Prince Edward Island

I belong to a traveling group. We call ourselves the Little Truckers. For our third "annual trip to somewhere" we chose Nova Scotia, home to Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton, and Halifax (which includes the burial grounds of the Titanic). This picture shows all of the Little Truckers in front of Lucy Maud Montgomery's very own Green Gables home. It was everything I imagined and though Anne Shirley is a character from a novel even Lucy felt she was betraying Anne if she concluded that she was "just a character."

Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

It reminded me of my time in Ireland. It was beautiful. God makes some very beautiful places, this tops the list.

Enter Autumn

I'm just happy today. The weather is changing. It's sunny but not too sunny. It's breezy but not too breezy. It's cool but not too cool. Autumn is almost here and it just makes me smile, even while being stuck in the post office for forty-five minutes trying to get my money back when it took 21 days for a letter that was certified and priority to get to Virginia. Apparently there is no guarantee...so no money back for me, but that didn't stop my happiness mood. My boyfriend is awesome but not too awesome where you are disgusted with yourself for not being that awesome. My family is great. Vacation starts tomorrow. Can it get any better?

Enter freshed picked apples. Enter high school football. Enter sweaters and layers. Enter fallen leaves.

ENTER AUTUMN!

(the picture was taken upstate new york with my friends Courtney & Melanie. At Melanie's cabin at Loon Lake)

San Francisco

So Jim and I went to San Francisco. He went for business. I went for an alternative motive. Shopping. Thursday I basically shopped until I dropped and as I was in line a woman said to me "I shouldn't be here buying these things, what is my husband going to say?" I told her to keep them in the trunk for a while, then she informed me that she took the bus that day. I was saddened for her wrath that her husband may show to her making her take the cute items she clung to in line back. We worked out a solution. She would stop off at her friends house and leave it there for a couple of weeks. I think it should work for her...

Jim and I ate at an amazing chinese restaurant called Betelnut. It was local favorite apparently as we were mistaken for locals. Two people throughout the day at Jim's work told him to order the green beans. Interesting. I have nothing against green beans and have been picking them a lot lately at my own home, but seriously of all the items on the menu to be told to get those. Well folks, they were EXTREMELY delicious! Sezuchan green beans. I could drink the sauce as I've told many of you. The calamari was amazing as well. I then took Jim the chocolate lover, to Ghiradelli square where we had ourselves a chocolate shake and "The Domingo."

The next day we headed to Fisherman's wharf or as Jim mistakenly calls it Fisherman's Dwarf. No seriously. He didn't know he was pronouncing it wrong. So cute. We fell in love with the clam chowder (and it was as good as last time I had it 12 years ago with Aup & Ann) and the sea lions.

We then headed up to Lombard street and when I say headed up...I don't mean we took a trolley or cable car...no we walked my friends up a freakin' mountain of cement while cable car passengers waved on by. BUT it was worth it. The view was amazing and we looked at houses on our way back down.

All in all a fantastic vacation!

Simple Little Pleasures

"I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, flowing one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string." Anne Shirley


Tuesday, August 12, 2008

9am-wake up
10am-pick blueberries out my backdoor in my pajamas
11am-flip through a cookbook and decide what to make Jim for dinner
12am-go hottubbing while reading Anne of Green Gables
1pm-read outside
2pm-go to the garden and pick potatoes for dinner along with onions and green beans
3pm-go to local farmers market and get rest of ingredients, mint, cilantro, and parsley
4pm-cook dinner for Jim
6pm-Jim arrives, we eat dinner
7pm-watch Olympics together and eat popcorn
11pm-anticipate vacations to come