Picking Travel Names

Kate and I work because we are yin and yang. When I worked at YMCA Camp Colman all of the counselors had to take a personality color test. The majority of counselors year after year were always blue and red. Blues were the lovey dovey feelers of the group. They were the counselors who were great with homesick kids, who cared about peoples feelings and just wanted to make sure everyone was okay. The reds were the ones who could always be counted on to get everyone excited. For three summers, I was the lone Brown. Looking back I can see why my personality type would be uncommon in a camp setting, but there was one other color that was rarely seen....green. Browns are the calculated risk takers, overly rational, calm in crazy situations, strong willed, purposeful (hate the phone, overtly stubborn, terrible observers of emotions...sound familiar?) Our best matches in life are greens. Greens are our logistics people. Greens like lists, details, organizations. Greens are great at everything browns need in their lives, but detest actually doing.

Kate is green from her head to her toes. While I am 100% brown. Our strengths and weaknesses compliment each other. Which personally is why I think we have such a great friendship, that from the outside to most people seems to make no sense.

Even as we were picking our travel names, Kate already had hers. Logistical Lilly. A nickname given to her by a close friend. It nails who she is to a T. We are all familiar with Logistical Lilly. We can recognize the signs. Sometimes, I give Kate a few too many details about something and she goes off into planning mode before I can even tell her I have it covered. But that is what great about her. She loves to plan. I pushed for this trip to originally happen, but she is the one who has planned it. We balance each other out.  I will force her have a bit of Fearless Fiona in her and not plan everything. Have the fun of traveling is being able to go with the flow, or have something accidentally happen have it be the best part of the trip. Trusting and leaping is half the fun.

One my favorite parts of the Singapore trip I took in 2012 was randomly asking some girls in a club bathroom why there was no in the club yet at 11:30. Those girls show my friends and I the time of our lives. It was by far one of the best nights in Singapore. Yet, it was nothing I could have ever planned for.

I just can't wait for Kate and I to make memories like that together in England and Ireland.

If she reads this, she is going to be laughing. This entry is a bit like the way i think and talk. A little bit of every thought in a mixed up jumble. Only I really understand the order.

Have the day you have,
Fearless Fiona