it is exciting and kinda scary to start a blog, but the reason for starting the blog is awesome!!
i have moved to puerto rico!!! :) NEVER in my life did i ever imagine i would move to puerto rico....let alone move anywhere more than a couple hours away from mom and dad!! (I have the best family anyone could ask for!) But I did it!
My boyfriend Chris and I got to puerto rico last night. We both just graduated from college in May '09 with degrees in Technical Photography. i was/am not to keen on the idea of completely entering the "real adult world". so here we are in puerto rico. Vieques to be exact. it is a small island off the east coast of the main island. it is about 25 miles east to west and about 4 miles north to south. we are living in a house with two of chris' friends from back home that he went to middle school with.
so chris and i flew from raleigh to atlanta, atlanta to san juan and then we took a very small (9 passenger) twin engine low wing plane to vieques! I was verrryyy nervous about the puddle jumper of a plane where the man from the airlines asks you how much you weigh (which is something i usually do not share with someone i just met, i didnt even catch his name!) and then weighs everything that you have with you! so this plane would have to carry all of us, and our bags....one of which was mine that weighed a ton. (actually 49.5 lbs!) So we wait a little while until they call us all to board the plane and we put all our carry on's in this compartment in the wing! chris and i were the 2nd and 3rd people on the plane but the first woman on the plane got to sit in the co-pilots seat!!! holy batman i wanted that to be me!!!! :) but i got to sit right behind the pilot and i mean right behind the pilot.... i was all up in his bubble... the seat was like 3 inches from the pilots seat! So me being oh about 5'4" i was able to fit alright and but poor chris at 6' he had to fold himself up in order to get in! Then we got our instructions from the pilot and then he started engine 1 and then engine 2 and we taxied to the runway and we were off!!! i know i said that i was nervous about this flight......but "that was aweeesssomee!!" (if you've seen tommy boy you should know how this is said! :) seriously it was so cool! (minus the few air pockets we hit when it felt like we fell about 20 ft) oh and the landing) but other than that it was so cool! being so close to the pilot you really get a sense of what it is like to fly a plane, i have no idea what the gauges do but they were really cool to look at! :) i just have no clue how they know where they are going, its not like there are street signs or arrows in the air? crazzy! but we made it to the "airport" and got our bags and got picked up and headed to the house. we just relaxed for the rest of the night and went to bed kinda early we were very tired!
i will be posting some pictures of the house soon, and we went snorkeling today at mosquito pier (i was happy to find no mosquitos!) we saw 2 squid, alot of star fish, pretty fish, ugly fish, a flounder, eels, and these little snot ball looking things that i would freak out about because i thought they were baby jellyfish but i guess they were not, but really they looked like snot balls and felt like snot balls...gross.
Anyways we are here safe, sound and a little sweaty but really excited!! i will try to keep up the posts as the days go by and put up pictures too!
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you're so funny - io - mom
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