Holy smokes, work starts on Friday. <em>This Friday</em>. Friday the 2nd.

Don't get me wrong, I've known this for a while. It's just snuck up on me. I've been enjoying two months of summer vacation and in July September seemed so far away. Now September is nearly upon us.

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School is about to start. <em>School</em>. School starts on September 15th.

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It doesn't seem like it could possibly be time for school to start up again but it is. Or at least that's what my calendar tells me.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="614" caption="Silly sisters"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large" title="Silly sister photo, two" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6095535869/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6200/6095535869_9d9b7cdd8d_b.jpg" alt="Silly sister photo, two" width="614" height="410" /></a>[/caption]

Rather than dwell on that, I decided to pull together some snap shots from the summer. That's a much better use of my time after all and more productive than drinking a beer at a cafe in downtown Sofia and lamenting the loss of summer.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="614" caption="Silly sisters, two"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large" title="Silly sister photo, one" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6096078156/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6206/6096078156_7f35e4b076_b.jpg" alt="Silly sister photo, one" width="614" height="410" /></a>[/caption]

Luckily for me, I had a great summer vacation and as if that wasn't great enough, we also have some serious holidays during the month of September.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="614" caption="Brother and me at a baseball game"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large" title="Brother and me at a baseball game" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6096077652/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6067/6096077652_e69a7f6211_b.jpg" alt="Brother and me at a baseball game" width="614" height="410" /></a>[/caption]

After the first day of work, we have a four day weekend from September 3-6th! Hip-hip-houray. Black Sea here I come. Then school starts in the middle of a week and the very next week we have another four day weekend from the 22nd to the 25th.  I'll be hopping on a plane and heading to Stuttgart for the Cannstatter Volksfest.<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large" title="Taking photos with dAd" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6096079166/"><img class="alignnone" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6188/6096079166_59060fa09e_b.jpg" alt="Taking photos with dAd" width="1024" height="683" /></a>

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="614" caption="In Elena with teachers"]<a class="tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large" title="In Elena" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29050866@N06/6096079458/"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6080/6096079458_73501276a0_b.jpg" alt="In Elena" width="614" height="410" /></a>[/caption]

Three cheers for holidays in Bulgaria. Oh and three cheers for my cuttie-puttie high school students. I'm not-so-secretly looking forward to seeing their smiling faces as well.