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iphone snippets-mackinac island

August 23, 2012

I barely had a day of rest until I was off again! This time I headed to Mackinac Island with my dad and Mago. We biked around the island (taking many rest and water breaks for Mago), explored the hotel grounds (where most of Somewhere in Time was filmed-one of my all time favorite movies), took a short nap, had a picnic in the park, walked around the downtown, saw the sunset, swam in the pool, watched the stars from the lawn, and….took a near midnight bike ride to try out our vintage bike lights (they work great by the way!). Wow! What a day! I was extremely tired by the end of the day.

The next day we took it easy compared to the previous day. We sat out on the big lawn and enjoyed the beautiful morning, checked out of the hotel, explored the shops and I got my required chocolate covered strawberries. mmm. Then we headed out back on the ferry to the mainland. It was a fun day and a half but I’m also looking forward to taking it easy for the next few days (other than the large number of orders that need to be mailed-it’s a good thing I love what I do). Have you taken any short, but fun, trips lately?

iphone updates-friends

August 16, 2012

I got to hang out with some of my very good friends this past week! They live in Chicago so it’s hard to get together but I had the good fortune of being around while they were around so it worked out perfectly.

We had Mexican food, margaritas, and stopped by the reopened brewery in town. Mostly we just enjoyed catching up, laughing, and taking lots of pictures of things and each other. It’s nice having friends who also enjoy taking pictures (although I think Sarah might be a tab bit better at it-wink). I miss them again already.

Going away party

July 3, 2012

I am safely in Michigan now but I will get to all that later. I first want to tell you about my going away party.

I wasn’t even sure I was going to have a going away party, or rather, hadn’t even thought of it. A few friends of mine asked if I was going to and that’s the first time I had really considered it. I was so preoccupied with Walker leaving and his going away things that it just didn’t occur to me. I’m glad my friends brought it up. I chose a day and let everyone know and I was blown away with how many of my friends and came to wish me goodbye. I don’t think you realize the impact you’ve made in a place until you’re leaving. I was so touched and felt so blessed to have made so many wonderful friends in my time here.

Despite my best efforts I couldn’t quite express to everyone who came how much it meant to me. I found myself mostly flitting about making sure I as least said hello and goodbye. There was a nice trickle of people coming in and going out. This way I could say hello to everyone and I never got too sad since people were leaving a couple at at time and there were still friends there. This was to be the last night I would see most of my friends so there was potential for me to be really sad but I was mostly just really happy to see everyone. I loved seeing so many people I care about in one place.

My friend made a delicious and super fresh peach pie! Yum! We devoured it through the evening. I sure will miss his cooking. Maybe overnight food care packages will be in order? Maybe?

Eventually there was just a small group of us. We dragged the night on just a little bit longer and then the night was over. Good thing I was too exhausted to get all weepy.

Thank you dear friends for making one of my last days in Austin one of the best. I will miss you all so much!