Over The Moon!

voltee ♦ October 24, 2010 ♦ 3 Comments

Item: Capris Color/Fabric: Olive, cotton Designer: Roxy Where Purchased: Pacific Sun Wear (!) Years Owned: 12?
This is it everyone! My very last post before my journey. It’s really real! It’s happening! I still can’t believe it. My dearest wish is that I sit on the plane and all my little stresses from the past weeks melt away, and I can relax entirely, and actually sleep. We shall see!
Well, these capris are something I have hung on to for years, watching them gradually fade into the distressed look. I did honestly consider them for the Spain trip, and then they didn’t make the cut.
I can’t remember the last time I actually wore these, but I know that I have worn them numerous, numerous times through the years. Back then I thought that Pacific Sun Wear was the absolute coolest clothes store around. Period. I remember thinking the clothes were so expensive, but splurging every now and again for something I could not live without. Such as these.
Perhaps the most vivid in my mind is in July, 2000. Our Honeymoon!
It was our very first trip together, alone. And it was magical! We spent some days at Disney world, and then went on to Vero Beach. Or, as I preferred to call it then, Orchid Island. Vero Beach is actually on a little island called Orchid, and I thought it sounded much more exotic than Vero Beach. When people asked me where we were going on our Honeymoon, I replied, “Oh, Orchid Island. It’s this lovely, secluded island in Florida. You’ve never heard of it? Well, you should. It’s beautiful!” I tried to pretend to be wordly and sophisticated.
I think that little affectation was a result of getting married so young, and being fully aware that it is generally looked down on to do so. As though it is somehow not classy. Sort of “Back-woods.”
We might have been teenagers for some of the attitudes we got.
Especially on our Honeymoon, since we did look like actual teenagers. We stayed in this absolutely unique resort called the Driftwood. It was created by an eccentric man named Waldo, who decorated it with antiques, and hodge-podge remnants from shipwrecks and beach finds. It’s amazing and peaceful, and there’s no where in the world quite like the Driftwood.
This is what we looked like:

All together, now: awww!
We drove all the way to Florida, and all around it, with our car still decorated in Just Married regalia. It was sort of like being in a continual parade- people love that stuff, and are ridiculously nice to you when they see it. But I think we were too shy to tell any of the places we stayed that it was our Honeymoon, because we got no extra-special Honeymoon treatment. Tragic.
I am not going to be shy about telling the places we’re staying in Spain that it is our 10th anniversary!
I don’t know if I should keep these. Or if I am strong enough to let them go. They are without doubt the very last piece of clothing I still have from my Honeymoon. But they are a little snug, and very faded, and not so much my style these days. I shuddered slightly just typing the word capris. But they do have their purpose, and I do think their cute. Hmmm.

And so I must leave you. Please stay tuned, I do have some things planned. And I really hope to be able to write in real time whenever possible during my Spanish getaway. If I should miss a day or two, would you be so kind as to go back and catch up on any posts you may have missed, and vote like crazy? When I am back I will have a serious Day Of Reckoning. Oh, I will miss you all, and thank you so very much for supporting my project. Until we meet again!

**These are going.  Would anyone like them?