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A Snowy Spring Break

Spring break came and went a little too fast for my last year at UF. Regardless, my spring break was amazing, but a little different than how others spend their spring breaks! Instead of booze cruisin' or basking in the sun, I made my way up to D.C., Maryland and Pennsylvania. Before this trip, I had never seen snow before. I'm going to be 22 this year. Figure that one out. Unfortunately I couldn't pack up the Florida warmth to bring up north because it was crazy cold! At least three out of the six days I was there the snow was coming down heavy, which was beautiful to watch, but awful to go out in.

Processed with VSCOcam with c1 presetAnyway, the reason I flew up north was to visit my boyfriend, Michael, who began his career with Men's Health Magazine in January, and the company's headquarters are located in Emmaus, PA. He's too cool, I know. (Can you say dream job?) It had been two months since we saw each other. May will mark a year of  living more than 1,000 miles away from each other, but that's a story for another time! Safe to say I was crazy excited to leave Gainesville for the week.

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703166_10203559772466269_200364754_o[P.S. these lovely photos from D.C. were taken by Michael's cousin, Luke (left above,) who is an awesome photographer and you can check out his work at lukedivita.com] We started out in D.C. because I found a $29 flight into Dulles. You read right, $29. I did my airline stalking! I had never been there before, and the city is beautiful! We met up with Luke, who lives in Richmond and we all went to see the Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument and the Portrait Gallery.

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After exploring D.C., we made a pit stop at the University of Maryland to visit another one of Michael's cousins, Michael (there's a third Michael in their family as well. Michael cubed.) We finally made it back to Allentown, PA on Saturday night to enjoy a few days of relaxing, catching up and enduring the crazy weather together.

On Monday we drove down to Philadelphia and had lunch at the Reading Terminal Market at DiNic's. It was the winner of Travel Channel's 'Best Sandwich in America,' so naturally that was our first choice. I got a huge (I'm talking 12-inch) roast pork sandwich with provolone and spicy peppers and managed to devour the entire thing. It was pretty damn good. Couldn't let the best sandwich in America go to waste, duh.

Philaselphia^City of Brotherly Love, or as Michael captioned it, Philaselphia.

I flew out of Allentown on a crazy snow day and I totally thought the flight was going to be canceled, but it was just delayed about six hours, no biggie. Fun fact I also flew out the same morning that the plane at LaGuardia skidded when it was landing on the icy runway. I was a little freaked out, but made it home safe and sound! Note to self - try to avoid flying  in snow storms.

Hope everyone else enjoyed their spring breaks!

Peace out,

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Halfway Through March? #TBT

Gooood afternoon! This morning started with a HUMID three mile run and the usual breakfast of eggs, bacon & fruit. I can tell that summer is nearing in Florida.

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Today feels like a Friday for me because tomorrow I'm heading up to Auburn University with my co-workers at the gym to attend the Evolve Fitness Conference!  I'll have a recap post up about the whole conference up after the weekend. Don't get me wrong, UF's gyms will always be my absolute favorite but I am SO excited to see Auburn's recreation facility, which is always ranked among the top in the nation.

Anyway, can we just stop and think for a hot minute how it is already halfway through March?! There's a month and a half left of school. In light of graduation right around the corner, I would like to do a quick #tbt and reflect on how awesome this entire year has been.

For one, I took a cross country road trip to Los Angeles before moving to NYC last summer for an internship. That was quite a crazy summer! One for the books. I might be back there this summer. IDK. Who knows??

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And there was my last time going to Florida home games as a student. I will be back. My sister (chica with me in the above Brooklyn Bridge photo) got into UF and will be moving here in the summer. That's four more years that I can come back and pretend to be a student! #ItsgreatUF. ALWAYS.

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And just recently for spring break I was lucky enough to visit two new cities I had never been before, D.C. and Philadelphia. They're both awesome. Soon I will have a spring break post to share!

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I feel really grateful for all of the opportunities that have come my way. I tend to get stressed a lot on a daily basis with everything I have going on currently (school, job, internship,) but I know that everything I am doing is for a reason. I'm so ready for this last month and a half of school. Hopefully by May 2 I am employed. I just keep telling myself that the big things always work out. Isn't it true?