jennifer patel

V's cousin got married last week. We were honored to be invited and got to take two weeks off in January, including Inauguration Day, to holiday during summer in New Zealand. Even with children dragging us down at times (most notably the wedding event itself), it was a trip of a lifetime. We were put up in the family's beachfront property outside of Auckland. Ew, Auck!...how awful to hear and see the ocean through our windows all night long. Obviously, Alex and I were in our element (literally...Alex is an Aquarius and I am a Pisces) as we could beach it up every single day of our lives. We even love the "beach" called Galveston, so anything that deviates up from that is thrilling. sunrise on our first morning much better than school... the old man and the sea  We took an excursion to Rotorua to do the tourists' stuff...the stuff of tourists. On the hours long bus ride, the driver gave us a lot of information (some of it questionable) a...

I have decided to embrace my procrastination habit this year. Happy New Year, 2017! I don't want to focus for long on anything that happened in 2016 for obvious reasons. It was full of great moments, as always, for my family and that's where we'll leave it. One of the best moments of 2016 came in right at the end. I was cleaning out Alex's closet and found a box containing a few of my childhood stuffed animals. Meh, ok. But tucked in on the side of the box was a folder that I collaged and then had lamintated  at a teacher's store. outside inside Was I too old to do something like this? Definitely. I was a late bloomer and had to do something to fill the years when I wasn't invited to parties to drink and whatever other cool things happened at those parties... This pretty much sums up my 1996-2000. Inside the folder were my BSB ticket stubs and some terribly grainy pictures from the concerts. #thathappened Cheers to 2017!