Day 1

My first blog:

I woke up this morning after a horrid sleep from my bed, to the couch, and back to my bed thanks to my snoring boyfriend. Either way he redeemed himself and drove me to the airport with only one flaw. Taking a shower 7 minutes before our projected departure time! But we still got there on time! The flight was good, I crocheted a pink rectangle for Frank's blanket I am attempting to create.

Upon my arrival to Dallas, I sit in the baggage claim area. I say next to a homosexual couple ho kissed when they greeted each other. I don't have a problem with gay people, I have just never been exposed to them since I am a "small town girl" so I speak so I was minority alarmed at the unusual (to me) contact! I got my bag and proceeded outside to wait for my cousin, Brooke, and he mom, Jamie, to pick me up. The wind blew my hair and it didn't freeze my face off like the cold bitter wind in Mansfield, Ohio does. Oh how I despise that place. But that depressing topic is for another day. We will not talk about Mansfield during my princess trip.

I am going to refer to this trip as a princess trip because I got out of the airport and went straight to an early dinner at Cozymels (TexMex) then we proceeded to go to Spa Castle. This place was so epic! It reminded me of the spa we went to in Germany. So cool! They issued us little uniforms, pink shirt and gray stupid shorts. It was sort of cool because everyone was equal and you didn't have to worry if the girl in front of you had a better shirt than you...

It is a culture shock at first. Everyone is naked in the "bath" area. Stark nude and bathing suits are not allowed... After we exited the communal bath (literately people were sitting there washing each other like they lived in Ancient Rome) we went to the saunas!

There were so many different saunas and I was not too keen on the idea. The first one was 120* and was not too bad. The next one was 145* and ironically called the Roman sauna. That was a funny time for me. My favorite one though was the hymilayan  salt sauna. It apparently is good for acne which I have been having a terrible time with. The walls were made entirely of bricks of salt and this sauna felt SO good. After sweating my soul out for about 15 minutes we went to "ice land" and 56* to close our pores! We proceeded to a color therapy sauna which was sort of stupid. I don't know how the color green can bring harmony to your life. Should I just wear green when I need harmony and creativity? Whatever. The next sauna was the gold sauna claiming to be made of walls covered in 98% gold. This sauna was 160* (as was the salt one). So we went in here and sweated our brains out again which felt so goooood. Oh and you had to wear clothes in the saunas! Plus.

This place was like heaven. Brooke and I shared a kiwi and pineapple smoothie and sat in one of the many hot tubs! There was many pools with different kinds of jets and temperatures. We all got a coconut bubble tea which was good but I could not finish all the tapioca in mine... It kind of creeped me out after a while. What is tapioca anyway? Black balls of dark magic is the most logical answer.

After you get over the fact that a naked woman is standing really close to you at times, this place was
 so cool. I definitely would go back. I felt like a pampered princess when we left. It was so relaxing and detoxing. Also, they served sushi which is a plus. Apparently there is one of these in Chicago and one in NYC so maybe if I am around there anytime soon I will go!

Exhausted and ready for sleep and the annoying time change, we make our beds and climb in after breaking open some nuts and chowing on them. Tomorrow we go to church, take grams to lunch, pedicures and the Walking Dead. But ill save that for then since my wrists are going to break.

Goodnight ☺