What I Learned the Past 3 Weeks - Part I
After climbing on the rain-wet roof of our new house for the 5th time, I finally got internet and I'm finally ready to blog a bit about the happenings of the last few weeks. Coincidentally, I also found my new favorite place in our new house, or rather ON our new house as you can see the ocean and about a million stars from up there.
So go grab a beverage of your choice, probably a snack 'cause this post has some catching up to do and spans travel across 9000 miles and various emotional states - HA!
So sit back and enjoy the following fairly random snippets, in chronological order:
So go grab a beverage of your choice, probably a snack 'cause this post has some catching up to do and spans travel across 9000 miles and various emotional states - HA!
So sit back and enjoy the following fairly random snippets, in chronological order:
- Throwing an impromptu Thanksgiving dinner with 12 of your expected family members the night before heading out of town is a blast!
- Painting a dragon on your car, on your way out the door to the airport probably isn't the best idea, but it makes BondGirl happy.
- If you don't pay your hosting provider, they turn off and DELETE your entire blog, which makes me VERY upset and spend subsequent hours on the phone
- Despite my travel cooties and tough logistics with being gone from the kids, I love traveling, watching people and adjusting to new cultures/languages/cities and the act of flying itself is a form of meditation for me as I don't typically get park my behind in any one place for any amount of time voluntarily. That all makes an 18 hour trip bearable.
Getting food served to me, that I didn't have to cook, shop for, clean up after or server during the first couple of days felt AMAZING! - After a few days away from Anguilla, I missed the ocean, sun, peace, reggae, the people and the warm breeze MUCH more than I thought I would. Fortunately a night out with great friends, without sleep, excessive dancing and loud music helps a lot.
- The concept of physically navigating around people is completely foreign in Anguilla and it takes me by surprise and makes me a bit uncomfortable every time I travel to any big city, specifically to a place with 3.5 million people
- I never realized that there were no steps in Anguilla (it's small and flat) until I walked up and down about a thousand of them in Barcelona
- European conference attendees are MUCH different from American one's and their technical level appears to be higher, including Russians that say my name in the most "unique" ways
- Spanky got Stockholm syndrome and "accidentally" snook in my suitcase
- Being thousands of miles away when hearing about a 7.4 earthquake hitting our island and then not being able to get in touch with anyone back home is absolutely terrifying!
- There are no stars and no peaceful noises in Barcelona
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