Pictures...back in TN

Well, I'm back in TN after an amazing week and a half of vacation. I can't believe the trip went by so fast...it was so incredible! Here's a link to the pics:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2077572&id=52702346&l=f523c6ed74

So...I guess school is next, lol. I start next Monday, my last semester! I can't believe I'm graduating. Hopefully it won't be too stressful. I don't really have any travel plans for a while...kind of sad. :-( Maybe I'll plan some spontaneous trip... I'll update again soon!

Love all you guys!

Amelia

Under the California Sun

We made it!! After 5 days of driving, Ellen and I finally made it to California! What an amazing trip! We went through Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California. I knew that we could do it all along, but I think it's still a little unbelieveable that we just made such an awesome trip! We've seen every kind of beauty you could imagine...rolling green hills, the desert at sunset, mountains that seemed like they came out of nowhere, city lights at night, and the flowing waves of the ocean. Wow...we live in a beautiful place...I took tons of pictures, so I'll post the link for those once I post them on Facebook which probably won't be until this weekend since I have limited internet access, but stay tuned! :-)

So...we just finished the most incredible road trip, but we're still only halfway through the trip, lol! Last night we saw (500) Days of Summer at this really cool old restored theater that was built in 1938...I think it was called the Lido Theatre...great movie, too. We spent today lounging on the beach, getting completely sunburned. There's an amazing bike trail to get to the beach that takes about 20 minutes, so we've been utilizing that yesterday and today. We decided to just take it easy today after the past 5 days of driving. Tomorrow we're thinking about hitting up the San Diego Zoo...we've been told that it's one of the best zoos anywhere, and we're definitely animal lovers, so we're going to try to make that work. As for the rest of the week...nothing's concrete, but we're definitely going to be dorky tourists and check out Grauman's Theater, Rodeo Drive, and the Hollywood sign, lol. Maybe a Dodger's game, too, while we're at it. :-)

It's been a pretty awesome vacation, and I'm so glad Ellen asked me to do this with her. I think she's going to love it out here! California is pretty hard to resist... :-)

Hope everyone is doing well!

Lots of love,
Amelia

Ready for the Road!!!

In two days, I'll be on the road!! Yay! I'm super excited! The general plan is to head for St. Louis first and then drive through Missouri, Oklahoma, the panhandle of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and finally into California! Whew...it's going to be a lot of driving, but I'm totally pumped. The open road is calling my name. :-) Ellen and I have been doing lots of planning and talking about everything that we're going to do along the way, and it's going to be awesome. I don't think it's really sunk in, yet, that we're about to drive across the entire country, lol, but we're excited nonetheless. There's going to be plenty of photo and video ops, so I'll post the link to the pics!

Nothing else really going besides the trip right now. I'm still dealing with the fact that I'm about to start my last semester of college, and I don't really have a plan for after that...the world is my oyster right now (or something like that), and that's pretty terrifying, lol. It's weird to think that for the first time in my life, there's not a next step. For 22 years my life has been scheduled around school, and now it won't be. So weird... I'm not really worried, I know everything's going to end up totally fine, but still...it's just strange.

In other news, I found a new artist that I really like. Diane Birch--check her out, she's pretty chill!

Hope everyone is doing well. I'll update after my adventure in the west! :-)

Paz,

Amelia

Working and anticipating

Overall, things have been going pretty well since my last post. I've finally been able to do some working...I don't feel quite so lazy anymore, lol, and it's nice to have an income again! Yay! God provides! Currently I am doing said work...I'm basically just sitting in an office all day long, answering the phone. It's a job, though, so I'm not complaining. Every night this week I'm going to be doing some other work in the form of babysitting...it's going to be a long week, lol.

The visit with my cousin David was pretty fun! We've seen some movies, had some friends over, and tried not to get into too much trouble, lol. Hanging out with family is always fun. He heads back to Louisiana tomorrow.

Road trip planning is going well...I can't wait to be on the open road again, and I can't wait to see some California sunshine!! I'm super pumped about this last hoorah of Summer '09! If anybody has been on Route 66 before and has any suggestions of things we just have to stop and see, let me know!

Hope everyone is enjoying the summer!

Paz,

Amelia