Happy Holidays

MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL!

Congratulations to Cassie and Chris on there new baby boy :)

We are sad we will not be in New York with Charlie's family but we will be seeing everyone when the new Psillos arrives.

Warm Prayers and Wishes everyone!

Apartment Hunt: DONE!

Charlie and I have an apartment! We went to sign our year lease today. We are so excited. It really didn't take us too long to find a place. We called about probably 25 or so and ended up going into 2 and picking the first one we saw. We are right across the street from a high school, caddy corner to a shopping center and most important of all less then a mile to the beach. We actually have an ocean view from our bedroom. We walk maybe 6 blocks, 2 stop lights and we hit the sand.. Our move in date is new years. New chapter of our life which we are really excited about :) I will have pictures as soon as i can. We will be official residents of Oceanside.

Update

Well I have been slacking with these posts majorly...


Our trip to Puerto Rico was wonderful. Nothing could have been better. Our rental car was cheap, we didn't have any troubles like that usually pop up on a vacation, we didn't spend a lot of money, beautiful weather, great waves, and it was JUST FREAKING GREAT. We almost didn't leave..

We drove across country again! I don't think I will ever be able to get Charlie to do it again with me lol..We went from NY to TX in a straight shot, it took us about 23 hours. We were so happy to make it to his sister Jess's house and just pass out! Although with 3 year olds, a dog, and the babe we didn't sleep for long! We had a great time visiting with the Williams and we were sad to leave them. Rachel has fallen back in love with Charlie ( especially since Richie was no where to be found ;-) and we enjoyed spending sometime with them. We stayed about 3 days and then went straight to San Diego! That drive took us about 21 hours and we arrived in the wee hours of Sunday morning.

Now we are just adjusting back to life here in Southern California..By that I mean it's the middle of November and 70 with the sun shinning, don't worry about us we are adjusting just fine :) I have set up orientation for school and now we are on the hunt for apartments! We are planning to live near Oceanside Pier and there are quite a few listing so I don't think it will be much of a problem finding a place!

Our next venture is Thanksgiving. We are planning to go to Indiana for the weekend for my Grandmother's 80th birthday. Charlie is going to get a chance to meet some of my family and eat some Southern cooking!

Rincon, Puerto Rico here we come

Just wanted to let everyone know that tomorrow Charlie and I are leaving for Puerto Rico! We are ecstatic! We arrive in Aguadilla around 10am with Steve and Dana. We have rented a car to make our way South towards Rincon where we will be staying at Alex's house (family surf buddy from the beach). WISH US LUCK!

Pennsylvania

Well we went to PA this weekend for our last shabang. There was only 4 of us but it was beautiful there. The leaves started changing so the view is just reds, orange, yellow and a little bit of green left! The weather was pretty nice too. Definitely cool but the sun did peak out for most of the time we were there. We brought Johnson with us too, we did a hike, of course the boy's fished (and caught some big ones) and we made a fire. It was nice and relaxing. We also shot some bebe guns which explains a few of the pictures! There is also an old grave right near Kyle's house and some of the headstones are from the 1800's. We went at night trying to capture "creepiness" but we couldn't see anything and it just wasn't that scary. The headstones are so old that you can't read anything on them either. Charlie and I will miss going up there for the weekends. Here are some pictures! And a few videos from the big catch's.

I got in!!!

Well I don't know how many of you know that I have been going through the tedious and annoying process of applying for schools for the spring term. I applied to about 8 different schools; 3 CalState schools and the rest private universities. Because of the California budget cuts in the school systems I was pretty sure that I was not going to get into the California State school because of the fact that they are so overcrowded but guess what..I GOT IN! Not that it is some renowned or five stare acclaimed school but I got into the one school i really wanted to and that was California State University of San Marcos. School starts January 23! I am really excited. Charlie and I are planning on moving to Oceanside while I am going to school. We are finding some great deals on places by the beach and we are really looking forward to just having our own place again! I am so relieved to have gotten in and found out as soon as I did. I was expecting to wait a few more months..Now I can rest assured and completely enjoy myself on our vacation to Puerto Rico which we are going on this Saturday!

Other then that things are great, we went to PA this weekend and I won 100$ from a scratch off!! Can you believe that? I didn't think people even won any real money from those things :-p

Robert Moses Lighthouse

Charlie and I went for a walk at the beach to the Robert Moses Lighthouse. It was really nice. I got some really neat pictures because there was a storm rolling over us. It was still nice to be out. Not too cold, just right for Johnson not to overheat.. Looking at the pictures can make you feel like it is some desolate place of the Eastern Coast-not exactly New York. I had never been and really enjoyed it. I did a little research on Robert Moses and he was responsible for a lot of building during the latter part of the 1900's here in New York. He developed a lot of the expressways and I think to this day a lot of his work is controversial. A lot of his work promoted highways and not public transportation which signals signs of racism to me. I have also heard that due to the way he developed the bridges and off-ramps it prevented buses to ever travel much outside of the city and back then buses=immigrants & black people. But who am I too judge because hey I am one of the millions driving on his developments!

Ok now you can look at the pictures!

Oh btw, now that the fall time is here all the leaves have begun to fall and change colors. It is SOO beautiful and I am constantly in awe because this is a rare sight for a Southern Californian. We are planning to go to PA this weekend for our last shabang before Puerto Rico and our cross country drive and I am hoping to see trees of red, orange and yellows!

New Email

Just an FYI that I have a new email. Michelle.Svoboda@ymail.com. I was getting so much junk mail and weird messages from World of Warcraft...THEN there was an alert that someone was accessing my account in China!! So I thought it was time for a change. Update your address books!!

4 YEARS!

Today Charlie and I are celebrating our 4 year anniversary. We are going out to a place called Mangoes which is a Long Island attempt at Mexican food ;-) I am excited because since leaving SD i have been going through Mexican food withdrawls!!!

Anywho, sorry I don't have any pictures i have misplaced[lost] my camera! just sharing the loove <33 4 years and couldn't be happier because not only do i have a remarkable Charles Psillos in my life but i have acquired a whole new family too :)

Our List--Of Travels

I had this idea for a blog a little while ago when Charlie and I got back from Canada. Since I met him I have been keeping a journal with a lot of random things, songs we like, quotes, movie tickets, concert stubs, poems, actual journal entries, and a list of all the places we have traveled together. <3

We recently found out that at the end of October we will be traveling to Puerto Rico (my first time and i am so excited!)

Sometimes it get's tricky when you start to do the cities but eh it's your list, do it however you want :-p. I encourage you fellow traveling couples to respond with your's too or even my friend's who are single :) It is a small thing I have been doing and 4 years later I am happy that I have been doing it (that's right I said 4 years, it will be our anniversary at the end of this month!)

So here's the list:

San Onore, CA

Dingman's Ferry, Pennsylvania

Long Island, Montauk, NY

Tijuana, Rosarito, La Fonda, Mexico

Salt Lake City, Utah

Sequoia National Park, CA

Oahu and Big Island, Hawaii

Idylwilld, CA

New Paltz, NY

Santa Barabara, CA

San Luis Obispo, CA

San Francisco, CA

Santa Cruz, CA

Houston and Austin, Texas

Brentwood and Antioch, CA

WestPort, Ontario, Canada

Portugal

Drove through: New Jersey, PA, Delaware, D.C., Virginia, NC, Tennesse, GA, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, NM, AZ, NV, CO, NE, IA, IL, Indiana (soon to go there w/ charlie for my family reunion) and Ohio


I know for some of you the list is a lot longer but hey...Were working on it :)

Baby Tucker

I stole these pictures from Becky! Charlie's cousin Becky who lives in Hawaii (she completely welcomed us into her home when we were done with our stay at the eco-friendly farm in the Big Island) has a little rugrat of her own and she took a few pictures of us with the babe. Charlie and Tucker match, it's pretty cute!

Yankee Game Photos

About a month ago our friend Matt had extra tickets to the Yankee game and he invited Charlie and I to go. We had a great time. I never posted any pictures from it! The stadium was great. Although it was HUGE it still wasn't overcrowded and was easy to get food and walk to the bathroom etc. There was no one exceptionally obnoxious when we were there (probably because it was us) and I had an awesome time. It was definitely a fun ambience and experience. I watched the game for the first hour and then started to get distracted...Not so much so though that I knew the Yankees lost!!

ps-it's funny that half of the guys are all wearing sunglasses on the train...I don't know if they did that to look "cool" for the pictures or if they had them on before..crazy kids

Bad Connection

I have not been blogging anything because my internet connection has been so bad recently! I don't know what it is...It keeps telling me "connection timeout," so I took it to work and it is actually working here..hopefully i can take it home and it will still work!

Anywho I stole some pictures from Jess's blog from the family reunion Charlie had in NY.. Enjoy :)

Canada ay

Well this last week Charlie and I drove to Westport, Ontario, Canada with our friends family. We are close with his friend's family (Kyle). We are actually good friends with his younger brother Kevin too who lives in Huntington Beach, not to mention there family has known Psillos's for years. The drive was about 9 hours but it went by quick enough. We were fishing, making campfires, paddle-boating, swimming, cliff jumping and just relaxing. The boys also did A LOT of horse shoes. The trip was great. Kyle's Uncles came up too and they are really great people. His whole family is awesome! Plus since we actually had adults there we were eating real meals and not just grilled cheese and hot dogs! Even though we ate our share of those too. Charlie and I did our enchiladas one night, we had skirt steak, tacos, mediterranean pasta and Labatt Blue!!! Charlie and Kyle caught so many fish I couldn't even guess...One day they each caught nearly 20! There was a lot of Bass and primarily that's what they were getting.
We also did inter-tubing on the back of the boat, and lounged around on the tube's too! There were lots of spiders and snakes! We were seeing daddy-long-legs about the size of my hand! When we would wake up in the morning there would be 7-10 crawling around on our tent and all you could see is the silhouettes! Creepy but we got use to it quickly. There were also some jumping spiders and Garter snakes! We were actually on Garter lake so I guess that makes sense. Luckily I didn't see any when I was in the water only when hanging out on the dock but there were Copperhead snakes too! Other then that the wildlife was sort of minimal, lots of chipmunks, we heard lots of coyotes and saw some turtles. THey did have huge birds flying around whose wingspan probably stretched about 6ft! There were eagles and turkey vultures. I didn't take a ton of pictures because I would always forget my camera but I have a few of the cliff which was right across the lake from the cabin. I have a few pictures of my friends Lily and Kristen sitting on it...Now Mom take a breathe.. WE JUMPED OFF THAT CLIFF!! We only did it once but it is a good 50-60ft. It was exhilarating and frightening and the same time I can't even describe it. Kyle, Kevin, Charlie, Lily and then I jumped. I wasn't sore or in pain at all after. I have done some cliff jumping in my day in Hawaii and Pennsylvania but it never exceeded 30 feet so I felt very accomplished. It is a taste of what it would be like to base jump or something. I also have a series of pictures taken from the top of the cliff
We had a great time in Canada. We got stopped at the border on the way back so we had to fill out some forms and they went through our stuff. We looked like a couple of punk beach bum kids so I understand why! But it was a hassle..Anywho it was a great time. It was Charlie and I's 3rd out of country venture. I am going to post a blog soon that lists the places we have been for poops&giggles.