Last weekend, I drove up to New Paltz to visit Bianca for delicious food and antique shopping, so I took a few photos. We changed into natural kei and ate lunch at the Village Tea Room, which is one of my favorite tea places even though it's 3 hours from my house. haha I usually get the Potato and Toussaint tart, but this time I tried the Gravlax ( Read more... )

On September 10-11th, I visited New York for the weekend to see some California friends who were visiting ♥ I got up early (though not as early as I planned) to wait in line for rush tickets to How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying with Julie, Sandy, and Dalin. After camping out in line for a few hours and chatting, we successfully got ( Read more... )

For my 29th birthday, myself and seven others stayed at the Shearer Elegance bed & breakfast in Linfield, PA for a weekend!

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Here's part two of my Otakon review! (  ~~ cut for more rambling and cell phone pictures ~~ )

I'm copying Angel's idea and splitting up my entries by day so it's more manageable. haha This entry is rather glowing because I have only good feelings about Thursday and Friday. XDD It was so nice to see old friends again and meet new ones, which turned out to be an important reason for attending in the first place. ♥
(  ~~ click for a full review with pictures behind the cut ~~ )

I have a backlog of posts to make and they're all out of chronological order now, but whatever. e_e;; I have so many pictures!


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My mom, dad, and I are driving to visit my eldest sister Sarah and her family in Illinois this weekend. We left at 5 am this morning and the trip takes somewhere between 10-12 hours. Yeah. So feel free to email or text or otherwise bother me all day so I don't go stir crazy in the back seat of the car. DDX ( Read more... )

The city is beautiful. I want to visit again as soon as possible, no joke. Friendly people, hills, trees, sea breeze, trolleys, architecture, restaurants-- everything was perfect. It's the first time I've wanted to use the word "charming" so many times about a city in a while. :D ( Click for a ton of photos and descriptions! )