I'm Baaaaack!

Hey team!

So... it's been over a month since I've blogged. Oops.

It all started when my dear friend Jillian visited. She's doing a residency at a pottery studio a couple of hours outside Seattle, so she came a few days early to visit.

Gum wall!

While she was here, Halloween happened.

Black and white movie star

Then, I was busy with a bunch of social obligations. No excuse for not blogging, really, but it's what happened.

After that, I visited Philadelphia for a weekend. I saw a bunch of old friends and also went to see First Date on Broadway!

Philly's City Hall

In early November, I found out that Star Wars was hosting open auditions for the lead roles in their upcoming trilogy, so my brother and I decided that we HAD to go. Star Wars is a very important part of our close friendship, our childhood, and how we perceive ourselves (an absurd amount of weight for a fictional universe to carry in our lives, I know), so there wasn't a thing you could do to keep us from there.

So we flew to London. For a weekend. For Star Wars auditions.

Westminster Abbey

Buckingham Palace

Big Ben

Then it was Thanksgiving, which I spent with extended family in Portland. And now I'm finally back at home, gathering my wits from the most insane November I think I've ever had, and trying to find my footing with my personal projects going forward.

On the bright side, all this travel means that I had a lot of plane time for crocheting! Stay tuned for updates on what I've made!

BOSTON!!!

So I've kind of dropped the ball on getting my regularly-scheduled posts out for the past week, but I feel like I have a relatively decent excuse: I was on vacation!

I have a couple of friends living in Boston right now, so I took advantage of my job's generous paid time off policy to take a long weekend seeing a corner of the East Coast I'd never seen before. You might recall from my goal list that I hope to visit all 50 states in my life, and on this trip I knocked a whopping THREE off the list!

I spent most my time in Boston, but went to Rhode Island for Corgi-palooza (a friend of a friend was performing and I wasn't about to pass up on that opportunity!) and Connecticut to visit a friend who is an RA at a summer camp there.

Here are some pictures of my adventures. Unfortunately, I am terrible about taking pictures, so I managed to leave without getting any pictures of me with my friends, but I did get some good shots of some historical places in Boston!

The East Cost has the most healthy hydrangeas I've ever seen. Look at the colors! 

Park St church 

The Old Corner Bookstore (one of the oldest publishing houses in the country) is now a CHIPOTLE.  Sad.

This is the guy who rode with Paul Revere. Frankly, I think he's bitter Longfellow's poem wasn't about him.

Ok, I lied. I got ONE picture with one of my friends. CHEESE!

This sums up Boston for me - history in the heart of a gorgeous city. 

Hot and humid though my trip might have been, I had a ton of fun and can't wait to go back!