.auld lang syne.

.happy new year, all!.

here, have a cupcake. from magnolia, during our recent visit in to NYC.

and, some requisite couple shots.

.cheers.

.oops.

.sorry for the delay, folks.

it's been a busy summer!


i'm hoping to blog more frequently now that things have settled down, but i'll leave you with some pictures from san diego this august.

.cheers.

.magical land.

.switzerland, that is.

round two of blogging about the best trip ever! get ready for a long post. lots of pictures coming your way! from the day after the proposal (yay!). interlaken, trip up the funicular to harder kulm, train ride to bern. baby bears. a fiance. it was a good day.

view from our hotel room, looking out towards thuner see

thuner see

me from the hotel room

alpine water! and fiance! yay!

brienzer see, from harder kulm. we had to take a funicular up a beautiful steep, high mountain. it was awesome

thunder see, from harder kulm

my amazing fiance. isn't he cute?

train ride from interlaken to bern

there were some crazy, fantastic statues at the top of fountains all over bern. this one has a man eating his children.

bern clock

bern is so lovely

baby bears in bern!

mmm. fabulous beers by the bears in bern. try saying that one ten times fast

sorry, had to sneak another ring shot in here. even though my hand is dry. and my fingers look like nubbins. i'm just going through ring withdrawls - we had to send it in for resizing.

beautiful bern. love the wisteria

i am the happiest, luckiest girl in the world.

.cheers.

56 - done!

56. go out to high tea

so, i hadn't even remembered that this was on my 101 in 1001 list until i looked at the list for my last post and realized hey! i did that this summer!

and, the best part? i got to go with this lovely lady.

yep. that's right. i had three amazing females as house guests this summer! it was quite busy and hectic and full, but i loved it. first mom, then m, then bear. she was here the longest, which was great, because i hadn't seen her in a while. boston was her stopping point prior to heading across the pond to lille.

anyway, back to high tea. we went to high tea at upstairs on the square, which is, surprisingly, smack in the middle of harvard square. it is apparently a great restaurant, but this was the first time i had been there (j has had several snooty hah-vahd soirees there), and i loved it! the tea room is very pink and a fun mix of modern and old-fashioned. and the tea service was pretty good!

lots of yummy sweets, and some really good sandwiches. i think my favorite food was the bacon-wrapped date - it was amazing. i had the rose tea, my absolute favorite, and they bring you refills, which is nice.

all in all, a really great high tea experience. it made me think of all the times we used to go to the empress in victoria for high tea. mmm. i love tea.

and i love this little sister.


oh, and sorry for the terrible quality of the pictures - pulled c's pictures from facebook, and mine are just with my p & s. except the last one.

.cheers.

79 - done!

79. force Mary to visit

so, originally this was for me to take m out for drinks at the top of the hub, but when she was here, i completely forgot. oops. sorry buddy :(

anyway, i forced yet another person to come visit me this summer (yes, yes, this post is about 4 months late. another oops) - my best friend since kindergarten. M. she is amazing, and she made the long trek out to boston for a long weekend while i was all by my lonesome this summer.

it was so great having her here! we went to salem, went to one of the harbor islands, got tasty food, went to the mfa, drank beer, and generally had fun. like we always do.

unfortunately, i sucked at taking pictures when she was here, mainly because we were too busy hanging out and catching up. so the trip is not too well documented photographically.

i miss my buddy, but i'm really glad that she journeyed out to the east coast to see me (next stop - DC?)


.cheers.

80 - done!

80. fly my mom out to visit me in boston

this was one of the items on my list that i was most looking forward to! way back in july, i forced mom out for a visit. just kidding, i know she wanted to see me.

she was here for a little over a week (10-19 july), and it was awesome. so much fun, and i'm glad that she was able to come out and see where i live, and explore boston/ new england a bit with me. i didn't take too many pictures, but here are some (both dslr and my point and shoot).

'dewey cheetham and howe.' fictitious law firm in harvard square. just say it out loud if you don't get it at first. mom got a kick out of this.

harvard law review building, where obama was president of the law review back in the day. mom is down on the chair in the left corner - she's hiding

me and mommy at the law review building.

mom and inger - long-time friend of mom's from their cooperstown days

candid shot of the ladies

beautiful janicki family

mom and inger at the beach

weeee. seagulls

for some reason, i love this beach shot. i think it's the rainbow umbrella

red sox game! mom at yawkey way (thanks doug!)

mom on spectacle island - one of the boston harbor islands. boston in the background

my beautiful mom! on the ferry to the harbor islands

note: contrary to what you might think, looking at these pictures - we did not wear the same thing every day that mom was here. most of the pictures were taken on a few days; i didn't take my camera with me very often when she was here.

anyway, i love my mom, and loved that she took time to come out to visit! the worst thing about living on the east coast is being so far away from family and friends.

love you, mom!

.cheers.