St. Thomas

I am in St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands. It's warm here. :) I am SOOO excited to be here!!! It is beautiful with mountains, green, and gorgeous water. I just arrived today and cannot wait to go play in the water. Kristin Hoopes lives here and is letting me stay with her. (She is so sweet!) She took me to some over looks of the island and to a beach with nice soft sand. I am so in my element. :) Maybe I'll just miss my plane back.
I'm here for a few days and then off to St. John. I am just relaxing and enjoying the warm weather. Life is wonderful! :)

Sing praises!

Yea and halleluja!!! I am finally done with school. I cannot even express my relief for being done. The weight of it has just been over whelming. When I finished my class presentation on Monday I came home and cried. I felt like I had just been let out of jail. All of a sudden I could do things again. I woke up on Tuesday at 5:30 and could have slept until 7:00, but I realized that I actually had time to clean so I got up and vacuumed and organized. It felt so good to be able to do what I wanted and to get organized, get my life back. I feel like a real person again. :) Emotionally I am doing much better too. Some friends at work said I was glowing. I told them it's because I get to go on a long vacation and I was finally done with my own torture for the semester.
I love December (when school is over!) :)

Birthday Celebration Continues in DC

Julie and I (and Julie's friend Alex) went on a home tour in Logan Circle this weekend. It was an extremely cold day (especially with the wind), but it was so interesting. We got to see several beautiful homes that had been renovated and some penthouse apartments. It's amazing what you can do with a lot of money. :)

Julie and I ate at one of my favorite restaurants Le Pain Quotidien in Georgetown. It so soooo good!!!! This is our cute waiter. He was so cute and even invited us to play pool with him sometime in Dupont. :)

Georgetown was all decked out for Christmas. I loved their snowflake trees. I just love Christmas lights in general. They just make me happy. :)

Just one more week and all of my school stuff will be done. I'm so happy it's all almost over!!!

Birthday Dinner

Mauree McIntosh, Carrie Johanson, Melissa Hill, me, Julie Bohn. Here we are on at the National Christmas Tree in DC. It was so pretty this year. :) Usually it is really ugly. I picked Mauree up and warned her that it is usually ugly. I was so pleased that it was so much better this year. We didn't get there until a little before 10:00 and it was closed. We were so surprised. It is a a tradition for us to go to the trees for my birthday. So fun. :)

Here I am outside Old Ebbit Grill.

Melissa Hill, Nicole Davis, me, Mauree McIntosh, and Carrie Johanson. This is the tree inside Old Ebbit Grill.

Julie and I at the National Christmas Tree. I really like this picture of us! How beautiful are we. :)

I have a final on my birthday this year so my friends and I celebrated early. I wanted to try a restaurant I had not been to. I remembered that I had heard really good things about Old Ebbit's Grill in DC so we went there. It's right across from the White House.) We had such a good time! They were extremely accommodating to my food allergies and brought a piece of cake for the table for me to blow out the candle even though I couldn't eat it. It was funny because the waiter would tell me what I could and could not eat. :)
I have such great friends!!! I feel so blessed to have their friendship. We went over to the National Christmas tree after dinner. It was raining a little, but not too bad.

Happy Thanksgiving

Julie and me the day after Thanksgiving.

Julie came down to spend Thanksgiving with me this year. I have tons of school projects to do and wanted to work on them over the break. Julie was a huge help and spent hours with me editing my paper. It's not due until next week and it's done. Yea! It may not have been such a fun break for her (or me), but it's exactly what I needed.:)
Julie and I ate really well at Thanksgiving dinner. I had turkey, ham, and lots of salad. Julie is trying to eat healthier so she ate like me. We were doing great until they brought out the fudge. I don't know why, but wow I wanted that fudge. So I turned to Julie and said I think that it's time to go. She agreed.:)
School is extra crazy right now as I have papers and projects to complete. I am building a website and really struggling with the CSS. I am hoping and praying that someone at school at help me fix the problems tomorrow. I just keep thinking that in less than two weeks I will be in the Caribbean playing in that beautiful water and actually relaxing. Oh, I can feel the wonderful breeze on my face. I am so looking forward to it!