This is so addicting

I remembered what else I need to bring. Dry shampoo or whatever it's officially called. I'm gonna try to find a happy medium between avoiding showers and being outstandingly grimy.

Well so far the small group I'm traveling with is planning on staying in Queenstown, New Zealand for a few days and then packing everything up in this psychedelic mystery machine and taking off down the coast of NZ -

I'm so proud of her...



Anyways, in order to spare my fellow travel-mates (Joe, Brenna, Christine, and Kaylee, sup guys!) a tremendous amount of displeasure, I'm gonna pack extra large portions of deodorant and this mysterious "dry shampoo" that everyone keeps talking about, because I don't anticipate a whole lot of opportunities to shower on this road trip.

Cool so,

•  underwear
• bugspray
• dry shampoo
• deodorant
• CAMERA
• money

It's a work in progress. I was also thinking about what I could buy as a poisonous animal repellant...WD-40? I hear it has like 101 uses (*ahem* Jules). Hey so, there was this one time freshman year when my door was squeaky and I pulled out a can of the WD and Julia Segeleon, my roommate who had never seen WD-40 before was all confused and I had to explain to her what it was. Pah! It was funny, but you probably had to be there. Needless to say, she does not know the magic of the blue and yellow aerosol can.

I had to say goodbye to a bunch of people that I'm really fond of this weekend. Although I know it's not a final goodbye, it still sucks a litt......a lot. I've kind of reverted to this fake reality in which I convince myself that I'm not actually leaving and everytime I see someone for the last time in a long time, I'll just be like, "Oky doke, see ya later! Text meh".

That's ok though, because I'll see everyone again, even if I have to make it happen. Which...I will probably do because I didn't get to spend enough time with everyone I wanted to...

So, in this final week of goodbyes and frantic week of preparation, I'll make the best of the time I have. Tomorrow I'll spend some quality chill time with one of my best friends....get our girl talk on, you know. Later this week I'll spend some time with the rents, butter them up a little before I leave so they miss me more ;)  I might possibly have a date with a pretty cool guy on Wednesday...(uh, yeah, this girl <--)

Annnddd for those of you who didn't get a chance to see a dramatic, tearful, final goodbye from me before I left, you should honestly relish the fact that you didn't have to see me cry (because it ain't pretty), and I'll miss you just as much anyways ssooo...

No bigs. Australia happens!

Manders