Wanderlust.

Tomorrow at 11:15 a.m. I will finally be leaving for Europe! I’ve been getting pretty anxious to get going because all the other study abroads left about 2 weeks ago.  For those of you who I haven’t bragged about this to yet, I will be spending the next 6 weeks traveling to Italy, Greece, Germany, France, London, and Ireland. I am feeling an overwhelming amount excitement mixed with a lot of anxiety. It will be nice to take a break from reality. I don’t want to waste my time or money by getting on the Internet, so that means no email, fb, pinterest, or blogging. And I’m not taking my cellphone. My mom did make me promise though that I would call home once a week, just so she knows I haven’t died or something.

And yes, this is everything I will be living on for the next 6 weeks.

Goodbye America, Hello Europe!

Masters of Infinity.

I met Charlotte Searle in the 6^th grade. I was the loner new girl who stood by the door at recess because she didn't have anyone to play with. Then one day a girl named Charlotte invited me to play four-square with her. We have been friends ever since.

A picture is worth a thousand words. And I have about a million pictures of me and Charlotte. So that should give you a hint as to how much time we have spent together over the past 10 years.

In our prime years of 8th grade

EFY

Junior year Monster Mash

Don't worry Charlotte, I won't tell anyone where we were
 when this was taken

Senior year Concerto Night

Not really sure the context of this picture....

Just some midnight basketball

The night of a thousand jumping pictures

The night we decided to move our mattresses
 into the kitchen for a sleepover, even though faith
was in there with her bf

Frolicking on the California beach (best picture ever)

HP forever!

Best Friends

Anyone reading this will understand that when you've spent this much time with someone, it is inevitable that you will have A LOT of inside jokes with that person. With that said, the next part of this post might only make sense to Charlotte....so don't keep reading unless you're bored, because there are quite a few. You were warned. 

fiddler on the roof/basket dance/bye bye birdie/the millions of calculus study groups we had/masters of infinity sweats/freaking out about concerto night/efy/flying like an eagle with a blanket/albino/music 202 with professor howard/long haired girl/eating lunch with the boy who said dude incessantly/fb chatting at the same desk/crepe parties/par core (spelling?)/it would be horrible to die of starvation so eat lots of cheez its/bagels/locking myself out of our room after you'd gone to bed/stealing emily's clothes and worrying she would kill us/stealing danielle's clothes while she was in the shower/spying on me through the peep hole and the heat vent when i was trying to talk to a special someone/duck lip jane eyre/jane austen marathon/our crazy orchestra conductor/ms. belnap (there are many in this category but that would take too long)/rape whistles/harry potter midnight showings/when we almost died coming back from said midnight showing/"what are you in line for?", "um...the vow..."/california trip and we got fried/monster mash junior year/ maclane waiting on his porch to be picked up/"you have got to be joking"/andre our efy counselor/shake the car!/putting the thong on fatih’s lamp/when Emily pantsed you/MLIA/that one time when heather…like…well….you know…./trying to translate mrs. glenn's norweigen/ susan with her black pants and white shirt/fawning over romeo in gill's class.

There are probably many more, but that's all I can think of right now.

Charlotte is leaving on her mission in about three weeks, and since I depart for Europe on Tuesday, I won't see her again for 18 months. I will miss her lots.

Good Luck on your mission Charlotte! I'll make sure to send you some Parisian candy (and yes, Parisian is in fact a word that refers to the people of Paris, France). 

Team Ellett.

Last weekend, my roomies and I decided to take a road trip to California. We hit up Reno on the way there, spent a day in San Francisco, and ate way too many jelly beans at the Jelly Belly Factory. But the main reason we went was because Carlie got married in the Sacramento Temple.

Car and Port’s wedding was beautiful and absolutely perfect. Since Car and I were pretty much inseparable last year, I had the privilege of experiencing first-hand many of the major stages in their relationship. I was there when they first met, I was there when they first hung out, I was basically the third wheel on their first date, I was there when they first kissed (just kidding...but I was with them right before), and just the countless hours we spent together the rest of the year. So after a 10 month engagement, it was so wonderful to see them finally getting married.

Next semester, the girls of Madison 2 are all going separate ways, and I’m really going to miss them.

We’ve come a long way from when we used to just run around dressed up as ninjas.  

Congrats Mr. and Mrs. Ellett!!