Airport adventures!

Okay, I like to think of myself as a relatively experienced flier. Traveling between Florida and Oklahoma all the time includes quite a few plane rides, and I have also flown quite a bit with my family for vacations and whatnot. I've even flown as an unaccompanied minor multiple times, including the trip to camp where my brother and I (ages about 14 and 13) missed our flight in Memphis and had to sit in the kids room for 6 hours while we waited for our next chance to make it to Missouri.

Kevin McCallister ain't got nothing on us. Okay maybe he does, but still...

Anyway... let's just say that I am no stranger to airports. I even somewhat enjoy just sitting around for a couple of hours, listening to music and watching strange people walk past (you can definitely see some weirdos in airports, am I right??).

The point of this tirade is that I am already sick of all of these planes and airports and lugging around my satchel along with my insanely heavy backpack that includes about 10 pounds of stuff that couldn't go in my checked bags because they were already overweight. Heck, even typing about it makes me tired. My shoulders hurt, my feet are aching to get out of these boots, and my head hurts maybe as much as yours does if you've lasted this long of reading my complaints. And I haven't even boarded my last and longest flight from Philadelphia to Rome. Ugh. Isn't my life so difficult??

Alrightttt I know that my life isn't actually hard at all... I'm doing all of this to get to ITALY! Where I get to live for about 4 months. Yeah, roughing it, I know. I think that's actually why I'm so sick of traveling after such a short time --- I just want to be there already! Luckily, in about 12 hours (give or take a few, I'm still rusty on the time change stuff) I will have arrived in the land of Romulus and Remus!

Until then, I'm going to keep listening to the awesome playlist that I have, composed of the eclectic mix of Mumford & Sons, some Brad Paisley and other country stuff, Ed Sheeran, the Pitch Perfect soundtrack, Imagine Dragons, and other epicness. Yeah I like a lot of kinds of music... Deal with it.

I may also try some horizontal running. If you don't know what this

 is from (AKA you haven't seen Pitch Perfect) all I have to say is, think

about your life, think about your choices. Aca-awkward.

These are my thoughts, recommendations, and rants for today. Enjoy. Love you all!

And so it begins...

Hello everyone! I am just trying to get this thing rolling before I head over to Rome on Saturday... crazy right?! I told people that I would attempt to blog about my adventures abroad to keep you all posted, so here goes...

I am mostly packed... those of you that know my knack for procrastination and tendency toward disorganization (especially when it comes to clothes) probably already know by now that "mostly packed" means that I have everything somewhat laid out in piles and my mom has started to help me somehow make it all fit into the bags that I'm bringing. Whoops?

Even though I am obviously SUPER excited to be able to go spend a few months in Europe, I think I'm still kind of numb right now. Like, am I really going to be straight up living in a small town in Tuscany in just a few days?? Is this real life?? I've never been to Europe, so I don't really know what to expect... but from what I've heard, it's going to be A-MAH-ZING.

Side note, I've become newly obsessed with the show Happy Endings.

This is Penny. She says a-mah-zing. She's awesome.

So I'm just working on wrapping my head around the idea that I will soon be living "la vita bella" in Italia and what that will entail. The fact that the next time I write a new blog post it will likely be from my apartment on the Corso Italia in the center of Arezzo... dude. Crazy.

For now, I'm going to get back to watching the new episode of Grey's Anatomy (insert joke about my unhealthy addiction to TV shows) ... but I love you all, and I hope that you can deal with my rambling on here for the next couple of months! I can't promise that I will always be eloquent or witty, but I will try!

Arrivederci!

P.S. I speak ZERO Italian, so don't expect much of that from me haha. But I will be taking a class and trying to learn it!