Sooo my excuse for not writing more on Friday is that Kerry, Emily, and myself may have spent close to 4 hours making a stop motion video. It’s utterly ridiculous and amazing. If it is ever put on youtube I will share. Then, as Kerry and Emily finished editing, I went to play pool with Sara and Zack and managed to beat them both soundly at foosball ( Read more... )

Starting right in:

Thursday, July 9th: I had made plans with John and Cindy previously to visit the Ramones Museum that was just around the corner from the IES center. I’m going to tell you right now it’s a total tourist trap and we all knew that going in. But we all got cool buttons out of it, so it works out in the end.

So yea, we met up after ( Read more... )

July 5th saw Jill and I getting up relatively early for another brunch. This time with Maddie, Anna, and some of Jill’s other American friends. This was definitely a just-throw-on-shoes-and-call-it-good endeavor.  I got lots of comments on my pink argyle socks.  I laughed. That is generally what happened when you show up for brunch in basketball ( Read more... )

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I made it to the Tram station at pretty much right on time to see Bev sitting at the café/kiosk eating a sandwich and talking to a strange man. Apparently he had randomly sat with her as she was eating and proceeded to drunkenly hit on her. It was 9 am. He ( Read more... )

OK, so I know it’s been awhile but I’m finally going to finish talking about Bev’s visit. Starting up again from Saturday:

After all of our cavorting around and being lazy as all get out the previous days of her visit we decided we needed to get up super early and hit up as many museums/things as possible.

We began our day by going to Unter den ( Read more... )

Alright, once again my life took off at a run and I’m playing catch up. Unfortunately my feet still hurt and I’m running on empty.

Wednesday, before the opera, Rose and I decided to go buy brownie fixings so that we could make brownies on Friday. Fantastic idea if I do say so myself, I’m quite glad she thought of it. At any rate, while we were ( Read more... )