Ladies and Gents, I did it--I left Massachusetts for spring break.
Unlike last year when I spent my week off in Taunton tan-free and totally sober, this year I went all out. Cancun didn't liquor me up and film me for a late night-censor barred commercial about previously not wild girls. I was also not found half naked on a beach in Miami with a newly inked tramp stamp of an angel flying out of my ass.
Instead, I drank Margaritas in sunny Mexico and ate fish'n'chips in jolly ol'England. I marveled at castles, came unusually close to a giraffe and flew in an elephant. No, I was not high but in the happiest place on Earth. I didn't chose the Tila Tequila-MTV route for my senior year spring break. I actually went the exact opposite and spent three gorgeous and kid-friendly days in Walt Disney World. There was sun, water and fun just with a little more clothing and a little less liquor.
Last year (and all previous years) the main problem was the cash. I never understood how people had the kind of money needed to travel anywhere other than home for the one week off we get in early spring. This year, I still didn't understand and didn't have the money necessary. Thanks to some last minute saving, my family's generous contributions and my boyfriend's credit card, my dream break happened! I hadn't been to Disney in six years and had just applied for a six month internship there for after graduation. This was the year; this was my last chance.
On a completely spur of the moment, an uncharacteristically spontaneous decision was made for my bf and I to go south for spring. We talked, we planned, we purchased and it was a done deal. The ease of all this made me realize how the tanorexic beauties and their beaus travel so extravagantly--plastic! A credit card and bill a whole month away was the key to this whole adventure.
As not-stereotypical as it was, my senior year spring break was spent exactly the way I wanted it. No longer must I envy those glistening bods on the beach because we both got what we needed and have the same credit card bill smiling back at us.
