Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
-Miriam Beard

man it looks cold outside..and i'm wearing sleaveless..great..stupid weatherman..well maybe it looks cold..but it's really humid out..i'll see at lunchtime i guess.

so we're leaving for costa rica this friday on the red eye flight..i feel like i'm not as excited as i should be..don't get me wrong..i've ben soooo looking forward to this vacation..i think i'm just in that stress mode right now..getting everything settled with the travel agent..still trying to decide what clothes to bring..ha! i haven't even opened a suitcase yet to pack!!..and then there's the monotonous work week lying ahead of me..i'm sure the excitement bug will kick in in full throttle thursday night..haha..by then i should be good to go..

i still can't believe i'll be in costa rica this saturday..i'm sure once we land it'll all feel so surreal. my dad keeps comparing it to the p.i. though.

me: "yah we're going to the rainforests dad!"
his response?
dad: "oh we have lots of rainforests in the philippines! but then if you go there (in p.i) you might get kidnapped." grreat!

me: "well, we're going to arenal too! one of the most active volcanoes in the world!"
dad: "ay, the philippines has volcanoes too! that might be dangerooooos"

me: "what do you want me to bring back for you? i heard their coffee is good."
dad: "coffee? that's all they have? okay yah, bring me coffee then"

hahahha thanx dad for making my trip sound as exciting as any old family vacation we could have in the pi. he's so funny sometimes..i know he's happy i'm traveling though..he wants me and my sisters to go to as many places as we can before we settle down..cuz i know he wanted to do that too..i hope he does when he retires though!..so yah..i'm making sure that by the time i'm 28 i'll have been to all the places on my worldly travel list..yeeha..

until then i have to get through this work week..blah..why work? can't we all just barter for stuff like the olden days? things just seem so much easier back then.