England Bound...Again!

So for those of you that have not heard of my excitement yet, I am on my way to England in exactly one month! I am relieved to have a flight booked and have something to look forward to in the near future. It is not that I am not enjoying my program, I just need a break. I have been at this for a year now with no breaks and taking 15-16 credits plus working at the call center. I think I have earned one! lol. It will be so very nice to get away from everything completely and spend time with everyone that I miss so much over in England.

I am pleased that I will still get to see the family over break as well as see my 6-pack girls. It will be wonderful to be back in Iowa to hangout and relax a bit and just catch up with sooooo many people I haven't seen in so very long.

And then I will get to spend my birthday in England as well! Alex and I have never been together on by birthday so I am most pleased about that. I am curious as to what he has planned because he will not tell me. It will be nice to have a surprise cuz I usually end up getting things out of him. Its awful of me, I know. But in my defense, he knows that I will want to know and then tells me theres a surprise coming or asks me some odd questions but wont tell me why. They are big tip offs.

I am keeping my fingers crossed that everyone won't make a huge deal of my birthday. I know it won't happen since I have know these people for several years and haven't shared a real holiday with them ever (cet for 4th of July, which doesn't count to them). So celebrating my birthday will be fun with everyone. I am going to be a good sport about it, even tho I don't wish to be fussed over.

Ideally, just Alex and I would do something on my actual birthday. Then on another night we would go out and celebrate with everyone else. BUT that prlly won't happen. We shall see. I believe the surprise bit only involves the two of us. I can accept that :)

The only possible setback in this whole thing is if the weather us bad and things get delayed. I do not want that happening, eww! My fingers will remain crossed that this does not happen. It's also be nice if the plane wasn't broken....that happened to me on the way back last time. It was kinda a mess, but we didn't leave the ground til it was fixed.