Well I've been back in Gainesville for only five days now. I got back in late last Wednesday night. The drive was boring and depressing. It felt like as soon as I crossed the Florida/Georgia border, all my anxiety and homesickness came back. So you can imagine how delighted I was on Friday afternoon when Andrew told me he was coming home three and a half weeks early! I got his flight moved up to Saturday and he spent the entire day flying from Madrid to Newark to Orlando, where I picked him up late Saturday night. We drove to his parents lake house in Dunnellon and spent the night catching up, exchanging souvenirs from our trips, watching movies, and eating good 'ole American food. We made a big breakfast when we woke up and his sister, Ashley, met us at the lake house around noon that day. We all went out to lunch and spent the afternoon fishing (unsuccessfully) and watching Cars. When we finally got back into Gainesville, Rags went insane. It's safe to say Rags missed Andrew as much as I did and they have apparently been bonding all day while I've been at work. I'm sure he's been busy all day especially trying to get his apartment back in order three weeks earlier than he was planning on.
Anyways, I am so glad he is home. I'm glad he went but I think that two and a half months is an awful long time to be in a foreign country where you don't speak the language, especially since his classes there ended a few weeks ago. It's great to have him back. Patrick and Alli will be back from their honeymoon in a week or two and Christina will be moving back from Baton Rouge in two weeks, so all of our friends will be back where they belong in no time! And before we know it, classes and football season will start, along with internships/jobs and organizations that we're involved in so who knows when we will get to all hang out. I'm glad we have a month before all that madness begins. Best of all, Andrew is back in time to play in
Underwater Hockey Nationals this weekend, which neither of us were planning on playing in, but now that he's home, he can and he can also continue trying to convince me to play too. We'll see ;)
I finally uploaded pictures from
Patrick and Alli's wedding and the rest of my
road trip. Here's a few I like:
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