Everybody looks forward to their long weekend in October most commonly known as fall break.

Things went a little off course this year. With the recent hurricane that took place, our lovely fall break was canceled this year. Who knew they could cancel fall break? Is that even legal?

With that said, I bought my plane tickets to go “home” back in July. I moved to Hilton Head about a year ago and grew up in Massachusetts. So my going “home” this year was a little different for me. If someone asks me where I’m from, I say Massachusetts, even though I live in Hilton Head now. Where I was born and raised in my home with me and it will always be.

So going from 83 to 55 degree weather was a big change for me. But it was the best change and felt like home as soon as I got off that plane.

Fall in the south is extremely different from fall in the north. We got to visit my favorite places when I went home and it honestly made me want to cry. Being back home brought back so many memories and I absolutely loved every second of it. I got to see all of my family members I’m extremely close with and haven’t seen in almost a year.

Coming back to Charleston from being in the cold weather for five days was definitely a change. Here in Charleston, we have days where it’s 61 in the morning and 75 in the afternoon. It’s the type of weather where you wear a sweater in the morning and quickly regret it in the afternoon and change into shorts. Getting away for those five days made it really nice to be home.