Oh the Places I've Been

A throwback to the States.

I was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky.

I go to school in Columbia, South Carolina.

I have family in Hawaii, California, Nebraska, Minnesota, Kentucky and New York.

I summer in Gulf Shores, Alabama.

I am extremely blessed to have a mom who is obsessed with traveling 'off the beaten path.' When my sisters and I were younger, we would have Girls Bonding Vacation to Florida. You would think it's a pretty straight forward drive from Kentucky to the beach, but not the way my mom drives. It would take us about three days with all the two-lane highways she drove. Looking back I can't complain. Every trip was an adventure in itself and the three girls would always vie to be The Navigator {a.k.a. sit in the front seat}. This was how it came to be that I've traveled the entire Southeast.

My one time "out West" was for a family reunion camping trip to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. Again, Mom packed Andrea, Shelley and I into the car for a week-long drive out to the park. Did I mention that we camped the entire way? The biggest highlight from that trip was setting up camp in the Rocky Mountains. We were in the middle of a storm and set the tent up in record time {and I'm talking about 3 minutes}. As soon as we had zipped up the outside, the storm broke sending hail and rain down onto our poor little shelter. That's how I came to conquer the Wild Wild West.

Best friends in Coney Island, New York

Trips to see family up in New York and Minnesota pretty much cover the rest of the country minus California and Nevada. These are my most recent adds to the states I've been. Back in January, I was asked by the company I interned for last summer to help with a location scout for a Toyota commercial in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Hell yes! It was such a fun trip and I can't wait to go back for "pleasure."

The next place I want to visit is Texas and Massachusetts. Where have you been? Link up here.

Cheers for now,
Kim

Thinking of You

Tonight I was facebook chatting with my best guy friend from back home Christopher. He just got back from his fraternity formal at Hilton Head. Last year I was his date and we had such a great time in Charleston. Direct quote from our convo:

oh and my fraternity had so much fun when u were on formal with us 2 btw

they were all like "take kim to formal again since were gonna be passing usc again!! she is so much fun!!" and i was like she's in australia....

umm how sweet are they? Here's a shout out to the fine Southern gentlemen of Phi Tau; I will be seeing you for Formal 2012!

Chris and I at Battery Park, Charleston

Also as if he couldn't be more sweet, Chris let's me know that he has bookmarked mine and Danica's blogs so that he could keep up with his ladies. Plus he showed Sratting Down Under to his mom who is a Kappa alum. How cute :)

Basically our little conversation put me in such a great mood. It's such a great feeling knowing that people are thinking about you, even when you are a whole continent away.

Cheers for now,

Kim

April Showers & Sydney Beaches

The stigma of April being a rainy month is definitely holding up. It's been raining off and on all day which is making being productive super hard. I have three papers due next week and my Dance Marathon Executive Board application is due today. Good thing there's a 15 hour time difference which gives me a little bit of a cushion for that. I am applying for a position on the external team in Media Coordinator or Dancer Relations. I am going to have to interview over Skype; how crazy is technology these days?

If I can muster up the energy to power through my homework assignments, I will be rewarding myself with a weekend getaway to Sydney. Some friends are staying at a resort in Coogee Beach (right next to the world famous Bondi Beach) for the weekend and have invited Katie and me. Surf, sand and relaxation. Wow that's motivation enough to get off the Internet and down to business, especially when it's going to be 70s, sunny and NO rain!

Wish me luck!

Cheers for now,

Kim

[SDU Note: OMG! I am pretty good with computers but guess what I just found out, that Windows has screen shot capture. I only thought Macs could do that. It's called the Snipping tool. Wow, am I the last one to figure this out?]