Adventures Back East

October 1 - 7, 2008

A couple of weeks ago, my mom called me and said "Sarah and I are going to Boston to visit Leah. What are you going to do?" HELLO! I can't have my two sisters and my mom hanging out without me! Obviously I had to book my ticket right away. Thank goodness for frequent flier miles! We headed out on Wednesday, October 1.

Mom & Sarah at the Airport while we were waiting for Leah

We got into Boston and headed straight to the North End to have dinner at the most amazing Italian Restaurant - Giacomo's. Mom and Leah had butternut squash ravioli, I had pumpkin tortellini, and Sarah had chicken parmesan. It was awesome food!

Mom & Leah at Giacomo's

Me & Sarah at Giacomo's

After that, we headed to Mike's Pastry. Can't go to the North End without getting some cannolis, right? Well, I can...cannolis are gross! The other girls loved them, though.

We drove around for a while to see the city at night and then headed back to Leah's house. She lives in a really cute apartment above a store. She has three really great roommates that were so nice to put up with us.

The “Bobbsie Twins”...dubbed by the employees of The Eye Institute of Boston (Leah's work) because of our bright pink eyeshadow. Sarah tried to convince me that I could get away with wearing pink eyeshadow...we'll see if I am ever daring enough to do it outside of vacation. Hmm...

The next day Leah had to work, so me, Sarah, and mom walked the

Freedom Trail to Faneuil Hall ......and learned some history along the way.

We picked up Leah from work and headed to Vermont to go leaf peeping.

It was absolutely beautiful!

Mom, Sarah, & Leah - this was at a rest stop somewhere in Vermont or New Hampshire

We had tons of fun on on the way to Sharon, VT

which is the birthplace of Joseph Smith.

We went to the Trapp Family Lodge...you know, The Sound of Music family.

On Friday, we went to Glouster and then up to Rockport. We had a great day shopping in a cute little town. Leah knew of this cool lighthouse that’s not really available to the public and you have to go down this little private road to get to it. There weren’t very many people there, so it was really nice.

Boats at dock in Rockport.

We ended the day at Kimball Farm, which is known for their ice cream. It was delicious!

Saturday we got up really early and headed down to New York. My cousin’s wife has a connection through her work that has an apartment in the city. It was a great place!

We went to all the normal touristy sites and had so much fun! We went to The Little Mermaid on Broadway, Times Square, Rockefeller Center, and the Statue of Liberty to name a few. New York was great as always!

Leah, Sarah, & Mom at Rockefeller Center

This was part of the Berlin Wall and was displayed in Battery Park

On Monday, we drove back to Boston. We went through Connecticut, which was beautiful. On our way to Rhode Island, we found this super cute pumpkin patch called The Farmer’s Daughter. There were the most creative displays of all sorts of squash and gourds. We were there for so long just walking around and snapping pictures.

We got to Newport, RI and saw all the mansions. We went on part of the cliff walk and, again, took tons of pictures.
Alas, it was time to leave...We left and returned home on Tuesday and had to get right back to life. Thanks Leah for having us and showing us such a great time!!!

Here is a link to more of the pictures if you’re interested…Enter at your own risk!!!

Sarah's Pictures

Becca's Pictures

Picture Tag

Stephanie tagged me with this picture post! Here's what you do: go to the fourth folder of your pictures, and post the fourth picture and tell about it!

K, so this is a little funny. I have this folder for weird pictures I have and pictures that I have done weird things with. So it happens to be the forth folder in my pictures folder. I wish the forth picture was something else, so much so that I almost cheated and picked a different picture! Oh well, this is me. This was a pic that we took while on the drive from Boston to Vermont. Sarah and I were having so much fun taking weird pics of ourselves. As if it weren't weird enough, I altered it with a few color changes and here is what it ended up as. I actually put this as the desktop background on my work computer (imagine a 19" monitor with THIS!) because I thought it was pretty funny. It also doesn't hurt that it keeps people away from my office. :)

I tag: Ali Cox, Melody Cox, Janae Cox, Camille Giles, Heather Harbert

Do it.

So, I'm a little annoyed...

I am a little slow at updating my blog and here's why... My hard drive on my laptop was getting so full so I hardly had any room. I moved all my iTunes onto an external drive, but now my pictures are taking up way too much space. Frustrating!!! I just moved all my pictures to the external drive and decided to clean up my computer. I reformatted the hard drive so now I have plenty of space on my computer. Well, I am really annoyed at the fact that I have to plug in my external drive to listen to any music AND to look at any pictures. LAME!!! I am now in the process of deciding what to do! I guess I'm gonna have to break down and get a bigger hard drive for my computer. AAAHHHH!!!! K, so I know you're probably thinking "what do I care?" And, well, you probably don't care, but I needed to vent and what a better place than my blog? K, that's all.

Fall Colors

My mom called me on Saturday and asked if I'd like to go up the canyon and take pictures of the beautiful fall colors. Of course! We walked around Silver Lake up by Brighton and took pictures of just about everything. Here are some of the pictures...
I'll add some more when I feel like playing with the mosaic thing again. :)

Good Times BBQ

My old roommates, (and still friends, of course) Stephanie and Angela try to get together at least once a month. Well, we had already gotten together once in September, but we had so much fun that we decided to do a little something more. We went to Angela & Derek's house for a BBQ. Steph's husband, Kenny, was going to come too, but had something else going on so it was just us girls and Derek. We just hung out and chatted for a while.

Steph was nice enough to provide the meat for everyone. She put together some hamburgers, which were delicious, but were a little too big. Derek had to cut them in half and then in forths just to get them to cook all the way through. It was pretty funny...

Emma woke from her nap and her and Kira played for a while. Emma, Ang's daughter, was calling Kira her "little sister"...it was super cute! Anyway, we all had a good time and we made sure to book our next night in. Hopefully by then Ang and Derek will have their new little one, MaryAlayne (cute, huh?)

Movie Night

Lisa is always finding the coolest deals and winning everything. Well, she is on top of the movie premiers that come up so she invited me and Stephanie to this one...Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.

I really liked the movie. There was some crude humor, but I usually find that stuff pretty funny. There was one part that I had to block out because it was so disgusting...it had to do with barf. Ewww...

Anyway, we had so much fun. It was fun to see Lisa again and we'll for sure hang out more often. Thanks for the hook up Lisa!!!

A Walk in the Park

Steph and I decided to make good use of the beautiful weather and spend some time outside. We went to dinner at Bajio, then went over to a park close by and walked for a while. We always have a good time just chatting...sometimes about nothing and sometimes about plenty. Kira was being so cute and just enjoying the scenery. I couldn't believe how well behaved she was!

Quirky!!!! I was tagged and so are you!

I was tagged by my sister-in-law, Heather.

Rules: Link the person who tagged you.

Mention the rules on your blog.

Tell 6 unspectacular quirky things about you or your family.

Tag 6 fellow bloggers by linking them.

Leave a comment on each of the tagged bloggers'

blogs letting them know they have been tagged.

1. I am terrified of bridges! For some reason, I can't stand driving over them - they freak me out! I have been on quite a few, but some I refuse to go across! There is one huge bridge connecting Astoria, Oregon to Washington that I will NEVER cross! The largest bridge I went across (because I had no choice) was driving from Key Largo to Key West. The whole time we were crossing I was chanting the "Betty Botter" tongue twister just to keep my mind off it...Lame, I know, but I can't help it! This is why my crossing the suspension bridge on one of my previous posts was such a huge accomplishment.
2. I straighten rug tassels. Again, I know it's lame. I don't usually notice I'm doing it, but if I'm sitting by a rug that has tassels, I will sit there until they are all untangled and completely straight. I can't have any rugs with tassels in my house! My family has made fun of me for this for as long as I can remember!
3. Do you remember that 'Culligan Man' commercial where that little cartoon lady yells "Hey Culligan Man?" I don't even remember when the last time was that I saw that commercial. Everytime I see a Culligan truck, I yell (out loud. in my car. by myself.) "Hey Culligan Man!" in the same voice of that cartoon.
4. I can't stand radio morning shows...well, any talking on the radio at all! I always have a book on CD playing in my car. I am driving all the time, so I go through about a book a week and I love it. Sometimes I will just drive around to finish listening to it. You'd think with the gas prices I'd avoid it, but no.
5. There are 22 stars that surround the mountain in the opening of Paramount movies. How do I know this? I count them EVERY time I see them on the screen. I have an obsession with counting everything! How many stairs to get to my room from the main level? 14. Nine on the first flight and five on the second. How many to get to my basement? 13. Five and then eight. How many in my mom's house to get upstairs?...you get the idea!
6. When the windows are down in my car, I have to make sure they are even. Say someone in my back seat rolls there window down, a window on the opposite side has to be rolled down the same amount. I haven't decided why this is. I originally thought that it was because of the noise. I think it started out that way, but it didn't used to have to be even. It was just that if a window was down on the right side, there had to be one down on the left. It has gradually morphed into having to be even.

Ok, so after writing these out, I think I may be a little more OCD than I originally tought! Oops! My family makes fun of me sometimes for it, but I always thought they were exaggerating a little...I guess not.

I hope you enjoyed this brief look into my quirky life! Now it is your turn, I tag Stephanie, Camille, Angela, Ali, Janae, Mom, and Lisa Price. I hope you all are well and up to the challenge!