What rhymes with Junior Year? ADIOS

Schoooooool's out for summer!
Schoooooool's out......... till June 21st.

Finals are finally wrapped up, and summer is a go.  And THANK GOODNESS for that!  This semester had a whole lotta craziness built up into it, especially due to one class that I can easily deem as my least favorite class I've ever had in my entire life.  But hey, that's a-okay. I'm writing this post BEFORE I get that final grade back; if I wrote this post-grade, it would be much more cynical and severe and jaded.  Deuces, mon ennemi, c'était vrai, et je te déteste.

Now, it's time to switch gears from work mode to relaxation mode, and a cruise is quite the perfect thing to aid in the transition.

What I'm looking forward to:

   * Being at one with nature.  Living in Columbia, there's not a whole lot of real great scenery, other than Five Points, naturally or the concrete beach parking lots of Copper Beech.  So, it'll be really nice to get to a REAL beach and have "my toes in the water, ass in the sand, not a worry in the world, a cold beer in my hand", as the wise Zac Brown Band says.  Life indeed will be good those days.

   * Knockin another activity off the bucket list.  This is my first cruise and I'm stoked.

   * Standing at the front of the boat with Rickey and Kaleb behind me and saying "I'm flying!".  Consider my inner-Rose channeled.  Thank God we're crusing the Caribbean, though, and there won't be any icebergs.

   * Clear water.  As trivial as this sounds, I can't wait to swim in the ocean like a little fish.  I CANNOT WAIT to snorkle.  I'm a Pisces, and the larger portion of my childhood was dedicated to pretending I was the Little Mermaid, so naturally snorkling will put me back at home with my girl Ariel and the gang.  The extent of my beach travel has brought me to the exotic tropics of Ocean City Maryland and Virginia Beach, with waters so clear that I can only see my hand at about 1 inch of depth in the water.  I can't wait to be able to see my feet at 5 feet in depth...... *insert joke about me being short here*

   * Getting so tan that people think I'm another race.  I've been pre-gaming this one for quite some time now.

In homage to Cinco de Mayo, I bid thee adios to school, and hola to Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Saint Thomas, and Turks and Ciacos.