Friday, March 25, 2011
still in Bloomington
not much of consequence has happened in the last couple of days. the wether was beautiful and i was getting really hot in my prague boots (or my kazdy den boty) which were the only pair of shoes i brought, so i bought some new sea-foam sneakers from urban outfitters and then the next day it snowed...
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Bloomington
I'm at katie's college house now! it's so awesome it reminds me of the little town in new york where i visited kesslie, Tivoli. This is also reminding my of visiting hailey at lewis & clark except for x10 because for one this campus is bigger and for two because i'm here for a whole week instead of a couple hours here and there.
we rode bikes to fetch katie's laptop out of the her friend josh's car. i.am.so.out.of.shape. i had to recover for a good 30 min. earlier we ate yummy sandwiches and shared a pitcher of beer before walking through her campus. Her house is awesome too, she has 4 roomates, so there's 5 girls living here and they all seem super nice. the house is really old, again like the layout of hailey's except no one who reads this blog has been to haileys house i dont think...
katie's room is connected to the bathroom and kitchen and a sunroom which is connected to the outdoors. downstairs has lots large dark molding and stain glass windows. i'm taking pictures but have no way to upload them....so yea, sorry 'bout that.
tomorrow its suppose to be 75 but rainy. we're going to a library and grocery shopping!
we rode bikes to fetch katie's laptop out of the her friend josh's car. i.am.so.out.of.shape. i had to recover for a good 30 min. earlier we ate yummy sandwiches and shared a pitcher of beer before walking through her campus. Her house is awesome too, she has 4 roomates, so there's 5 girls living here and they all seem super nice. the house is really old, again like the layout of hailey's except no one who reads this blog has been to haileys house i dont think...
katie's room is connected to the bathroom and kitchen and a sunroom which is connected to the outdoors. downstairs has lots large dark molding and stain glass windows. i'm taking pictures but have no way to upload them....so yea, sorry 'bout that.
tomorrow its suppose to be 75 but rainy. we're going to a library and grocery shopping!
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Splash Universe Amish Inn
I literally have a picture of a sliding glass door with "Splash Universe" on one side and "Amish Inn" on the other.
It was pretty awesome though. We drove to Amish country with Katie's parents and her 4 year old nephew, Eliot. He shares a fear of Harry Potter movies with me and so I love him.
Her dad is a journalist and was going to write a travel piece for the Chicago Sun I believe. That being part of the reason for the short family vacation.
Our hotel was teeming with children, seeing as there was a water park within i should've expected it.
Some of you may not be aware of my fear of water slides but I was very good. There was a water slide in which you had to walk up all these stairs and go through all these dark tunnels but I did it! and without hardly complaining! there was this horrible giant bucket that would fill with water and then every 5 min or so would dump over which was loud and terrifying. it successfully kept me off the play structure.
We shared one room with 9 of Katie's family members plus baby. her dad and mom were on the pull out bed in the living room. katie, her younger brother and her two nephews and i shared 4 bunk beds in the "center" and then her older brother, his wife and their baby, Penelope, in the bedroom. there was one bathroom. i didn't freak out though, everyone was super nice, and really loud especially compared to hailey's family which is the only other family, aside from my own, which i have been on a road trip with.
tonight we went to a st. Patrick's day party of katie's dad's high school friends. then we came home to watch more harry potter. katie had to leave to take her brother to get his car and i had to change the channel because apparently i can't watch harry potter alone in a house.
i'm watching everybody loves raymond now.
It was pretty awesome though. We drove to Amish country with Katie's parents and her 4 year old nephew, Eliot. He shares a fear of Harry Potter movies with me and so I love him.
Her dad is a journalist and was going to write a travel piece for the Chicago Sun I believe. That being part of the reason for the short family vacation.
Our hotel was teeming with children, seeing as there was a water park within i should've expected it.
Some of you may not be aware of my fear of water slides but I was very good. There was a water slide in which you had to walk up all these stairs and go through all these dark tunnels but I did it! and without hardly complaining! there was this horrible giant bucket that would fill with water and then every 5 min or so would dump over which was loud and terrifying. it successfully kept me off the play structure.
We shared one room with 9 of Katie's family members plus baby. her dad and mom were on the pull out bed in the living room. katie, her younger brother and her two nephews and i shared 4 bunk beds in the "center" and then her older brother, his wife and their baby, Penelope, in the bedroom. there was one bathroom. i didn't freak out though, everyone was super nice, and really loud especially compared to hailey's family which is the only other family, aside from my own, which i have been on a road trip with.
tonight we went to a st. Patrick's day party of katie's dad's high school friends. then we came home to watch more harry potter. katie had to leave to take her brother to get his car and i had to change the channel because apparently i can't watch harry potter alone in a house.
i'm watching everybody loves raymond now.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Indiana
oh and its st patricks day! big deal for chicagoians apparently. met up with katie and josh today. drank some berrrs, went to a college improve comedy thing. that was awesome. then we took cab back to katie's car and we drove somewhere for a while to get to her parents house. its so weird. it felt like this vacation i took with my mom to arizona when we were driving between pheonix and tucson in the middle of the night except that my mom isnt here. its just me and katie. makin decisions all on my own.
we pulled up to katies house and it struck me just how very very bizare this situation is. i met this girl in prague. she lives in indiana. now i am at the house she grew up in. i just love to think about how when i met her at the orientation the first day (we barely said more than a couple words to eachother), how i could never of fathomed that i would someday be at her parents house in indiana!
its 2:28 am, we just got here maybe 20 min ago. her whole family is in bed. im in the "den" or office area on her dad's computer. tomorrow we're waking up at 7ish to go to the amish country. its all just so bizarre.
we pulled up to katies house and it struck me just how very very bizare this situation is. i met this girl in prague. she lives in indiana. now i am at the house she grew up in. i just love to think about how when i met her at the orientation the first day (we barely said more than a couple words to eachother), how i could never of fathomed that i would someday be at her parents house in indiana!
its 2:28 am, we just got here maybe 20 min ago. her whole family is in bed. im in the "den" or office area on her dad's computer. tomorrow we're waking up at 7ish to go to the amish country. its all just so bizarre.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
New Adventure!!!!
I was struggling to figure out what to do with this blog after i returned home and didn't have anything interesting to share. Enter, Colleen Mae and Katie Taylor. Two of my very best friends that I met in Prague who live respectively in Chicago and Bloomington Indiana. Sure my savings might have been put to better use paying off my student loans, but thats not nearly as fun as going to the MIDWEST!!!!
So now I'm in Colleens apartment, north-side...lakeview, listening to passion pit as we get ready to embrace the day. it's sunny and suppose to be a 58 degrees today . (take that mom). i'm wearing my neon green tee-shirt with the big headphones on it (thats parts for you cassandra).
my flight over was just peachy. got on the L train which was awesome, like disneyland for an architecture student. Apartment buildings in chicago are small but most of them have wooden porches/fire escapes in the back. it reminds of the wild west. Then colleen and i ate deep dish pizza at gino's east. it was good but made me uncomfortable for the rest of night. we went to some bar with her friend lynn called "alive one" and met some romanian dudes one of which colleen is seeing cause he was her cab driver.
today we're doing something to do with millenium park, and michigan lake, and something about a bean...
So now I'm in Colleens apartment, north-side...lakeview, listening to passion pit as we get ready to embrace the day. it's sunny and suppose to be a 58 degrees today . (take that mom). i'm wearing my neon green tee-shirt with the big headphones on it (thats parts for you cassandra).
my flight over was just peachy. got on the L train which was awesome, like disneyland for an architecture student. Apartment buildings in chicago are small but most of them have wooden porches/fire escapes in the back. it reminds of the wild west. Then colleen and i ate deep dish pizza at gino's east. it was good but made me uncomfortable for the rest of night. we went to some bar with her friend lynn called "alive one" and met some romanian dudes one of which colleen is seeing cause he was her cab driver.
today we're doing something to do with millenium park, and michigan lake, and something about a bean...
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