i just returned to fort myers after a 2 week trip back home to cincinnati. as some know i skipped my last scheduled trip home during thanksgiving for the dominican republic so this was a much anticipated return. i was in need of cold, snow, and sweaters to tie me over for the next four months. my roommates took off a week earlier than i did leaving me alone in an apartment with no internet or cable tv...not as bad as it sounds but i know for a fact that the walls were inching closer and closer leading up to the friday departure. i landed on the 18th in columbus to be greeted by my parents and five year old niece who i have not seen in quite some time. my brother has now left me with the honor of breaking the news of any future trips because she never tends to take it very well. the up side is that she always seems to be excited to see me when i return home...im the cool uncle i think. it will be a sad day when that joy is gone and it turns into, oh your back nice to see you again aaron. to cure that, i have decided that she will forever remain in my mind as a five year old from here on out.
it was nice to see the family for the weekend and i was excited to finally see my nephew jackson finally running around with my own eyes, thanks grant for all those videos that you sent me of him dancing and walking in your kitchen. i was also in need to see the old friends that i have lacked in southwest florida. it was great seeing everyone again but it was then that i realized that we were never going to be the same group of friends that we were in college. thomas will always be thomas and i am not sure that will ever change, at least not until hell freezes over. you can always count on him to find a good time and a few beers. everyday to him is an adventure of uncertainty and we never quite know where it is headed until you look back and ask yourself, did we just do that?
jess and sam now come with other halves, though they still remain the better of the two. i officially cannot wait until jess and ben's wedding in april. not only will it be another great excuse to return to the city i love, i will be apart of their great day. i am so thankful that they have asked me to take part in everything and i would not miss it for the world. they met quick and are marrying quick but after i was able to spend some time with just the two of them towards the end of my trip, i could not be more happy for the two of them and i believe i now see in the two of them what they see in each other. i could not be happier for the two of them.
i was also able to connect with kristen. it always seems that we have the most trouble hanging out and now matter how long i am home, we can only ever manage one visit with each other. we ended up following our usual routine which includes hitting up a movie and hanging out to catch up afterwards. whenever it is time to say see you later, with the uncertainty of when will we meet again, i find myself thinking why can we not find the time to hang out more often than we do. i still cannot think of a time we have both been around for the others birthday in the past five or six years-shameful i know.
i finished out my trip home with a four day relationship of sorts, a couple of trips downtown to the museum and fountain square, and one last trip to columbus where i spent new years playing glow in the dark putt-putt with my sister, her boyfriend and four little ones only to be up the next morning at six am to catch my flight back to the south. (i also understand that last recapping sentence poses a few questions from some of you and lets just say...yes it was great and there may be more to come)
as for now, i just finished up our winter id camp here at fgcu with temps bottoming out around 50 and i am back in the office gearing up for the return of our players later this week.
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