Three Sleeps

Three sleeps until I hit the road (er, air?) for Costa Rica!

I'm maddeningly excited about the trip, albeit a little scared. I don't speak Spanish, but, enough to get through customs I hope.

The last time I was in a Spanish speaking country my life was so incredibly different than it is now, and I get teary and weak just thinking about it.

Thinking about all I believed and hoped for back then. I suppose that a holiday to a Spanish speaking country is a bookend to everything? Who knows.

I know I am a lucky one. I know that we'd all chose our problems over anyone else's, but, doesn't mean ours don't suck. And sometimes one just needs a break, a trip off the radar to forget, to recharge and sleep. For the love, I will sleep!! No internet to suck me in, no TV to distract me and who knows about phone coverage.

So, anyway, Costa Rica, ahoy! Also, I'm allergic to mosquitoes--I did not plan this out very well. ha!

And, when all else fails, let's just remember that THIS happens on Christmas day (it got pushed back here in the U.S--don't even get me started)--which is what, 98 sleeps? Y'ALL.