Florida Trip - Day 2

Today I woke up at 9 to make myself some breakfast. I had a some oatmeal with brown sugar and one scrambled egg. I also made myself a PB&J sandwich which I was dying to eat haha! We anticipated on leaving the house at 10:30 but we ended up leaving a little bit later because we had a few errands to run before practice. Coach, a few of the girls and I all went to walmart to grab what we needed. I ended up not buying anything and just basically went because I was bored. After that we headed back to the house, picked up the rest of the girls and loaded up the van.

It took us about 30 minutes to get to the golf facility that we were practicing at today. We went to Orange County National today. This is my favorite practice facility, like if I were to go pro (which i'm not planning on) I would love to practice in a facility like this every day. First I did a few putting drills: one for my putting stroke, another one for practicing 3-4-5-8 footers and then a spiral drill. This took about an hour. After this we went over to the range where I hit a little bit of balls. I've in and out of sickness lately and well my golf swing has been feeling very weak and not too solid so I'm having a hard time committing to the golf ball. There were a few sour apples today and i'm not quite sure why. All I want to do is enjoy my time here and just live life. It's my last year of college golf and I want it to be even more fun as it has ever been. But it's not like i'm making my hopes really high. Anyways, after hitting on the range for about an hour and a half and struggling to find out what exactly I was doing wrong I headed over to the chipping facility where I practiced a variety of shots. I was only here for about 45 minutes until coach came up to me and asked me to play the short course with her.
So, we started playing on the short course and I had her look at my swing, basically my alignment is a little off, I'm throwing my club out down the wrong swing path and sometimes my shoulder starts my downswing. Now if you know anything golf all of this equals my golf ball going everywhere and anywhere.. So from that i've been having a hard time committing to my golf shots. Anywho we played all 9 holes and as we kept playing my shots started to feel a little more and more solid as we went through. By the time we finished it was already 6 o'clock. We've been here for 6 hours already... talk about a very long day.

We drove to a grocery store and all of us bought our own individual dinners. Some of us chose to cook and others just bought pre-made food from the store. After this we headed home and basically just hung around. Coach invited us to go to Downtown Disney but majority of us are way too tired. I made myself chicken noodle soup, and pesto pasta (weird combo I feel like). I called Gary and we talked about the future and grad school and what not. To be honest i'm not scared of what the future holds for us. I think the two of us will be just fine if we do end up having to go different directions for school.

Well, thats all for now. Bye friends, see you later.

Traveling To Florida For Spring Break!

Hello friends!

So this week is the start of spring break for a lot of college students. This year i'm spending it down in Florida with my lovely teammates. We have a lot of practicing to do before our first tournament! So we're not here to just mess around :).

Well we left campus yesterday at 1pm and we stopped somewhere in Georgia. This morning we woke up ate breakfast and headed out around 8:30AM. From here we only had about 4 hours left until we reached our destination. We made a stop for Starbucks and then another stop for Which Wich and cupcakes. 

From there we went to Ocala National to practice a little bit. We practiced for about 2 hours or so until we had to head to the house we were staying in. It took us about an hour to get to the place we were staying and unfortunately when we got to the house it was literally filthy. So the girls and I went down to the clubhouse and hung out in the patio area where we basically just hung out, ate dinner and socialized. I started getting attacked by bugs so I decided to go into the clubhouse. Hung out in here for another hour until we decided to walk back to the house. When we got back the house looked nice and clean. It's been a pretty long day so now we've all decided to take a shower and be bums for the rest of the day.

Yeah, it's been a pretty boring day. But I had a lot of fun hanging out with my team and just roaming around.

My New York Trip.

This post is very long overdue. So i've posted before about how during Thanksgiving break (yeah... thanksgiving) I was going to go to New York with my lovely boyfriend. I got pretty lazy on touching up on the photos so I just never blogged about it. So here I am, with a few photos that I thought i'd share with you all.

Now, we weren't here for very long but gosh I sure did have a lot of fun! We started driving to New Jersey on Friday around 6:30AM.

We made a lot of stops because the windshield fluid for the wouldn't spray onto the darn window!! Since it was snowy in a few places there was some oil on the roads which, got onto the window and made it really hard to see :(. We managed to pretty well though. (Gary don't get mad at me for posting this picture haha)

We finally made it into New Jersey around 2 o'clock. We parked our car, bought our train ticket into the city ($30 round trip), and then we were off for our fun mini vacay.

Gary has already been here before but this was my first time. So once I stepped outside of the train station I was literally blown away. New York is amazingly beautiful! Its so much prettier than the way Los Angeles looks. I fell in love immediately with New York right then and there. Anywho, we had to walk a few block down with our luggage to reach our hotel. There were loads and loads of people since it was Black Friday. What a good day to walk through Time Square huh? We finally got into our hotel and laid down for a few to relax. Traveling sure does make you tired! After about 30 minutes or so we put on our coats and hopped out back into the madness. We mostly just walked around Time Square and explored the city. We started getting hungry though around 10ish I believe. Now, before coming here I Yelped a few places on where to eat and I found a few places but there was this one place I was really dying to go to... Carmines... On Yelp you're able to make reservations but I wasn't able to get one. So as we were just strolling around the street there it was... Carmines! Haha, I had no idea that it was here how weird. Anywho we walked in to see if they took walk-ins and they did. The wait was only 45 minutes so we sat at the bar and hung out until our name was called.

I'm not quite sure what we got but, OH. MY. GOSH. was it delicious! There were roasted potatoes, spinach, chicken all drenched in some lemon butter sauce from what I can remember. It was their special of the day. It's supposed to feed up to 4-5 people or somewhere along those lines and Gary and I almost finished the whole thing! Literally, we couldn't breathe. We walked around for maybe another hour until we decided to go back to our hotel room.

We set an alarm fairly early for Saturday morning because it was basically our only day to explore the city! I was determined to see the sunrise from our hotel and well it was ... (photos can't do it justice)

We laid in bed for a little while longer before we got ready for the long adventurous day ahead of us. We were able to conquer a lot of New York in such a small period of time! It was so much fun.

First up..

... The New York Public Library!

OOTD: Dress: Boohoo, Tights: Not Sure, Boots: Boohoo, Coat: Gap, Purse: Michael Kors, Scarf: Not sure

Next up...

... Grand Central! We grabbed some quick brunch while we were here. We then took a train to...

 ... Central Park!

 We found a castle!

My favorite photo of the trip <3

We grabbed some soup from the Boathouse (which isn't in any of the pictures lol). It was freeezing out!

For the rest of the day we just continued to stroll around...

The Halal Guys.... omg, it's REALLY REALLY REALLY GOOD!!!!

Rice to Riches...

 mmm, overpriced rice pudding... but pretty good

We got there too late :(

yummy but not as good as in-n-out haha :)

Oh yeah.. I lost my phone but I got a new one while I was in New York. 

Overall, I had so much fun in New York. I can't thank Gary enough for taking me on this amazing trip that i'll never forget. This weekend was one of the best weekends on my life. I can't wait for more adventures. I hope you all enjoyed all of the photos! I also hope you all had a happy holiday! Happy New Years!!!