WHEN THINGS DON'T GO ACCORDING TO PLAN
I like to think that I am an expert traveller. My mum is a travel agent for goodness sake. I was raised to travel. And that I've done. England, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Ukraine, Belgium, India, Hong Kong, Trinidad, Mexico. I love airplanes and everything about them. This has always been my mindset.
Until things don't go according to plan.....
I am a planner. I like neat trip itineraries. I memorize all my flight times. I always know where my passport is. We planned our most recent vacation very well. Three nights in Austin, a short flight to Fort Lauderdale and then 7 nights on a Caribbean cruise...YES. The plans were good and doable.
Our time in Austin was wonderful. We sooo enjoyed our time with Ryan & Joy. We even enjoyed their crazy stormy weather....until it messed up our travel plans. Now I'm not going to go into a travel plans gone horrible rant here but I will say our travel plans got heavily messed up due to weather and we ended up missing our cruise by two hours. Bummer. Thankfully, I have a wonderful mum who quickly booked us a flight to Turks & Caicos the next day so we could meet up with our cruise the following morning.
Through it all, I kept asking God..."WHY!!!"....we prayed for things to work out and they were not working out and I wish I could tell you He told me some amazing reason for why it didn't work out for us but the honest truth is "I don't know?" but what I do know is sometimes things don't always go according to plan and that's okay. You cannot control everything and that is okay...that is more than okay. Life can sometimes be very unpredictable and it can be very annoying but all you can do is continue to trust God and know that He is good and He is faithful. In the end, things will work out.
And they did end up working for us. We arrived on the island of Grand Turk, we stayed in a cute little hotel, witnessed a beautiful sunset and met up with our cruise the next morning and enjoyed five nights of Caribbean bliss.
And how good is that sunset?
xo,
laura
HELLO WEEKEND
It's Friday and here's to hoping on scoring BIEBER TICKETS at 10am!
Tomorrow I'm going to a pie making class with my momma and sister and I cannot wait!! We each leave with a pie and I'm hoping that we also get to sample lots and lots of pie....mmmmm.
James comes home in two days...BOOYAH. I've found this tour the hardest..probably because when he's away it's only me looking after our students. On the last tours if I was super tired after a long day of work, I could make a smoothie or eat a bowl of cereal and call it a day...not so much with international students...
Another reason why I'm so excited for James to come home is CHRISTMAS DECORATING can begin! He's going to build a mantle for our fireplace and I can't wait to decorate the junk out of it!
"Yes the world is scary as hell, love anyway." <------ yes. Love is what He asks of us, isn't it?
Hope you have a wonderful weekend!!
xo,
laura
P.S. Sorry I haven't posted as regularly as I usually do! I've been feeling a little bit under the weather...hopefully next week I'll be getting back to 3x per week! I still have lots of photos from our vaycay to share with you and oh my goodness, let the Christmas baking games begin!
THE RETURN OF THE TURTLENECK
Love it or hate it, turtlenecks have made a BIG comeback. I personally haven't bought one yet (trying to avoid buying clothes for awhile!) BUT I definitely want one. They're cozy and look great under a leather or canvas jacket.
HELLO WEEKEND
Can someone please take me back to the Caribbean? Like back to this place above (Magen's Bay) where the BUTTERFLIES FLUTTER ALL AROUND YOU.
Meanwhile it's pouring rain here in Victoria and James just left for a ten day tour :( (#bandwifelife) BUT my hopes are high because CHRISTMAS IS COMING! If the new Justin Beiber album just didn't come out I would so be listening to Christmas music all day.
Any of you Sephora VIB's going to the sale this weekend!!? I'm going tonight and need to stock up on a few favourites of mine...
- This mascara! I'm sold. It's been better than any other mascara I've worn in the past year.
- My favourite toner. Love me some salicylic acid tingle.
- THE BEST LIP BALM EVER. Since coming back my lips and hands are being annoyingly dry. They usually aren't this bad....must be Caribbean withdrawal.
Aaaaaand I'll probably pick up a few Christmas prezzies because you only get 20% off once a year!
Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
XO,
laura
AUSTIN, TEXAS
I seriously cannot believe that two weeks ago we were in Austin! And one week ago we were in St. Thomas and now it's 4 degrees over here in lovely Victoria, BC. (insert crying face emoji)
Today I'm finally showing photos from our trip....Jet lag has been doing a serious number on me....last night was a miracle because I went to bed at 9:30pm...the past two nights were 8pm and then BOOM 5:30am wide awake!
We had such a lovely time in Austin visiting Joy (James' sis) and her hubby, Ryan. They are the loveliest and are expecting baby boy Sebastian in January! The weather was super warm the day we arrived and then the next day BOOM flash flooding...which kinda did a number on our trip because of rain we ended up missing our cruise but I'll get to that at a later point lol....I would still do the Austin portion all over again because our time with them filled our hearts oh so much!
We had so much fun exploring Austin. And the food was something else. Serious food babies all around. Thai-Kun had amazing vibes and we finally got to try Shake Shack! And oh-my-goodness on our last night we experienced true Texan BBQ at Salt Lick....soooooo good.
And oh my goodness how cute is Joy's baby bump?
Oh Austin, you were fun and we will definitely be back!
xo,
laura