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 :)