I have found bliss.
It's almost overwhelming how perfect everything is. And it's not just one thing, or one person. It's everything. I feel like this just couldn't get any better. And then it does.
For my birthday, Riley took me to a town called Wilmington, about 2 hours away, right on the coast. It was such a surreal town. Almost reminded me of a small version of Savannah, Georgia. Romantic, old, but with a hint of modern. There were brick buildings lining the streets and carriage rides with white horses.
For dinner he took me to a place called Caprice Bistro. And we had the whole place to ourselves, as if he'd rented out the whole place just for me.
We ended the night with a nice drive home with the warm North Carolina air softly blowing in our faces, and this song came on. It was like one of those movie moments, you know, where it's just so perfect and serene.
This Years Love by David Gray
The next day we went to the beach, this time we went to a place called Topsail, North Carolina.We sat there on the beach and just marveled.
Again with the perfectness.
After awhile of being there, I looked out into the ocean and saw a big dark spot. I asked Riley what it was and neither of us really knew, but it was slowly moving to the right! After a few minutes of watching it, I saw a fin. I freaked out, jumped up and down, just generally acting like a little girl...It was so cool. Wediscovered that the dark spot was a huge school of Blue Fish and a pod of 4 or 5 dolphins!!! How did we discover that? Because Riley swam straight out to them, right up to them and got to be within just a couple feet of it all, he came back and said, "that was the coolest thing I've ever seen!!" A little bit later, as He and I were taking a walk up the beach we saw it again! So we both swam out there and now from my own experience, I can tell you, it WAS the coolest thing I've ever seen, being within all that, swimming with those fish and dolphins...Such an amazing feeling.
On the way home from the beach Riley and I stopped by his good friends Thomas and Carries house. It was unplanned but ended up being a really fun time. It is important and meaningful to me to meet people who are important to people I care about, and I really like them. They are awesome people, and good people too, you can tell. We all sat on their gorgeous back porch and talked for awhile, had some dinner...I'm really looking forward to hanging out with them again. We are all going on their boat this Sunday which I am super stoked about, we are going to grill some kabobs and I'm bringing red velvet cupcakes.
Tomorrow I am heading back to Mykels house in Dunn, North Carolina for her son Noah's birthday party, his birthday is actually the same day as mine! He's 2 years old and I can't wait to squeeze him again : )
Something that I really value is when you meet a stranger on your travels and they say something to you that just hits the spot. Maybe you needed to hear it or maybe you've been trying to find a way to express but couldn't, until that stranger says it. And that happened yesterday, after the beach we went to this little place and had a snack. The girl working there saud, "every day should be an epic performance"
I have been trying to figure out a way to express how I feel about this and this girl, this stranger that I had never met just blurts it out : )
I very much agree, I feel like we need to treat life as if it's one big vacation. Live on the edge, have fun, stop and smell the salty air. This is your time. Your life. and you deserve to enjoy it. Instead of only "going on vacation" once a year, why not treat every day as if it's the most epic performance of your life. Have fun with it, mold it and shape it. This is the only life we get and sometimes we may need to step out of our comfort zone, take a couple risks, get scared. But it's all a good thing. Builds our character, strengthens who we are.
"The best of times is now."
Oprah Winfrey
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