Tying Loose Ends

Today was seriously one of the best days ever!!  Haley and I got to get up really early this morning and drive over to Paso Robles with my mom.  I've been looking forward to this for at least a month now, and it's crazy how fast time has passed.  I'm pretty sure the second we drove up to Alyssa's house Haley and I were busting up laughing, and the laughter really never subsided.  We had a crazy day full of driving, eating, shopping, yelling at the sun, taking TONS of pictures, freezing our butts off at the beach, watching movies, and more eating.  It was soooooo much fun, but I didn't know I'd actually learn something...

So, a couple months ago I had to deal with the whole moving thing and it totally sucked.  I knew that God had a plan and that it obviously happened for a reason, but I didn't know the exact reason.  That is, until today.  We were driving home from Morro Bay, and Long Live by Taylor Swift came on.  About a year ago, we officially dubbed this our song for senior year, and high school in general, so every time I hear the song, I kind of freak out.  (And a little side note, I totally didn't have that song on repeat while writing this or anything...) When the song started playing Alyssa just looked at me and was like, "Do you remember what I said about this and your senior year?"  And obviously I remembered; I remember pretty much everything.  Anyways, as the song was playing, and I was looking out the window, staring at the hills (and fog), and kind of just thinking about the last year or so and everything we had done today.  And all of a sudden, BAM, it hit me.  If she hadn't moved, today wouldn't have happened, like AT ALL.  We wouldn't have had a ride all day to drive us from beach to beach.  We wouldn't have had anywhere to go crash when it was too cold to do anything, and I probably would've been sitting in class, bored out of my mind.  I finally have something to do over the summer, and somewhere to escape when I need a break from Fresno, which kinda happens a lot.  It sucks not having Alyssa in town, and I still have those "ohmygosh I miss you; why aren't you still here?!" moments, but at the same time there are SOO many more opportunities now.  Sometimes, God can give us parts of answers at the weirdest times...