Traveling Again...

So... I finally found my travel blog, figured out the password and am now updating. I figured the whole traveling across country would be a great time to resurrect this. I decided to bring my laptop-makes uploading photos, checking my work email and blogging much easier. Thank god for Ken who fixed my computer with wireless login to the work network. I could work from home now... if there wasnt so much to do in the office.

But it is October. This month is going to be difficult. I can feel it already. The weather dropping, the worst day of my life looming... i have never needed a vacation so badly. It is like... 80 degrees in Florida, the first stop on the trip and i am going to enjoy sunbathing.

I will miss Deacon very much. It will be the longest time without him since he came to live with me. We have a very set routine and i know he gets very anxious if i am gone too long. It is nice to have such great friends I can trust to take good care of him and my house while gone though. I am such a paranoid mommy though-are they going to remember to lock the doors? Will he have enough cuddle time? Will he miss me? I hope he eats and doesnt vomit while i am gone-he is very sensitive. poor baby.

So.. jessie said i should write. that there is a certain freedom in a blog where anyone could read it. that i should just put it out there. i am just always so careful and guarded. i guess this is a good start right?

But today is Monday-i fly out Thursday night. Every single day and night until then is basically jammed packed with a large to-do list. CASTINGS meeting and haircut today, McCarver meeting, pest control and dance class (or trapeze) tomorrow, Wednesday i have TEA, deposits, my appt, Jessie's family picture and girls night and Thursday i have a dr. appt, payroll, dinner with a friend and flying out of town. I still need to pack, make the last wedding shoot into discs, check the camera equipment, do laundry and clean. And I am missing so many CASTINGS meetings during the trip too-i hate missing things right now since everything is so pivotal and new and exciting.

Micheala is coming over now to go over all Deacon's needs. Ill feed her wine while boring her with all my little deacon rules. And girl talk. Then back to editing for a tiny bit more before finally sleeping. please please let this week go by FAST. god knows i need a vacation.

i do not enjoy cold vacations.

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so we left dirty and hot athens for berlin. i am very happy to have left athens, interesting and blah blah blah and im glad i got to see all those ancient temples and shit, but god what a shit hole.

but we arrive in berlin and it feels like a Seattle December. what the fuck. not what i was expecting. Berlin is beautiful and has such history. we rode one of those hop on and off buses and im so glad we did because we really got to see the entire city and hear all these facts about it. we saw the memorial for the jews killed in the holocaust. it is these giant stone pillars rising from the ground. i took lots of pictures. we saw the last part of the berlin wall left standing too.

but its cold. very cold. we were going to travel eastern europe for a bit, go to vienna, prague thru germany, until we realized how far away they are from each other and how cold it is in september. everyone is wearing gloves, scarfs, tights and winter coats. so we booked a flight to barcelona instead. hahaha.

so we fly out to barcelona for the next for days, spending two days in amsterdam and then one night in london then i am home and all of your lives will be whole again. rejoice for i return in... 8 days. god that seems so soon.

lovejordan

athens.

athens
dirty. smelly. hot.
acropolis is not something you should see at noon.
very very wonderful to see though. makes me think of history and what it was like 1000s of years ago and of my rhetoric class. and philosphy class.

but im excited to head to eastern europe.

and santorini is one of the most beautiful places ever.

ill be home so soon, it weird to think how quickly and slowly everything seems to go when im over here.

santorini!

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currently stealing internet from somewhere near my hotel in santorini. we found this amazing hotel that overlooks the caldera . our room has two balconies and an upstairs loft bedroom. its like a 15 minute walk to the main part of the city. where we are in fira is mostly all hotels. beautiful ones.

yesterday we spent our day walking around main part of fira. we took a... cable car like thing down the mountainside to see the little port of fira, had some lunch, bought postcards and took pictures. and then on the way back up.. we rode fucking donkeys. it was awesome. they stopped so many times and you sit there trying to goad them up that damn hill... but it was hillarious. moms kept trying to rub her against the rocks. and yes we have lots of donkey riding pictures.

today we are going to try to rent a moped again. you need an international license which we do not have... but hopefully we can get one anyways.

i love it here. its so beautiful. its everything i wanted and hoped for when i imaged greek islands.

i cant believe i will be home so soon... only two more weeks.

kos... what can i say?

so mom and i are on the island of kos, which is actually about an hour ferry ride to turkey. kos.. is an interesting place. it reminds me of a greek version of mexico and pasco mixed together. so imagine that. we got a flight out here and thought it would be easy to island hop. and that it would be nice. i guess i was expecting something completely different.

as we grabbed a taxi to take us to kefelos the taxi driver said he knew a good place. but personally we wanted a nice hotel resort like thing. we ended up at the far end of the beach strip a few streets back (if you can even call them streets) at some family owned place. it was fine... but not what we were expecting.

we had a wonderful day spent laying out and swimming near the old club med complex, now deserted and dead, where there was greek ruins just hanging out near the water to check out and a little island with a church to swim out to. which i did and rang the bell.

it was nice and quiet and ended up going well.

we took the bus to kos town, on the other side of the island and got a room and a ferry ticket for tomorrow night. from there, we will catch another ferry and should be in santorini tomorrow or the day after. def going to spend a day or two in athens before leaving greece. kos town seems nice.

florence was fun too. mom and i stayed 3 nights there before heading to the airport. i kinda spurlged on myself.. on a leather jacket. i love it. goood. its wonderful. we shipped back all our purchases and presents home.

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much love.

when things work out.. they work out.

currently me and mom are residing at the marriot hotel by the rome airport. our room was 270 euros, but we paid 100. this man had booked two rooms, but had his flight change so he didnt need to stay overnight but had nonrefundable rooms. so he cut us a deal. a goooood deal. and me an d mom are staying at a very nice hotel now.

we bought a ticket to kos, greece tomorrow morning. we are gunna do the islands then athens then fly somewhere else. who knows where right now. actually i should know. i should be looking that up.. but instead im uploading pics. ooops.

i got to talk to dad and mage last night and tara this morning which was wonderful.

cinque terre

so me and mom are spending our last full day in cinque terre in the city of vernazza. we had an... issue with our last place. hahaha. god i dont even want to talk about it.

but i said goodbye to everyone on the siena group, we all showed our final portfolios, had the final dinner, had a dinner party and did lots of campo hanging out. i cant believe its over. i made some really wonderful friends and it was so nice to be with all these people with the same passion for photography. i miss them!

cinque terre is beautiful. ive been swimming every day for at least an hour and mom and i went kayaking to this beach only reachable by boat. i like kayaking. we got really huge waves from a giant yatch and i was so afraid i was going to go under, but it was really fun.

i wish my sisters where here though. mage would love it here and i know tara enjoyed it. actually anyone who can buy a plane ticket should come. its fun. its worth. you know you want to.

almost done with present buying. im shipping it all home when we get to florence. and hopefully me and mom will go on a wine tour from florence.

love you all!