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Justice.

Every American around the world, no matter where they are living at this moment in time are celebrating. Osama is dead. Yes, there is celebration, but there is also sadness about what was lost 10 years ago. My thoughts are with those families today.

It's always nice to see a familiar face!

The official 'First Photo'!

Picnic on the first day!

First photo with the Eiffle Tower....it's that small stick looking shawdow, next to my head! ;)

Lovely!

Notre Dame. Tyler was such a trooper, she still hadn't slept since her flight! Looking good, as usual!

There it is!

Underneath the Tower.

Tyler's official 'Eiffle Shot'

Thankfully the weather was really nice. We only had one rain shower!

Arc de Triumph

Note: Whenever you ask a random to take a photo, check that the entire tower is in photo. :)

Waiting at the station to go to Moulin Rouge.

Love this photo of us!

The Louvre.

The Seine.

The Opera.

Concorde.

Sacre Coeur

Versailles.

The famous fountain at Versailles.

Tyler being Tyler....if she didn't do that she would have been a lobster.

Light fixture at Versailles. So cool!

The gold gates at Versailles.

Being Fabulous on the last night! I loved that she got to visit.

Say what you will about me, but speak poorly of my family and I will fuck your world up.

A night with Adele

When we first got to the Theatre. We were so bummed, because we thought we were going to be so far from the stage. Thank goodness the French like sitting!

Me, Seth and Nishia, we could not be more excited!!


The opening band! He was so good! Check him out... Michael Kiwanuka





There she is!! And yes, that is how close we were!!









So beautiful!

I would suggest seeing her in concert. Her voice is ONE MILLION times better live, than on her CD! That's saying a lot, seeing as how her voice sounds like heaven on her CD!

Waiting on the Seine for the Sunrise.

Beautiful end to the night. Beautiful sunrise at the Juliet statue in Bastille.

Brandi Carlile - The Story

Did you say it?

Have you ever had a million thoughts at one time. It's hard to write a blog when that happens, or think about one thing honestly. They aren't bad or good, just thinking about everything. Can I get an easy button, please? So, just fair warning, this is another very RANDOM blog.

I'm moving forward with my life. I have been taking the negative out and making sure I'm surrounded by positives (could I sound like more of a hippy). I deleted 50+ people on facebook and I'm thinking about just getting rid of the whole thing...email and letters are better anyway. The people that I deleted never cared about me and I honestly don't know why I was "friends" with them on there anyway. Why do I hold onto things that never where? It's silly really, those people were terrible to me, but I held on. I thought that if they were to see how great my life was, they would want to say sorry. I don't think they know how bad they were though, so I hit that delete button and it felt great to be done with that stage of my life. It was freeing.

I'm not dating. I know, I know, I have said that before and failed everytime. BUT when I failed I dated the same person that I was trying to get away from. So, I'm not dating. When I start to date again, be sure to remind me to stay clear of the needy, corset types that are jealous, but are the cheaters themselves. Don't need that, don't want that, and it's messing with my "Let it be" attitude. :)

I'm going to be 25 soon! AHHHH! That wasn't a mid-midlife crises yell, that was an "OMG I CAN'T WAIT", yell! I really am excited! I have done so much with my life so far and I can't wait to see what happens next....I'm hoping....no I know it will be full and exciting! I can't wait to see what happens in the next 25 years, honestly I really don't care as long as I have my besties by my side, life will be grand!

I am happy and not just in writing, I am actually happy. I'm loving my new take on life and excited for what's to come. I know the next chapter is going to be a scary road, but I also know that it will be beautiful too. Being in Paris has made me realize that life is about what you make it, not what was given to you. I heard this quote and I want to make sure to live by it for the rest of my life, making sure the people I love, know.

"Did you say it? 'I love you. I don't ever want to let you go. You changed my life.' Did you say it? Make a plan, set a goal, work towards it. And every now and then look around, drink it in, cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow."

So, I'm working towards making sure the people that I love, know it when I'm gone. I warned you, this blog is all over the place.:) xxxx

Bestest,

When I grow up and I'm out of this haze I want to be just like you. Strong. Beautiful. Funny. Gracious. Have a big heart. Love others more then myself. All of these things are just some of the reasons why you are my best friend and sister. No one understands me like you do, bestest. I love you to the moon and back!

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways...

Do you think Elizabeth Barrett Browning had as much trouble saying 'I love you' as I do? I mean we all know that she created beautiful words on paper, but was she able to tell the person she wrote 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways", face to face, that her poem was about him? I imagine that the beauty of words helped her on paper and in person (574 letters to her love proves that). I don't have the natural flow of words, it usually takes me a few times to write and re-write before it's just 'okay'. I do know, however, that anything can happen in life, good and bad, and wouldn't it just be a drag if the people who meant the most to you didn't know how you felt? I think so. I know, I know! You are probably thinking, "What is the point to this, Hunter?" Well, I have decided that I need to write down exactly how I feel, in letters, to the people I love. Words will be jumbled and it will more than likely be super sappy, but who cares! I don't want any of the people I know I love to ever question that, I mean really, what good is life if you only go through it with regret? I don't want to ever feel that way...here goes nothing!

John Keats

Bright Star
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--
No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever--or else swoon to death.

My mind runs at 15 million miles a minute these days!

And because of that, my blogs won't make since and more than likely be about 15 million things as well. So, here it goes...
My emotions are all over the place right now.
I don't want to think about the future, it makes me too sad.
I don't want to imagine you not there to cheer me on, because you are one of my BIGGEST cheerleaders.
I am trying to be strong, but I don't know how to.
I don't want to think about missing our 'until 4 am' chats.
I was told that I was brave today and that made me guilty, because I'm just the friend who is trying to be a support from 5,000 miles away.
YOU are the bravest, strongest person I know.
Even though I am scared shitless, I am still happy you are here NOW!
Don't give up...we are fighters. It's not in our nature to give up.
Life is unfair and too damn short. It's what we do in this short life that makes us who we are now and forever. This quote from Mary Oliver rings true, especially in this struggle:

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

This quote has definitely got me thinking about everything. I am sad when I think about what will never be, but I am ecstatic to know you now, to fight this terrible unfair battle with you! I love you bestest...to the moon and back!

Also, I have decided that 'feel better' sayings are the stupidest thing ever invented.

A sister is more than a friend.

I am not one to hate, in fact, I love to love. I am that person who always sees the good in others and every time I'm too willing to give a second chance. I rarely get mad and when I do I say sorry with ease and easily forgive. I think it takes too much energy to be mad and hate something. At this moment in time, however, I am LIVID! Death is the most unfair thing, especially when you have to come to realization that one of your closest, dearest friends, basically sister is being taken away <= hardest sentence I have ever written in my life. This has got me thinking a lot about religion and god and here is what I have come to... I feel like everything I believed as a child was a lie and total bullshit. I was always taught that there is a lesson in every situation, but I don't think I ever will understand this 'lesson'. I don't want to hear your bullshit, cop-out answer that 'everything happens for a reason', because, let's be honest, does anyone ever find out what that reason really is? Your god keeps taking away the things I love. If he exists why is there never an intervention of things that are bad? Instead everyone just says 'prayer works' or 'just trust him', did your praying really work or did your situation get resolved because you were thinking about it constantly, so you got off your ass and did something about it. All I want to do is scream, because I know nothing else will make me feel better. I feel so selfish. This is probably the most jumbled post ever, but I had to get it out. AHHHGGGGGG!!!