Late last week, my mom and I had the chance to defend our title at the 2013 Mountain Magic golf tournament! This marks the third consecutive year that we’ve been partners (read 2011 and 2012 recaps here), and it was as fun, exhilarating and exhausting (in a good way) as ever. We arrived at the […]
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Europe, Day Four: Naples, Pompeii and Sorrento
Recaps so far: Day One – Paris via London Day Two – Versailles and the Latin Quarter Day Three – Four Corners, Four Views of Paris Though we were sad to say goodbye to Paris, we were very excited for the next leg of our European adventure: Italy! On Easter morning, we woke up bright […]
Europe, Day Three: Four Corners, Four Views of Paris
Recaps so far: Day One – Paris via London Day Two – Versailles and the Latin Quarter Looking back on our third day in Paris, I’ve learned two things. First, that we have a tendency to pack our days to the brim (thank you, decent walking shoes). Second, that we managed to explore four corners […]
Europe, Day Two: Versailles and the Latin Quarter
After arriving in Paris later than expected, we debated whether we should still devote an entire day to Versailles. With so much on our list to see in Paris, we started to think it might be better to spend the morning at Versailles and head back into the city for the afternoon instead. Then we […]
Red Pepper, Basil and Parmesan Gougère Bites + Ellie Update
Inspired by our Parisian book club meeting this past Sunday, I decided that my potluck contribution would be French. I don’t have much experience with cooking French food (I was going to insert a joke about French fries, French onion soup and French toast here, but thought it might elicit a few groans), so I […]
Reading Between The Wines: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
This weekend marked the second meeting of Reading Between the Wines. Our book selection this time around was a lot different than our first pick, but I love variety and jumping from young adult to historical fiction is pretty much my normal reading routine. Plus, I’d been wanting to read The Paris Wife by Paula […]
Spring Pinterest Partying + Karaoke
I took a short break from blogging this past week to enjoy a visit to a city you may have read about once or twice on this blog…Chicago! Officially, I was in town for a work conference, which was very interesting with a lot of great speakers. Unofficially, I arrived a few days early in […]
Sweets + Slap Bracelets: Ragnar Del Sol
I don’t even know where to begin but I’ll warn you, this post will be a long one! Ragnar Del Sol was a thrilling, challenging, exciting, nerve-wracking and unbelievably fun 36 hours of my life. The entire experience practically blew by from when we drove to the starting line at 3:00 am Friday morning to […]