Wanderlust

This summer is going to be one for the books. I mean, all of them have been, but this one will be simply amazing. I know because we have a flight booked (no return one however), an apartment in Paris ready for June, plans for meeting our Euro friends, and tons of friends leaving on missions. It's all very exciting, new, unknown, adventurous, and bitter sweet. I mean I'm graduating High School and turning eighteen!!!! It's crazy!
When I read or hear or look at pictures from my mom's Europe trips at about my age, I get butterflies. I've heard these stories since I was little, and now I'm living my own! I never would have dreamed I'd get to go to Europe every year of my High School experience, or that I'd create friendships thousands of miles away. It all just happened!
Well...it didn't just happen. There was a lot of planning, saving, working, studying, praying, researching, begging and waiting.
Someone recently said immediately after hearing our summer plans, "You are so lucky!"
Of course we are incredibly lucky. We have trusting parents, ways to earn money, supportive family, and knowledge/experience/wisdom about travel. But luck only takes you so far. We've worked really hard to fulfill these dreams. I'm so grateful for my parents for helping me and letting me see the incredible value of travel.