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The countdown begins (100 days)

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It feels like forever we've been planning this trip, it's probably been about four years. We always said that when we graduate we needed to take a trip away and where better than the happiest place on earth, it's almost unbelievable that we will soon embark on this trip to remember. In just over 100 days we will get on a plane and meet up in Florida to step foot in the happiest place on earth and to say 100 days can't go fast enough is an understatement (although the money crunch does also set in). Along with sharing our excitement I thought we could also share some tips and tricks we've picked up on booking a dream disney vacation. We put in a lot of research into how to book, the best time to go, the best discounts, Disney on a budget, if there was a video we watched it, if there was a blog post we read it. And while we would have loved to go all out, stay somewhere like the Animal Kingdom Lodge and have a view of the animals from our balcony we knew we would

Reflection

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You know those days where your mind just wanders and you end up fantasising about your future or reflecting heavily on your past, well that happened to me today. I don't know if there was something added to my muffin or I'm suffering from minor exhaustion but my mind decided to take me back to my first year of high school. We're talking almost 9 years ago yet my mind remembers exactly how I felt as a small child walking the halls of high school surrounded by people I thought were adults, twice the size of me, scared and overwhelmed and now I've graduated from university. Now the reason I write this post is not to talk about how much I've grown since then but to help people who feel so stuck in the moment, like there is no future or no hope of getting past something because in high school, where I am now seemed so far away, it felt like I would be in high school for the rest of my life. I struggled with friendships, I had moments where I questioned if it was worth