Walk It Out

A Walk to Remember

Don't start "aww-ing" everyone, at least not at once.

As we all know, this past weekend was Labor Day. Well for me, it wasn't really a break. I got stuck with baby sitting my boyfriend's dog. Yes, I know that no one is ever "stuck" with doing something, but in this case I kind of was. At first I was being nice, but as usual guys don't ever get a HINT.

I had always spend Labor Day weekend with my family by going to my camp ground, Woodhaven Lakes. You can probably guess that this didn't happened...well you're definitely right. So my family left me Thursday night to go camping since they realized that I want going to be able to join them this weekend. Also my boyfriend had left the next morning to head down to ISU. This is a whole other topic that I can keep on talking about, but I'm going to keep it short and save this talk for another time. Let's just say I'm not fond of his best friend...

My boyfriend needed me to watch his dog on Sunday. You may ask why I didn't go with my parents then came back early so I can watch the dog. I have my reasonings people. One I had school and two, I worked Thursday and Friday night. It made no sense for me to go for a day on Saturday, just to come back to get the dog Sunday morning from his parents. Since I was home alone all weekend, I was really pissed that I couldn't be with my family. I just felt the it was so unfair because I mentioned to my boyfriend that every year I go camping for Labor Day. I apparently I wasn't clear enough because he felt that going to ISU was way more important. As a girl, I didn't let it bother me at first, but he soon came to realize the I was not happy at all.

Sunday comes around the corner and I have to pick him up from the train station. Not only was it scared to go pick him up very late at night, I was super pissed that my whole weekend was ruined. I ended up just blowing it over because I was to meet my boyfriend's dad side of the family the next day.

Labor Day arrives and I am super nervous. I'm stressing out now about my first impression on his family. I went through four outfits before deciding on THE outfit. We end up going to the city to eat at "Yolk" for breakfast which I highly recommend. Then from there walked to Lincoln Park Zoo. Passing by all the complexes, my boyfriend and I were just endless dreaming of getting our own place one day. We were throwing ideas out left to right. It was so romantic. As we walked through the zoo, we were sharing our aspirations and dreams. It was really nice to know that he sees me as part of his future. The really really cool thing is that he was being serious about it.

By the end of the week...I became more than just a "girlfriend."

Lesson #3: Things are never as expected. Sometimes you need to hop on the next train and see where it takes you.