NYC's Calling

2012...the year of spontaneity...one week in and I am well and truly living it. Have just booked a trip to NYC!! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

We had no plans for travel this year. When a potential career change for Hubs was no longer on the cards we deceided that instead of travelling we would put our money and focus into doing up our house. But when he told me a few weeks ago that he saw the major airlines doing return flights to NYC for $1,400 (February - March travel only) I was like GET OUT...and haven't stopped thinking about it.

I need a holiday. I have worked the hardest I have ever worked the last year and have been living vicariously through my darling B-Rex who has been ridin' solo travelling around the U.S, through friends who have recently come back from full on European trips, have watched other mates planning an amazing ski trip to Canada since last year (one we were initially planning on going on but due to the possible career change couldn't commit to), then there are the copious amounts of friends/acquaintances posting photos of fabulous overseas adventures on Facebook that have made me realise this week, things like painting a house, getting a new fence and doing up the kitchen, whilst important for our end goal, simply aren't enough to keep me motivated for the year like I thought they would. I need to get away.

I have worked all throughout the festive season, so while most people have at least had some time off over the past few weeks, helping them feel refreshed for the year, I haven't. I am so not refreshed. My years have rolled into one and while my overall outlook on life is renewed and positive, I honestly need a break and with flights being so ridiculously cheap, we'd kinda be stupid not to take advantage. Everything happens for a reason as they say.

So with my Christmas bonus, I am off to NYC for two weeks at the end of February. Hubs is all keen to go, but a trip for him is not complete without snowboarding, and while I desperately LOVE the snow, with NYC on the cards, I am totally willing to sacrifice the powder for some serious shopping and me time. So Hubs is going to go boarding with a mate for the first week (this will be like his 7th or 8th snow trip in a row) whilst I go to NYC for a week on my own and then we'll meet up in NYC for another week of fun together.

I'm SO excited. I have never travelled on my own before, have always gone with at least one other person, or in more recent years, groups of friends, so I think this will be a really good experience for ment. Some serious time out. Plus, it means I can literally wander around all the shops and do all the things I want to do for an entire week uninterrupted, get it out of my system, so when week two rolls around, we can do all of the touristy, sight-seeing "boy" stuff (as he has never before). Perfect combination, if I do say so myself. LOL

The countdown is on. So freaking happy. xx