Typical New York

Nothing major posted here...just some photos of me living my life.

Happy Birthday, Caitlin!!! Six girls and four giant pizzas was absolutely perfect. It was also blizzarding out as we ventured
downtown to this pizza restaurant, which made it all the more adventurous.

Quite an incredible candy cake 😱 Jayne, Caroline, and I had a day wandering around SoHo
and stumbling upon crazy cakes, plant shops, fancy stores, and of course, delicious pizza.

I spy the three of us.

Not a great food photo, I know. But it is delicious conference soup for conference weekend.

I got this picture of Nicholas and found it to be inspirational.

REAL vs NYCFC

T

Tina and I have spent the last two Spring Breaks together (as seen here if you care to brave the long catch-up post and here) so it was only fitting that we spend this one together as well. Unfortunately, our Spring Breaks (idk if those words are actually supposed to be capitalized or not...) did not align this year, but it worked out perfectly for Tina to come out to New York!! I love visitors. I love Tina. It was perfect. 

We began the trip with the Mat Kearney and Andrew Belle concert. Loved them. Got Andrew Belle's signature and bought a pin. Unsuccessfully shouted for Mat Kearney to play our favorite song. Cheered loudly when he asked who in the audience was from Oregon. (Yes, I do know that I am not from Oregon and I also recognize that Washington and Oregon are not the same. But when you're clear across the country and when you love WA like you're from there and someone famous is from WA's neighboring state, you cheer like you're from there, cuz PNW.)

Undocumented highlight: Having a couple of hours to kill before Phantom of the Opera, so reserving a tiny room at a K-Town karaoke bar for just the two of us. We were stars.

Other highlights included eating at a restaurant Tina was super excited about that I can't remember now (someone from a cooking show started it), eating a pretty gross milkshake from Tom's Diner, and Tina painting my nails.

Do you ever feel
like a plastic bag
drifting through the wind
wanting to start again?

Millennials, am I right? 🙄😉

For your viewing pleasure.

I have no clue what I did to warrant this look, but I'm sure happy I did it.

I love you, T!! Come back soon 😘

Oooh the Bahamas?!

Whenever I think of the Bahamas, I imagine a far away fancy place that I will never see. Boy, was I wrong. When you live on the East Coast, people go to the Bahamas all the time. It's like the East Coast's Hawaii (but even closer - took me 2.5 hours to fly there from JFK 😱).

My dad had a conference in Nassau, so naturally my whole family decided to tag along. They had been once before while I was at UW, but back then it was simply too much travel for the amount of time I would be able to be there. Needless to say, I was stoked to get to go this time. (Sidebar: I believe it was their last Bahamas trip that was being referenced when one of my brothers said, "Courtney, you're gone. You're not part of the family now." ooooh man hahah gotta love having little brothers to keep ya humble.)

I arrived the night before my family, so I had an entire evening to spend alone in the Bahamas. I napped on the beach (for an hour!!), got settled in the hotel room, attempted to explore the resort, decided the resort had too many confusing paths to navigate in the dark and I could see it in the morning, returned to my room, watched TV, and went to bed.

The resort we stayed at was basically a big fun water park. We spent the whole time on the slides and in the water and therefore took no pictures to document the fun time we had (have no fear...I took a couple #basic photos for you on my day alone. Yayy.) Highlights: seeing my family, seeing the sun.

To read about our day-to-day activities and notes for your own trip to Atlantis, I will refer you to a well-documented blog I love written by my mother herself. My Story: http://6shaefs.blogspot.com/2018/03/atlantis-nassau-bahamas.html

(basic photos, as promised)