Travel is Universal

When I got back to NJ from SC, OMG, I had to pack another set of clothes for Orlando, FL!!! Such a hectic, hectic life. My aunts and I were off to Universal Studios in Orlando the next day. I would've absolutely loved this heady rush of traveling all over the US if I wasn't being an Eeyore the whole time. It's time to get my Tigger back!!!

And I was a kid again. Minus the worries and the pain and the memories of mistakes committed that would stay with me like a gaping wound.

Travel is good for the troubled spirit.

City Walk with Aunt Vinia

with Aunt Vita, the champion hula-hooper

Yeah, right! Like I would ride this thing.

Between a Lake and a Hard Place

I am such a slowpoke. I woke up very early the next day to iron my hair (yup, I'm vain like that!) and ended up having to tie it in a very unattractive ponytail since Camille was there early and they were ready to leave for Chimney Rock, North Carolina.

Lunch at Larkin's by the Lake with my uncle, 2 cousins and my cousin's fiance, Mike. Great, great seafood. But nothing beats the view here. It's not called Lake Lure for nothing.

Chimney Rock, brother of Chris

This is Uncle Vince, who looks and acts so much like my dad and Vinnie at the back. Taken inside the cave going up Chimney Rock.

I hate any sort of climbing. I climb subway steps, get into 49th and Broadway and I'm energized in a way no mountain ever could. Pardon me but I'm a city girl through and through.

View of Lake Lure atop Chimney Rock, Vinnie never smiles...

View of the opera box from Chimney Rock

View of Chimney Rock from the opera box