B O S T A N

We did the Freedom Trail, a red brick road that goes around downtown for two miles so you can see all the historical Revolutionary War sites. Sorry New York, you are now tied with Boston for my top place to live. The history, the food and the cape style houses cannot be beat.

Salt Lake is just missing street performers. How much better would your walk to work be if you saw a scottish-unicycler-juggler? Your day would be better, I promise.

I'm the newest Boston Red Sox fan. I'm new to the whole American passion of baseball, this is only the third game i've been to. We (the Red Sox, obviously) were down 7-1 in the last inning. All the season ticket holders who go to four games a week left, but not us out of towners, we stuck it out for our team. The Red Sox came back and won it in the last inning. BEST GAME EVER. Huge celebrations, people and music all over the streets, I was living in Fever Pitch. Anyway, I like baseball now, it's a fun social activity, and interesting a few minutes out of the game. Go Red Sox!

C A L I F O R N I A

 

There is just something so fun about piers. I wish I lived close to one so I could watch the sunset from them and ride their Ferris Wheels all night long. From the fresh seafood restaurants to the men fishing and drawing caricatures, they are a crowd favorite. Santa Monica is the all time best in my opinion. The only thing that would make it better would be fireworks :)



We tried to go whale watching the night before we left, but we only made it 20 minutes out before the fog made us go back to the port. We smooth talked our way onto the next boat in the morning. While I didn't see any whales the size of school buses or sharks (shark week starts August 5th!), we did see PLENTY of dolphins, which apparently are a type of whale. They really should advertise that on their whale guarantee. It was really fun to go out on the ocean and use all of my oceanography knowledge, or the lack there of, I mean it was freshman year after all.

R A C H E L ' S G A R D E N P A R T Y

^^ On each plate was a "He said / She said" game, and a goody bag stuffed with lemon cookies.

^^ We did find time to pin the mustache on Rachel's groom Kyler.

^^ Chantelle made these perfect looking, and even better tasting 

strawberry whip cream cupcakes.