School-age kids across the country are out on Spring Break and New York City is buzzing with an extra dose of "school's out!" energy. The subways are packed with families traveling to Times Square, park playgrounds, and FAO Schwarz. Tourists have descended from every place on the map, even the ones no one marks with pushpins. Cameras are clicking. Sidewalks are shrinking. In other words, it's time to get the hell out of dodge.
Unfortunately, that just ain't happening. Wah, wah. Fooled you.
I've heard positive visualization really works. We'll just see about that.
In my mind I am sipping rum cocktails with fruit wedged on the side.
And sucking back smoothies made of juicy tropical fruit like coconut, mango and pineapple.
This week, I'm not surrounded by steel and chrome and concrete, but by bamboo and rickety wood painted like Rainbow Brite's clubhouse. No one is buttoning their top collar or tucking in shirts. They're kicking back, hanging loose, wearing bikini tops with cut-off shorts and flip-flops with sand between the toes.
Where I am, it's so warm that ice cream melts and hits the sand before it ever hits my mouth. Who cares? I'll wash my sticky skin off in the ocean.
Under this hat is a face that has been kissed by the sun and a brow that has lost its furrow. That Belinda Carlisle really knew what she was talking about--a vacation is all I ever needed.
Haha --- I'm going to have to give positive visualization a try! We were in Mexico in November but it seems like a lifetime ago!
ReplyDeleteyes, positive visualization... i really needed that. thanks.
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I'm sitting at the airport, waiting to go to a work conference, but for a minute these descriptions made me feel like I was heading to somewhere exotic and exciting!
ReplyDeleteOh gosh - I want to go to there so bad!
ReplyDeleteLove the pics, I'm now imagining myself on vacation right now too!
ReplyDeleteI hope you get a vacation soon! My family and I are heading to Florida a week from Saturday, I can't wait!
ReplyDeleteI can almost hear the steel drums. I would probably kill someone for a trip to one of those photos. Hmmm, I could really go for some coconut granola right about now :)
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