Summer Time!

Well, I made it through my first year of law school. It was a rough year and I'm so glad it's over. I have some exciting plans for the summer too! For the first part of the summer, I'll be doing an internship working at a non-profit organization in the special education division. It's right up my alley being a former teacher so it should be a good learning experience. Today was my first day and I already have some exciting assignments to do.

The second part of the summer will be spent here~

You may be asking yourself where this fabulous place is?

Well, it's Madrid, Spain! I'm going to be doing a study abroad there for a month. I'm so excited about it. I'm also planning weekends trips to Barcelona and a few other places in Spain. I've only been overseas one other time and it was a blast. I'm also a little nervous because I don't speak spanish but I'm sure I'll manage to get by. I'm hoping to be able to update the blog with pictures while in there so everyone can see all the wonderful things I'm doing!

On a total sidenote- It's also about a million degrees here in Texas and I'm just about melting to death every time I go outside. It is SOOOOO HOT! I hope it is not this hot in Spain (although I think it usually is).

The Rest of Vacation: Days 3-7

So I figured I'd better write about the rest of my vacation that happened in JUNE! I've been so busy that I've hardly had any free time.
After going to Hershey, PA, my mom and I drove 3 hours to New York City. We spent 4 days and 3 nights exploring all the great things the city has to offer. We saw the Empire State building, Rockefeller Plaza, the Today Show, Brooklyn, Ground Zero, Central Park, Little Italy, the Fashion district, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, Times Square, Madame Tussauds, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Ray Romano outside of David Letterman. We also ate hot dogs from the street vendors, bought 7 t-shirts for $10, took a double-decker bus tour of the city, and walked about a million miles. Our hotel room was the smallest room I've ever seen but it was only 1 block from Central Park so I didn't care. I was so sad to leave such a wonderful place but I know I'll be back there someday!
Here are some of the hundreds of pictures I took of the trip! Warning- there are lots of pictures but I couldn't chose just a few! Enjoy!

Times Square!



The ball from New Years Eve

On the double-decker bus tour. It rained but the ponchos helped!

The wall of tiles in remembrance of September 11-

Ground Zero-

In Brooklyn, with NYC in the background-

Brooklyn Bridge

Beginning of the night tour of the city


From the Real Housewives of NYC-

















As close as I got to Matt and Ann- I went to the Today Show the day after Michael Jackson dies so they didn't come outside and it was pretty quiet around the plaza.



Little Italy- yummy food!


The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Michael Jackson died the day we took this tour. There was a gathering outside the Apollo theater to remember him.


Tavern on the Green in Central Park

John Lennon Memorial

John Lennon's house


Fountain in Central Park

Our hotel- The Hudson. It was a fabulous hotel.

Our room was soooo small. We could hardly move in it!

The bathroom- small again

The hallway- I had to lay open my suitcase in this hallway to get out my clothes. There was no other place to put it!

On the way back home, we stayed in a hotel that had a hot tub in the bedroom. It was crazy!

Summer Vacation- Day 1 and 2

I took so many picture of my one week vacation, I'm going to have to do several posts to get it all in. Here is day 1 and 2 of our trip.
Mom and I left Geneva on June 22 at 5:30 in the morning. We spent the day driving to Harrisburg, PA. 12 hours in the car is a long time and we were exhausted when we got there.


We had to drive through the mountains to get there. I do not like driving through mountains. This is one of the tunnels I had to drive through to get to Harrisburg.

We spent the night at:

This is the view from the parking lot. Gorgeous!

The next day we drove to Hershey, Pa (about 10 minutes away from the hotel) and Chocolate World! We tasted chocolate, saw how it was made, took a tour of the town, and went to a museum all about Milton Hershey, the creator of Hershey's Chocolate. All of this in one day!





Where the chocolate is made!






Milton Hershey founded a school for orphans and lower income children. He left his $60 million fortune to the school when he died. Today, the school educates around 1,800 children.

Hershey Park- didn't get to go here but it looked like so much fun. I love amusement parks!



All the street lights in Hershey were Kisses!


At the end of the day, we drove 3 hours to Newark, NJ to spend the night before venturing off across the Hudson River to New York City!