The Vacation of a Lifetime

My vacation was none of the "ordinary" vacation, I did not travel to an exotic island or anywhere, really. Instead, I enjoyed some much needed R&R at my humble abode. 

The first couple days of vacation were incredible, I felt as if we had all the time in the world to just do whatever we wanted without having to worry about going back school...unfortunately, that was not the case for long. Once the vacation started to reach the weekdays I realized this would not last forever. Wednesday morning when I woke up is when it really hit me, vacation is half way over!
So what exactly was my vacation filled with?
Well, at first, some much needed catch up on sleep, and watching the sixth, and finale season of Gossip Girl.

In case you didn't know this yet, Dan is Gossip Girl. Now, if you don't watch Gossip Girl than that meant nothing at all to you and probably makes about no sense, and if you do watch Gossip Girl and didn't know that, now you do.

Reveal of Gossip Girl

Since Gossip Girl first came out on DVD I have been getting it, and watching it that way, granted, it aired on the CW, I always stuck to waiting it out until the next season would release on DVD. I recently got the fifth season for Christmas from Kevin, and finished watching it over Christmas vacation, but that meant I had to wait until season six was released to once and for all, finish Gossip Girl. So I did a little research and learned Gossip Girl, the sixth season, would be coming out February 19th, so I waited. And to my surprise, that was supposedly not the release date at all, because whilst Valentines Day shopping for Kevin, I stumbled upon the sixth season, and knew, right then, I HAD to get it. Unfortunately, this season was SUPER short, especially compared to the other seasons, and barley took me three days to watch it. Now, by three days I don't even mean three full days, just tid-bits of the three days, needless to say, I was hoping it would take me much longer. All in all, it still holds to be one of my top favorite shows.
Besides watching Gossip Girl, I nursed by boyfriend back to health after unfortunately giving him my cold, a few bowls of chicken noodle soup, cans of ginger ale, and a package of cough drops later, he was feeling a bit more himself by the near end of vacation, which meant we could spend more time doing things together. So, we engaged in watching one of our mutual favorite shows, The King of Queens, due to one of his Valentines Day presents from me, the complete series.

And during the rest of vacation I finally gave in to Kevin asking me to play Black Ops 2, and decided I actually like it, a scary thought, but oh well. It's even gotten to the point where I'm even asking him sometimes if we can play. 

As for going out, Kevin and I had one date, that we decided was going to happen, and then we decided it wasn't, and then, once again, we decided it was. So, needless to say, we went to Pizza Hut. Our all time favorite place to eat...besides chinese. So of course, since we were making the trip out to Bangor, I had to go shopping, after all, I hadn't spent nearly any of my Christmas money on clothes and well, come on. So we departed off to Bangor and made our first stop at Marshall's. Afterwards, Kevin was hungry, so we decided to bump up our Pizza Hut visit a few hours. After Pizza Hut, we headed to T.J. Maxx, then the mall, then Target, and finally, we made it to the movies, where we saw Dark Skies. Which was much better than I expected, and we also got in for the kids movie price because of supposed audio problems, which we failed to really notice at all. 

                                                         

And last but not least, we decided to go snowboarding with Dylan and Lisa. Well, let's just say I didn't really think too much into this until I saw the mountain...until then, all that I was thinking about was the outfit I had to change into when we were done snowboarding, some recently purchased items from out date night that I was dying to break in...well, I'm thinking now that maybe I should have considered the snowboarding part a little bit more. Never having gone before, I honestly didn't see it to be too hard, get on the board, go down the mountain, and repeat, simple as that, right? WRONG. And I have the bruises to prove it. After falling off the ski lift when we're supposed to gracefully slide off of it with our snowboards, I managed to realize for the first time that once you're down, it's not easy to get back up, especially when the snowboard never stops moving. Well, let's just say, after nearly sliding into the woods one too many times, I decided to unhook myself from this death trap they disguise as a "snowboard" and walk down the majority of the mountain, and halfway down, I run into Lisa, also a first time snowboarder, I learned later her thoughts when she saw me were somewhere along the lines of "I'm doing what Carly's doing," Well, after making it down the mountain, finding Kevin, and surrendering,  I waited inside the lodge until he decided enough was enough, and our snowboarding career was over before it even began.

To me, my vacation was perfect. Just the right amount of everything--I could have done without passing my dreadful cold to Kevin--but besides that slight inconvenience, we had a joyful, stress-free vacation. Although it may have been 9 days long though, it went by faster than I can even comprehend.