After 4 months...

... I finally have a second to post something on here!

Craziness has taken over my life for the past few months and I can't promise that it won't again in the coming months. School starting, sorority madness, that's really all it takes to keep me from having time to post anything on here. Maybe I will magically find some time to keep people updated with my life though! :) (Time machine, anyone?)

First of all, I guess I should fill everyone in on the fantastic events that took place over the summer....

Right after school got out for the summer, I went to Vegas and California with my mom, sister, Sara, and some other friends. It was a blast! We got to hang out in Disneyland for a few days and party it up in Vegas! Can life get any better? I submit that it canno... well, we'll see how you feel about that at the end of this post.

After that vacation, I came home and relaxed for a few days. The relaxation of these few (3) days consisted of doing an incredible amount of laundry that had been piling up in my old apartment, and packing for the next adventure of the summer....

And so it began... On May 14, my dad and sister dropped me off at the airport, and I got on the redeye flight to New York with a friend from my sorority, and we were off!

After landing in New York at 6:00am, Allison and I spent the day hanging out in New York. We didn't have time to do a whole lot, but we saw what we could and tried our hardest to stay awake the whole time. We got to walk inside the Empire State Building, and we hung out in Central Park for a few hours, we watched the taping of Good Morning, America, and were on tv for a millisecond, we saw Rockafellar square, and a few other things. Honestly, the only reason I remember some of those things is because I have pictures of them. I walked around like a zombie all day. Note: Redeye flight followed by a lot of hours of walking around a city like New York, or anywhere really, is NOT a good idea! (The first one is when we first landed in New York, you can already tell how tired we are! Followed by HOURS of walking around the City!)

After the longest day of our lives, Allison and I got on a plane and headed to Germany!! The next two and a half months were possibly some of the best months of my life. I spent the weeks in a little village called Gries (pronounced Greece) with an American family stationed with the army over there. The connection? There wasn't one. Allison talked to her Relief Society presidency, who talked to someone in the Relief Society out in Germany, who talked to the Stake Relief Society presidency, and we ended up staying with the Relief Society Stake President in the Military stake out there! It was incredible! And talk about small world, Susan was a president of her chapter in Lambda Delta Sigma (the LDS sororities that I am currently a president of). The family was incredible! In the house there were Allison, Allison (their 6 year old daughter), Susan, Brian, and me. It was amazing! They were such a generous family and willing to do anything for us! It was, honestly, the opportunity of a lifetime!

We stayed in Gries during the week most weeks and traveled on the weekends. We went all over Europe! It was INCREDIBLE! We went to Berlin, Homburg, Garmisch, Rothenburg, Neuschwanstein, Paris, Monkey Park, Cannes, Dublin, London, Rome, Florence, Cinque Terre, Madrid, Switzerland, Austria, and some other places that would probably not sound familiar to anyone (even though some of those probably don't sound familiar either). There are thousands of pictures from this summer, so here are highlights! ....