Hi friends! Thank you to everyone who wished us well on our travels. It was a long, surreal day for me. I spent a good chunk of the morning furiously filling out the knowledge review quizes for my Advanced Scuba Diving Certificate, which I had procrastinated an entire year on doing.
note to self: stop procrastinating
I said goodbye to Clare {hardest thing I had to do that day} and prodded my husband along to finish packing. He was still going through papers & shoving things into his backpack at 3 hours before our departure time.
note to self: encourage husband to stop procrastinating
We made it in the knick of time to the airport, less than an hour before take-off. The airline agent had to call in to make sure that "Domestic Short Hair" was a real breed of cat. I may have said something along the lines of, "just because you've never heard of it doesn't mean it's not a real breed!"
note to self: bite your tongue
Thankfully whoever she talked to on the other end of the phone agreed with me & she let us go through. Getting on the plane was no big deal, we pretty much just walked right on because we were so late. As we took off the thought hit me that I might never see the island again, and I couldn't stop the tears. The student sitting on the other side of the aisle said, "Aren't you a spouse? We should be the ones crying, not you!" Which of course just made me cry even more!
note to self: avoid crying on an airplane, it's embarrassing
When we got to Puerto Rico, we had to take Adamcat through customs which took longer than it should have and resulted in one of those epic-movie moments where we ran through the airport & yelled "hold the doors!!" as the attendant was walking away. I wish I were exaggerating.
note to self: schedule longer layovers when traveling with a pet
The last leg of our journey was rather uneventful. Quick stopover in Miami before the long flight to California. All our luggage made it through, and we left LAX around midnight. Chris & Adam went to stay at his mom's and I spent the night with my sister.
Since then, things have been a whirl-wind! Driving my car again, getting a phone {just a cheapy}, job interviews, etc. I'm staying with a dear friend and her family for now until we get a few more things settled.
I still feel a little shocked and exhausted, sort of like my brain is struggling to comprehend the transition and to keep up with this faster pace. There are gonna be a lot of changes in store for us in the upcoming weeks and months, but for now it's one day at a time.
8/10/2012
8/07/2012
Why I Blog
I've seen a lot of posts recently about the purpose of blogging and why we do it. For me, it's been a way to keep track of a life changing experience that not too many American's get to have. I look back at the evolution of my blog, growing from a way to keep in touch with friends and family to an opportunity to meet new friends around the world.
I love that I have a mixture of readers from different periods of my life. Wherever we end up living for rotations or residency, I think I will be excited because chances are I will know someone from college, or a Ross spouse, or there will be a blog friend nearby.
Getting involved the blogging community was a way for me to still feel connected to the outside world, even from a tiny island. It helped me stay in tune with what was happening in America and find friendships with people from all across the globe.
Moving forward, I want this blog to be a connecting point. A way to keep in touch and to make new friends. I want Priceless Adventure to be a diary of the highs and lows and everything in between. I want to look back in another two years and again be so thankful that I kept track of our daily lives.
A lot can happen in two years, and after all..
I love that I have a mixture of readers from different periods of my life. Wherever we end up living for rotations or residency, I think I will be excited because chances are I will know someone from college, or a Ross spouse, or there will be a blog friend nearby.
Getting involved the blogging community was a way for me to still feel connected to the outside world, even from a tiny island. It helped me stay in tune with what was happening in America and find friendships with people from all across the globe.
Moving forward, I want this blog to be a connecting point. A way to keep in touch and to make new friends. I want Priceless Adventure to be a diary of the highs and lows and everything in between. I want to look back in another two years and again be so thankful that I kept track of our daily lives.
A lot can happen in two years, and after all..
8/06/2012
Goodbye Dominica
Today is the day. We are leaving on a jetplane with 4 bags, 2 back-packs, 1 carry-on and 1 Adamcat. There are simply not enough words to express what my time on the island has been like. But what I do have, is a collection of favorite posts about my time on the island.
8/02/2012
Only in Dominica III
Chris has his last final exam on the island today. From here on out, he will be doing 2 years of hospital rotations. And for me, it marks the end of full-time housewifery.
Before we leave though, I wanted to share with you one more round of Only In Dominica..
do the gnomes have a sun tan...
does 2-Pac's cousin {1-Pac} own a banana hut...
or will you find President Obama gracing the hot sauce.
Only in Dominica does merely being competent get you a job...
will you find iguanas crossing campus...
or centipedes in your rum punch...
Only in Dominica can you get your bike washed at the car wash...
do you find inspirational messages on the backs of cars...
or can you listen to a didgeridoo band.
But Dominica definitely has the best slang ever...
and the best signs ever!
Through it all, I love this island in the sun. And I'll miss these "only in Dominica" moments soon. Living in a developing country hasn't always been the easiest or most convenient, but in the end it's taught me to laugh when things are ridiculous & to enjoy my surroundings, unique quirks and all.
p.s. Clare did an Only in Dominica.. post today too!
8/01/2012
It's official, I'm a Serious Blogger.
So I had a realization today. I think I'm becoming a serious blogger. The evidence adds up!
+ Do you see that picture up there with me holding a moustache on a stick? Enough said.
+ Ate my first macaron while on a blate with Clare! Ok, well, maybe it was more like two real life friends who got together for tea.. but we talked about blogging stuff so I'm calling it a blate.
And, if I lived in the states this picture would have been Instagrammed. And the waitress would have known how to use an iPhone. These pictures are crappy, sorry about that.
+ This post was scheduled. That's right, I wrote it last night (time warp) and told Blogger to publish it this morning at 6am.
+ I will probably talk about this post on Facebook, Tweet about it, and possibly Pin It! That's right, social media mastery.
Now all I need to do is a What I Wore Wednesday post & get a Birch Box subscription. Then I'll know for sure I've made it.
+ Ate my first macaron while on a blate with Clare! Ok, well, maybe it was more like two real life friends who got together for tea.. but we talked about blogging stuff so I'm calling it a blate.
And, if I lived in the states this picture would have been Instagrammed. And the waitress would have known how to use an iPhone. These pictures are crappy, sorry about that.
+ I will probably talk about this post on Facebook, Tweet about it, and possibly Pin It! That's right, social media mastery.
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