The end of May and beginning of June I spent a month in pompano beach, I was able to blog while I was there cause I had internet. During that month my aunt from NC who lives down the road from me took my grandfather back with her to NC, leaving me and my grandmother to party hard meaning she had knee surgery and I ran errands, which was easy to do in the sunshine state. I had the chance to grow in the Lord, get a handle on some things, hang out with my awesome grandma whom I call Mama B (not many grandmas have 'G' names like that), and work on my tan. I read alot of books which is something I love to do but never slow down enough to do and got addicted to the show Swamp People which I highly recommend, even my grandma thought I was crazy but loved it by the end.
Anyways after a month in the Sunshine State, and once my grandmother felt better from surgery we headed on up to Shelby, NC. With my grandmother in NC there is still no time lost, she always likes to get projects going on her parents house down the road from me so needless to say all the hours of watching HGTV and TLC came in handy. My little sister Sydney and I almost single handedly renovated the kitchen there.
Busy busy busy. My grandmother stayed in Shelby for about 3 weeks, after we finished the kitchen I took off one weekend with my friend Lydia to visit my best friend Elizabeth and her family in Johnson City, Tennessee. We left went to Asheville and hung out, I experienced my first Gay Parade, very interesting, we picked Elizabeth up spent the night at her house in JC and this summer Elizabeth worked at a camp in Banner Elk so we chose to take her back to camp the next day (1) because the mountains are beautiful and I love just driving through them (2) I missed my best friend so I wanted as much time as possible. It was a very spontaneous exciting trip to TN. But was one of those that ended too soon and back to Shelby we went.
When I got back to Shelby, my grandmother was again ready to hit the ground running but this time it was back to her house. When it was time to go back to Florida, she needed someone to drive her and my grandfather because it is a 12 hour trip, I was free so what the heck. Alright now bear with me for this cause that week was hectic... on Wednesday I went to Carowinds, Thursday I drove us down to Pompano, and then on Friday I hopped back in the car with more family from FL and drove back up to Lake Norman.
Yes, Lake Norman. One of my aunts uncle and 2 cousins live on the street over from my grandmother, and last year they rented a house in Lake Norman and this summer they did it again. Conveniently we got back just in time so that I could ride back with them instead of flying home. But I definitely dont recommend 24 hours in a car that fast, it was so tiring. Anyways we drove to Lake Norman my sisters came up that night and we spent the whole week there with them. I fished alot with my cousin Ethan, my uncle brought his Skater boat up so we hit 90 mph a couple times on the lake, and one day we rented Jet Skiis. (Ill have to put pictures of all this up later too)
After the week was up, they went home and I was onto my next crazy adventure. Appalachian Trail here I come! I met Elizabeth and her family again but this time at their mountain house between Spruce Pine and Little Switzerland, parked the car we packed our backpacks her dad Allen dropped us off and Elizabeth Marianne (her mom) and myself were on our way. Did I say I had never backpacked before? Oh yea, nope, this was my first time--now lets be for real, real life-I thought I was going to die. It was definitely a trip that I look back on and was like that was beautiful but during it the only thing on my mind was "Are we there yet?". But really it was great, I got some awesome time to hang with Elizabeth and the mountains are beautiful. God was so big during this whole trip.
Needless to say the trip was great, but the shower I took afterwards was one of the best showers I've ever taken and the meal afterwards mmmm....soo good. I loved being with Elizabeth but eventually the fun had to end and I had to head home. On to the next adventure I should say....
A few days after I got back from backpacking I was in the car AGAIN on my way to Marietta, GA to spend time with my little cousins Dylan and Alexis. SN: they are my two most favorite people, I love them to death Any who I was excited to spend time with them. When we arrived in Marietta there was construction going on at their house. A while back a tree had fell on their house so they took the opportunity to renovate things and one project was to stain wood in their living room. Fortunately for us the guys did it the day we were heading there, the smell was soo strong we spent the entire week in a hotel. Now Dylan and I did not object to ordering wings through room service and the three of us watched shark week, my aunt yelled at me for it but I took the educational opportunity very seriously. But all that was short lived, its rough 5 people living in a little hotel room for a week so we packed up and went back to Shelby to finish out the rest of my summer till school.
2011 Summer recap for you peeps. Its alot but real life-my life right ?? haha Deuces yo!
