now booked to enjoy an 18-day European getaway this summer. I’d say that more than makes up for his unfortunate absence last year.
I am extra excited because I am getting to experience new places I’ve never been to before this year – including London and Venice – in addition to sharing with Dan some of my all-time faves (like Cinque Terre and, possibly, Rome – maybe just for lunch).
Anyway, just wanted to share my excitement. Valentine’s Shmalentines……but YAY FOR EUROPE!!!
LONDON
CINQUE TERRE
VENICE
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Jun 08 2010
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Travel, UGA Students

Firenze

aka- Florence… is where I am now and where I will be for the next 2 days. Not originally a part of my plan – although I didn’t really have a plan – but alas this is where I am and I like it.

We left Cinque Terre early this morning after a good day and a half of eating, hiking, swimming, and lounging on rocks at the water’s edge. Noticing that our train to Florence connected in Pisa, I suggested we stop there for a touristy and snapshot-heavy pitstop at the famous tower. Beaucoups of pictures to follow…

After Pisa we had a slight mis-step in all catching the same train, but we YOLO’d our way through it and found each other at the hotel lobby in Florence just fine.

…which brings us to the present momen. We arrived to the hotel in Florence – knowing that three girls (half of our group) had a reservation scheduled here. The Hodge Twins and I had no reservations anywhere in Florence. Our mis-steps turned into mini-miracles as the guy working the front desk of the hotel (which was ENTIRELY BOOKED, mind you) somehow arranged to switch our rooms so that ALL SIX OF US can room together in mac-daddy Florence suite. We have a king bed, a double bed, and two twin beds AND our own bathroom. Not to mention enough extra space with which we could accomodate a middle school dance. There’s also a chandelier. Oh la la. So, needless to say, I have sidelined my plans of arriving earlier in Rome and will now be in Florence for a couple of days. Hard to pass this deal up.

Well, I’m off to find some gelato. Ciao.

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Jun 05 2010
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Bittersweet

– Checked all the students out this morning

– Packing for my week off in between programs
– Going to Italy tomorrow (without Dan, as originally planned)
– etc etc etc
There’s lots of happy things going on right now, so I’m keeping my eyes fixed on that without forgetting about what could’ve been / what was SUPPOSED to be… Grrrr…
Anyway, off to Italy in the morning to relax during my week off. Cinque Terre first followed by Rome. Reminds me of my post-Cannes travel back when I was a student on the trip. Ah, memories.
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