Since College ...

On December 13th, after I had finished all my exams and finished moving all my stuff back to my parents, I got on a plane and headed to Florida.

My friend Lindsay lives there. We met on the ship last year in Liberia. She was a nurse, and she is the one who taught me how to do blood draws. It was great to see her again and catch up. I got to see four people from the ship while I was there, visit Disney World, shop a lot, and have a great time!

I was really thankful for that time to just rest after a tough semester. It was a lot of fun!

I was a first time visitor so I got a special badge! You can kind of see in that picture that I'm "tanned". Well - a fews days now I've been home, and it's already faded!

Little did I know what the Wild Cats had in store for me the next day!

So I am a huge High School Musical fan (I know it's lame, but that doesn't matter. It still warms my heart!) and lucky me - I got chosen in their street show to go in an dance with them! Haha. It was a lot of fun. I even for a "Star Dazzle Award"!

These is made of lego. I think Lynette's kids will enjoy them. It was amazing.

Hello Shayla! She was there before I got on the ship and left after I left. She and I were good friends!

American love Canada!

Florida was made all the more better when I got to see Alison as well! She and I were rather close on the ship, so it was great to see her again!

When I was in Florida we had the best desert ever. It was cheesecake lollipops. They were amazing!

My flight home from Florida was a trek and a half!

I got up at 3:30am and headed the airport around 4. I flew from Tampa to Memphis. Once I got there, I saw that my next flight had been cancelled! Yay! Not! I got rerouted then to L.A. That flight was delayed about 3 hours so I sat in the Memphis airport for a long time.

Once I got to L.A. it took me a long time to find my new terminal since the airport is set up differently than any airport I've ever been in (and I've been in a fair amount these past few years). As I walked to my terminal, I watched different departure screens for each airline and saw flight after flight being cancelled.

I finally made it to my terminal, figured it all out and sat down for about seven hours. My flight left about two hours later than expected and the flight crew that was on my flight volunteered to take our flight since our intended flight crew was about 2-3 hours away in the air! I also had got upgraded to first class for that flight, so my last flight was a lot nicer than any I had had before!

Mac picked me up and after over twenty-four hours of being awake and almost as much travel time I was home!

Christmas was great today! We had breakfast and then opened stockings and gifts. I got some pretty cool stuff and it was fun to give present to the family.

Merry Christmas to all!

May the last few days of you year be filled with genuine peace, love, and joy!

To close I thought I'd share a portion of a song that has probably been my favourite this holiday season.

It's still a mystery to me that the hands of God could be so small,

How tiny fingers reaching into the night were the very hands that measured the sky.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

Heaven's love reaching down to save the world.

It's still a mystery to me, how his infant eyes have seen the dawn of time,

How his ears have heard an angel's symphony - But still Mary had to rock her Savior to sleep.

God bless you.

Merry Christmas!