Southern Girl Traveler
I started out life life any other girl that came from a small city and lived in the suburbs. That is till a couple of years ago I stepped foot on my first plane. I was on my way to Utah to visit a dear old friend. It would be a trip filled with many first timers, and ever since then I have taken a trip somewhere just about ever six months. That is because its the only free time I have in between completing school. Now all of these small trips have prepared me for the best one yet.... Europe.
Monday, December 13, 2010
A wonderful surprise
Today we opened presents and what do I find is an empty box with a picture of Travel+Leisure magazine cover with Vienna as the main story. At the bottom there is a not... "Merry Christmas! You have won a short trip to the Vienna Christmas Market! 4 nights in Vienna Austria! on your way to Scotland" WTF I don't think I stopped smiling for at least an hour, my blood pressure shot through the roof and my face turned beat red from the blood rushing to my head. Austria 4 days. They had be planning this for months and kept it from me. I cant believe Ill not only be going to Scotland but Austria. How could this have ever happened to me. After all the bad stuff there really is a light at the end of the tunnel, its just a long tunnel with a plane to get out.
Shocked
We were having a family dinner for the first time since I have moved out with my roommate AJ. It would be the first of many that I have with his family. So we are all sitting there waiting for the waiter to return to take our orders, the conversation seemed to take a turn to a topic that I could in no way relate. They were talking about Europe and all the places they have seen. Why, because I had never traveled out of the south besides to Utah twice. I tried to join it but the only thing I would get to come out was, "It must be nice, I've always wanted to go to Germany". Debbie, AJ's mom, turns to me and says "would you like to go?" I laugh and reply OH YEA.
Now the reply to that was one that I would have never expected. She said OK we are taking AJ to Scotland as the deal for moving out, do you want to join. Well heck yea I would have loved to join, but I'm thinking I'm a college student that has no financial help from my parents are am in serious debt with student loans, and there would never be any way that I could come up with just a freaking plane ticket. She tried to tell me that they would pay. I felt so awkward. Here is this mom that I have not really become to know completely and shes just willing to pay and take me so I could see the world. So I negotiated, well asked, if I could pay as much as possible. So I payed for half the ticket and AJ the other half. So now I am off for my first trip over the vast ocean to see the world.
Now the reply to that was one that I would have never expected. She said OK we are taking AJ to Scotland as the deal for moving out, do you want to join. Well heck yea I would have loved to join, but I'm thinking I'm a college student that has no financial help from my parents are am in serious debt with student loans, and there would never be any way that I could come up with just a freaking plane ticket. She tried to tell me that they would pay. I felt so awkward. Here is this mom that I have not really become to know completely and shes just willing to pay and take me so I could see the world. So I negotiated, well asked, if I could pay as much as possible. So I payed for half the ticket and AJ the other half. So now I am off for my first trip over the vast ocean to see the world.
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