2014!

I am so incredibly excited for 2014! This year I will be leaving my teenage years behind, reconnecting with best friends from the past, traveling on my own, reading more books, trying to improve certain aspects of myself, and hopefully making new friends and having exciting and unexpected experiences.

One of my favorite parts of 2013 was traveling with family and friends. For Thanksgiving, my family went to New Hampshire and Boston. We started off at the beautiful Mt. Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, NH, which is the resort where the International Monetary Fund was established in 1944...for finance majors like me, that's a little exciting! We spent Thanksgiving day with 43 extended family members and friends in Boston, which was definitely a change of pace from our usual intimate Thanksgiving celebration. 

Love you sissy!

I just returned from a trip to Israel with a group of students from my school, the University of Florida. We started in the north and traveled south, and we had the opportunity to visit the Golan Heights, Haifa, Tzfat, Tel Aviv, Be'er Sheba, Jerusalem, the Mediterranean Sea, the Dead Sea, Masada, Ein Gedi, the Negev desert, and many other truly amazing places.

Bahai Gardens, Haifa

This fruit stand had the most amazing pomegranate pineapple smoothies...these were everywhere!

My sweet new friend Jonathan, an Israeli soldier

A gorgeous oasis in Ein Gedi with Ofir, another Israeli soldier friend

Surreal view of Jerusalem

Mineral Beach, Dead Sea

A little enchanted forest in the Ovdat Valley

View of the Dead Sea from the top of Masada

All in all, a perfect way to end 2013. I'm sad to say good bye to a few things from 2013, but even more excited for everything that awaits in 2014!