October 27, 2008

Have I ever told you how beautiful the mountains are? I feel like that people who live in this area take them for granted because people from all over the country come to see them. I think that living right next to them is just about the coolest thing ever. The environment that they create is just different and you can’t find that anywhere else around the world. I think that because I have grown up here all my life that I would miss them if I moved somewhere else.

Speaking of moving, I just recently moved - but I still have my mountains! J - I just moved away from all of my friends and family and it’s kind of weird. I was so used to having them around me and now they’re far away and I haven’t seen them in so long. Looking back I think that my senior year was kind of like my “glory days” of my life so far. All of my very close friends and me were getting ready to leave for college and just having fun because of it. We were trying to have as much fun as we could because we wouldn’t see each other in a few months and we were just making the best of it. We did stuff that we had never done before and we just grew closer, you know? We reached that part in our life where we would be leaving each other and it sucked. It really did. But it was good. Kind of bittersweet, almost.

Moving away from my family was hard too. I was fascinated by how much I missed them when I moved. But the holidays are coming up so I get to see them all pretty soon. We get together for every Thanksgiving and Christmas and have a dinner. It’s pretty cool how we all go over to my grandma’s and just hang out. My grandma makes the best food, its amazing. Usually after we’re done eating we’ll break out some kind of game and like eight or nine people will be playing and it’s a lot of fun because our family usually doesn’t get together like that. Only during the holidays.

Lots of Love,

Lexi