Travel to Live. Live to Travel

I’m a notorious packrat. Case in point, I’ve been racking up frequent flier miles since I was 16 years old, since then I’ve managed to hoard over 140,000 miles. The weird thing was that there wasn’t a specific trip or anything that I was saving for–I was just doing it for ONE DAY when I would really need them for something.

Well, that day finally arrived, and thank my lucky stars that the airline didn’t decide to just go bankrupt or make flights cost 5x more than before.

We booked our tickets to Spain today (I still have miles left too!)

So in 7 months we’ll definitely be traveling again!

It’s pretty cool that all my leggings and leg warmers that I brought back from Japan are going to be super fashionable soon (if not right now.) In Chicago, my friend Marc and I counted how many girls were wearing them–we only counted 3 (not counting me, and one of the girls was Japanese), but I guarantee come a few months it’s going to be the biggest (some would say, most horrible) fashion thing since, uh, let’s go with Uggs.

It took me awhile to really warm up to leggings in Japan, but several years of seeing it and one will break.  I never really thought that the look would make it to America, but then I saw this blog post about what Carrie was supposed to be wearing in the Sex And the City Movie and she looked like a Japanese teenager. Oh, and of course the Olsen Twins and Lindsay Lohan (who are apparently style icons, meh) just wear Japanese fashion 2 years later, so it was bound to happen.

Now, when America starts wearing colorful tights…then I’ll be really happy.