my spanish fan

My friend Kelley just returned from a vacation in Spain and brought me back this beautiful fan so I thought I'd jazz up a picture of it and share it on here. I haven't quite mastered the whole graceful flip of opening it yet but I am working on it and maybe it'll happen...eventually. She also brought me back a whole mess of postcards. I'm a super huge fan of postcards. I don't know why or when it started really but whenever my friends go on vacations, I always ask them to send me or bring me back a postcard or two. I have quite a collection going now. I have everything from a hideous close-up of George Bush to shnazzy views of the Eiffel Tower at night to summery images of Duck, NC and now all the way to Espana! Maybe I'll actually do something with them some day. I don't know what yet...maybe a collage? But not a stupid grade school one that has glue seeping out of the edges and is a complete mess. A nice one that could be framed or something. Who knows! Here's another picture for you...it's one of the cards Kelley brought me and is my favorite out of the bunch I think. The back says "Ediciones Asangre...Sevilla Espana". Not sure exactly what that all means but that's alright. I just liked the picture.

Looks like fun, right? I would love to go to Spain some day. And Ireland. And Greece. And Africa. No problem. I'll just get right on that right quick. I also want to go back to France. I loved it there. I've actually been there twice but one of those times was when I was about seven or eight so I don't remember a whole lot. I do remember walking up to the Eiffel Tower and being the small tot that I was at the time, could not see it over the trees. My loving brother goes "There it is!"...to which I stupidly respond "Where?!"...meanwhile, it's about a hundred feet away right behind the trees. And what did I get in return? "You're an idiot." How embarrassing. Anyways, I got to go back last summer with some girls from school and I loved it so much. I do like Paris and the Eiffel Tower is one of the most awesome monuments in my opinion but I realized that the country in France is also very nice. We stayed in a place that right now of course I cannot recall the name of. But the little hotel we stayed at was right on the water where there were probably hundreds of little sailboats floating around. When we went for a walk that evening, the views were literally the most picture perfect I have ever seen. The sun setting on a beautifully colored sky with the water and the boats! Perfect! I wish I could spend an entire summer there! I would never get sick of just sitting around looking at everything.

Anywho, I guess today's babble was mostly about traveling to foreign places which I absolutely love doing. It's terribly scary going to a place where hardly anybody speaks the same language as you, but thrilling and new and fun at the same time. I didn't go anywhere this summer...just stayed in Pittsburgh and worked away at Cinemark which is a serious bummer. But hopefully this upcoming school year I'll be making plans to study abroad or travel somewhere next summer! Fingers crossed!

Thanks for reading :)
Love,
Rachel