this weekend i went to go visit a friend who recently moved out of the area.
her new home looks like a movie set, with little shops and restaurants and people walking their dogs, and folks in cars NOT honking.
where people paint their doors orange.
and bridges are covered in flowers.
only downside, they might be a little behind with the times. "back to the future" was playing at the movie theater.
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day 150 -- i hate work by the way.
hi! i've got a connection!
my drive down was uneventful. i took a little detour in east hartford to meet j for lunch (he's been in connecticut on a job since monday) and drove steadily until i hit traffic approaching the george washington bridge. i know, i know, i probably should have avoided that whole area but i go where the garmin lady tells me to go.
i got at my destination in time for an adult beverage (or two) and dinner. so far the overwhelming theme of this little mini-vacation has been food. really yummy and extravagant food. (sorry, no pictures. i'm still not comfortable pulling out my camera to take pictures of my dinner while dining with someone from my "real life." ) anyway, last night i had a seafood fra diavolo platter with lobster tail and calamari and scallops and langoustine (with head -- we had to cover the head).
then today my friend took me to work with her. and it's been really interesting. really. i like to observe people in their natural habitat. (and it's not like i went to MY job). plus i got to tag along with her and two of her colleagues on a 3 hour "working" lunch. (and another fabulous meal -- those lawyers sure know how to conduct a business meeting).
anyway, we're packing up to head back to the house soon. and maybe if there's time, we might be able to go for a boat ride before dinner!
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day 132 -- new jersey and you, perfect together.
hi! i know it's thursday. today is the first day since coming back from Rhinebeck that i don't feel broken. yes, rhinebeck physically broke me. "humpty dumpty sat on a wall and had a great fall" broke me. but since i wasn't counting on all of the king's men to put me together again (why ask a man to do something when a woman can do it better) i'm all fixed now. oof!
anyway, by now you've heard all about rhinebeck and probably couldn't give a rat's ass about reading another post about it, but i have pictures and nothing else to talk about, so you're going to get a "what i did at rhinebeck" post from me. sue me.
so what did i do at rhinebeck?
1. i saw animals
2. i contemplated the buying and eating of snacks (but i was good at the fair only stuffing my face at dinner time).
3. i admired and fondled yarn and wool
4. i sold some cards!
(i might have pestered people to buy my cards. sorry the picture looks like crap).
5. i might have lovingly heckled jess and casey a little at the ravelry party. but it wasn't my fault. the devil made me do it. (and the raffle was totally rigged by the way).
6. i hung out with my boston/rochester/nyc/fresno-ish/connecticut girls (aka "my boyfriend."). not that you would know it though since without intending to, i spent a lot of time on my own. that's ok. i'm kind of maverick that way.
7. i bought a monkey wearing a sweater.
8. got kristin nicholas and clara parkes to sign copies of their new books for me. (totally awesome books by the way)
9. and finally met the yarnbee.
what didn't i do?
i didn't bring home any wool.
thanks so much for your enthusiasm for my cards. a few have asked if i plan on opening an etsy shop. maybe. i'll see how this goes. if there's enough interest i will. if and when i do though, you all will be the first to know. ha!
and i'm sitting at work here, getting all antsy because in just a couple of hours, the mini and i are hitting the road for rhinebeck. i think i have everything i need. a small project. some $$$. clothes. we are good to go.
this year i'm leaving j at home. he's got work to do.
OH! before i forget. i'm a "square" on both saturday and sunday. if you've never met me, check out last year's Blogger Bingo I'm A Square post.
LORIKEETS!
after doing a little googling, i learned that lorikeets are indigenous to australia and new guinea, so what they were doing in st. thomas, i don't know.
but they are awfully pretty.
when she saw this picture in flickr, adrian remarked that these two guys look like they're wearing matching pants. i think they also look like they're wearing orange and green yoke sweaters.
that little cup in front is filled with nectar. at coral world in st. thomas you could walk into their big cage and actually feed them.
*sigh*
anyone else not feel like blogging? because i certainly don't.
but i don't feel like doing work even less.
*sigh*
so here we go....
next stop on our cruise after a day at sea was Tortola, one of the islands of the British Virgin Islands. It was my first time in Tortola and after docking, my MIL and I decided to do a little exploring. Since it was 300 degrees, that got old fast. (I would just like to point out that my skin is the color of paste. I am not evolutionarily suited for the environmental or climatic conditions in this this part of the world. AND YES EVOLUTION IS PRETTY MUCH SCIENTIFIC FACT!!!)
so we quickly hopped on Captain Friendly's taxi/bus/pick-up truck with seats, for a 3 hour tour.
for $15 we got a little history (there were a lot of pirate stories .... arrrgggghhh) and current events (apparently the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies were filmed here) and we got to do a little shopping and a little relaxing and we got to see a lot of beautiful scenery.
*according to captain friendly, johnny depp stood on this beach*
two years ago, i went on a bermuda cruise with the inlaws. it was a nice easy cruise -- we left from boston, sailed to bermuda over a day and half, stayed in bermuda for 4 days, then sailed back. this year, the cruise was a totally different experience ... not bad ... just different. there was a lot of time spent at sea and very little time spent on land.
our first port of call was dockyard, bermuda. first of all, bermuda is beautiful. it was my favorite stopover. and because i'd been there before, i didn't waste any time with any of the on land excursions organized by the cruise line. j and i bought 1-day bus/ferry passes and hopped a ferry straight for st. george's, which is where i took all of these pictures.
the inlaws headed for the beach. j was bored out of his tree and wished he'd gone to the beach with them, but it's not like i hadn't warned him.
it's a good thing i get to go to beautiful places because otherwise i'd be really screwed when it came to posting pictures for Eye Candy Friday.
the first leg of our trip was to get ourselves to nyc which we did the night before we were to set sail. i hadn't been to nyc since july 2001 (yeah that long ago) so i got a little teary as we got off the last exit before the george washington bridge. (or it could have been because i was so relieved that we didn't end up in new jersey -- no offense to new jersey by the way -- it just wasn't our final destination). by the way, what kind of cluster-fuck is the cross-bronx expressway?
this sky overlooked the place de la bastille and the opera bastille.
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