An hour later...

About an hour after I made my post for the day, the postman showed up with a huge package for me from Mom and the family, which I have been subsequently playing with all of the contents. Yay! Lots of fun things for my trip! Thanks, guys!

Included was my cute scrunch dress (my travel outfit!) that was accidentally taken to PA, flashlights (Mom's worried about my safety...how sweet.), bunches of cards, green stickers!, a lovely graduation congratulations note from my 4th grade teacher, these really weird bracelets that look like animals...my favorite is the little ducky...when you take them off (apparently, they are the new rage of the fad phenomenon):

AND...the coolest hair pins ever (Gratitude 229):

They look totally weird and like they'd barely hold any hair. To the contrary, I have them in now, and these two little pins may have just eliminated the need for oodles of hair clips...