Best vacation EVER!

It's 8pm and I just rolled in to my bed, feeling as happy as I could be. My hostfamily just told me that despite what they said before they DO want to take me with them on their Christmas vacation. Location: St. John's, Virgin Islands, USA. WOW! I've seen pictures and heared discriptions of the house they have there and it sounds amazing. I will be joining them for 7 days, where after I will fly on my own to LOS ANGELES! Where I will visit Rosanne, the Dutch girl who I flew to New York with at the beginning of the program. In L.A. I will stay at her house at a place called 'Sunland'. How more awesome can a city name get? Hollywood is just around the corner (sort of :p..) and Las Vegas is a 3 hour drive. Even though we might not actually go to Vegas - cause what fun is Vegas when you're under 21 - there's still plenty of things that are cool to do in L.A.. My hostfamily will pay my ticket from Seattle to St. Johns and to L.A., which costs them 70.000(!) Frequent Flyer Miles, due to late booking. Normally it would cost 35.000, so it's quite ALOT more. The ticket back to Seattle after that is only $130, so that's very do-able. Also this great, totally awesome vacation will only count as one of my vacation weeks, which will leave room for one more week of travel in the rest of my year.

Tomorrow morning Rosanne will confirm if the dates work out right for her family and Matt (my hostdad) will book the ticket. Even if something does turn out to not quite work when I speak to Rosanne tomorrow morning I can not believe that they offered me a prospect of the above mentioned vacation, I'm so gratefull. They told me that it would feel wrong for them to leave me behind, as I am beginning to become part of the family and they are so gratefull that me and the family work out so well. When they told me that I almost felt like crying, because that meant so much to me. There has been a lot of rematches with the girls around me, who did not work out well with their families and that has made me very nervous recently. Especially since we didn't make the easiest start with me going back home for a week after only one month (it definatly caused some friction that really concerned me). But I'm so glad that things turn out to go really well, and really I can not imagine how I could possibly have a better fit with a family then with this one. Quite honestly I just have the most fun job, the easiest kids and the most free time of any of the other girls I talk too, so I just can not believe how lucky I am.

I know that drama is always more interesting to read, but I'm sorry, I can't give you any. ;) I'm feeling like I'm right where I should be and I have no doubt that this will be one of the best experiences of my life. :)

*edit 9/29: The ticket is booked! Going to the Virgin Islands and L.A.!!