love story.

Danny & Annie from StoryCorps on Vimeo.

For my birthday...(one month from today)

I bought myself a present:



Don't let me buy anything else.







have i mentioned i love being rich and single?

Hey, you've got some road trip in your hair.

Freak dude. Freak. Dude.

I've tried to describe this short little trip to people and I just keep stammering, "It was so..amazing...holy...you wouldn't believe..I can't even...ugh, you just should have been there."

You should have been there. But it wouldn't have been the same. And the bug was already full.

These are my cousins Whitney and McKay, we were childhood friends every summer when our family would make the trek to Utah. Alison and I loved having sleepovers with these crazy girls and they'd teach us the funniest games and we'd shoot BB guns and play in the ditch behind their house.

And then we grew up. AND I MOVED TO UTAH!! Now I get to be their REAL friend ALL the time, not just summer-cousin-friends. And I love it.

McKay described our trip as "soul settling." I couldn't agree more.
There is something about being with girls, driving, singing along with Bieber and GaGa at the top of our lungs, the wind tangling our hair into an unbrushable mess-


Cafe Diablo, 5 star restaurant in Torrey, UT. Get the rattlesnake, it's devine.
Mayan Tamales, and a cactus thing.
Oh yeah, and for dessert, get The Bomb.

Then we laughed and laughed, they must have put something in our food.

Then Whitney almost barfed up a hundred dollar meal.

Then Whitney made me laugh so hard I almost barfed up a hundred dollar meal.

Then we stole a group camp site and lay right between the fire pit and the picnic table so we could see every star in the sky. And what a sky it was. We caught the tail end of an August Meteor shower in one of the least light-polluted skies in the country.

Then we laughed some more.

Then we slept.

Day 2

We saw some real estate. And some of this:







Then we ate fresh fruit pies and scones at a little country homestead.


Now comes the cool part.

GOBLINS!!!



Goblin Valley State Park

We went crazy:


(sorry McKay, I stole this from your blog...obviously)


So there you have it. Cafe Diablo, done. Capital Reef National Park, done. House hunting in Torrey, done. Goblin Valley, done. Don't lose my sunglasses out the window, done.

I haven't had that much fun in a LONG time, thanks so much you guys.

oh my baby

Second time this has happened...

Luckily it was just the battery. And luckily it happened on my day off and not on my way to work at 4:30am...

Thanks to Kyle for rescuing me and attempting to jump it.
Thanks to the tow man and Goodyear for giving me back my car and my freedom, which is worth way more than $197.93

Fire Works.

Empire State of Mind.

Wed- train/subway to Sara's apartment, a 5th floor walk up...
Tom's Restaurant for dinner (Seinfeld)
Walked EVERYWHERE: Riverside park, 72nd street pier, Times Square, Temple, etc.
Caught up with my dear friend Sara, we haven't seen each other for a few years.
I just really like her
p.s. fireflies are the coolest thing ever.

Thurs- Sara had to work so I went to the TEMPLE! Such a sweet experience. Loved it.
Sat outside in the perfect weather until I met Sara for lunch
Ate lunch at the coolest Alice in Wonderland themed restaurant
Shopped in SoHo
Went to a yoga class, sometimes I forget how much I love yoga. I love yoga.
Bought falafel and ate it at High Line Park, an old elevated railroad that overlooks the
city

Fri- Went to ECLIPSE!!! AAAGGHHH!!! squeeeeeeeeeel!!! jk. It was ok. The best part was
Sara's roommate's sarcastic comments, she was so funny
Ate lunch at Columbus Circle
Went to Washington Square to do beat poetry...didn't really work out but still fun
More walking, people, friends

Sat-LONG BEACH!!! ALL DAY!! SUNBURNED!! So perfect
No really, they have beaches in NY and they are great. I didn't believe it either but it's true
NY pizza for dinner + Tom's chocolate shakes for dessert=stomach hurts

Sun- took a cab to church, duh. The driver said we were so beautiful we could pay him whatever
we wanted. I gave him a tip.
Church on the 3rd floor of the Temple building, cool.
Lunch with Sara's roommies
Mega Naps
FIREWORKS=
Honestly once in a lifetime thing- Most people go and sit on the highway to watch fireworks in the heat and humidity, but not us. Sara has a friend who lives on the 42 floor of an apartment building overlooking the Hudson, we basically had front-row, air-conditioned seats.

Mon- FIRE ISLAND. I am in love.
No cars, streets, honking, etc.
Just beach. (and a few jellyfish stings and angry crab pinches...)
I just really loved it. So much.
Can I quit my job and live there in a cute little wrap-around porch house?

LAST NIGHT IN NY- MORE PIZZA

Tues-up at 3:30am for the shuttle to JFK. I really did not want to get on that plane.
But then a really attractive
retired pro skier-turned-accountant
from Park City sat next to me on the plane...

it was an ok flight :)

Just the beat of my own heart.

NY, NY July 2010

One of the best trips of my life. Details to come.


p.s. I looked in to getting my MLS license in the state of NY today...they have their own licensing test and it's the only state more strict than CA about laboratory requirements... Grrrr.