Just finished off my second trip in America! For those of you keeping track at home, of my 10+ months in Nicaragua, I’ve been in the USA for a whopping 20 days in total now. But man, are they worth it! And I’d like to receive some praise for all of the nice weather that I brought with me…80 degrees in Chicago in March? Where do you think that comes from??
After traveling for 30 hours, I finally reached my home in Wheaton. After some wheat pasta and a liberal amount of red wine, I hit the sack suffering from near exhaustion. Thanks to a night in a temperature controlled environment, I was reenergized for a day at the dentist and then the zoo!
Thursday led me and my lucky date, Michelle, to Michigan my friend Wes’ rehearsal dinner. Michelle and I completed the night with some late night delinquency gambling at the shockingly nice Blue Chip Casino. The wedding on Friday was SO NICE! Great food, weather, wine and dancing; I’m ecstatic that I got to take time off to attend.
Saturday was St Patrick’s, or as some of us like to call it, St Pedro’s Day! Girlfriend Michelle and roomie Caroline were nice enough to offer up their apartment in Chicago as a party pad for the day. Between 10am and 9pm, more than 30 of my highschool and college friends must have stopped by. Super mega fun!
Sunday consisted of family bonding time and Monday they saw me off back to the jungle! To rival the inconvenience of the journey to the USA, my return flight landed in Managua at 12:15am. It’s great that my flights were actually on time but I’m now forced to wait until 5:15am when the buses start running… So close but yet so far!
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