This just about sums up my experience of visiting my long-distance soul (SOL) mate after spending an extended amount of time apart. I hope you can relate!

*Disclaimer: "Sol mates" was what they called us on our study abroad adventure this summer.

1. From the moment you separate, you begin things like seventy-day snap chat streaks, weekly FaceTime calls and plan-making for future reunions. The countdown is real.
2. The reunion! You’ve been apart for forever (it seems) and are a little discombobulated at first, seeing your sol mate in a place that’s not where you left her.
3. If you’re lucky, you’ll get to meet your SOL mate’s family and see a more wacky, more personable, and more intimate side of her. And you discover you love her family almost as much as you love her.
4. You learn what true friendship means when she lets you have the last chocolate popsicle.
5. You see her campus for yourself and get treated to the best of college campus food.
6. You start an ice-cream-consumption streak of three times a day, after all, you’re celebrating!
7. You also find out other things you have in common, like spending copious amounts of time in a second-hand bookstore.
8. You go on a date to the movies together.
9. You can always count on her to take care of you (i.e. make you really really good food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner).
10. You act like grown-ups together by visiting a farmer’s market and buying your own groceries.
11. You continue to plan your future endeavors, knowing you'll be together again soon (ours include opening the first gluten free bakery in Costa Rica, equipped with delicious green smoothies and gluten free pastries!)
12. You know you'll be leaving her soon...But
13. You know you'll see each other soon!