Jessamyn Goes Places

After the Cheerleading Worlds, Felix and I boarded a flight to the US Virgin Islands to continue my national parks quest. We flew into Saint Thomas, and interestingly the plane did the thing where it almost touched down on the runway but then took off again. The pilot said he decided not to land because there was a thunderstorm right above the runway. It was spooky but we ended up ok. We got a rental car and stopped for lunch where I saw this cat.  If there are any new readers to my blog: I try to document every cat I see while on vacation. Many of my readers are cat lovers, and you have to cater to your audience.  People drive on the left side of the road in the Virgin Islands (how unamerican), but the drivers side of the car is still on the left so it was less difficult than the UK but still a challenge for Felix, who did all the driving. We had to get on a car barge to take us to Saint John, which is where the national park is, and there was absolutely no instruction about ...

This was my second year going to the Cheerleading Worlds (held in Disney World) but first year with Felix on the team. I wasn't planning on blogging about it because I covered most of the experience in my post from last year but I guess I'll do a shorter post to summarize.  After an exhausting week of practices leading up to Worlds, Felix and I flew down to Orlando on a Thursday night. We stayed in an AirBnB with two of our teammates, Elise and Jonah. On Friday morning, we met up with the team in our bedazzled practice wear to practice on the field of Disney's Allstar Sports Resort. There's one field that's iconic in the cheer world that all the teams practice on. Apparently some people wanted the experience of practicing here so we did it even though we passed a bunch of far less crowded fields on the way there.  Our coach forbade us from going to the parks before we competed so after practice we chilled for a bit and then went to the ESPN complex to watch the ICU ...