Highlights of Winter Semester...

Lacrosse season comes to an end.Skate Your Heart Out for Lacrosse! our annual fundraiser.
Flowers from my mom on Valentines
The Team
Peace tats (not real ones;) )
Best Friends!
My Cell Phone... yes I am still using it!

FINALS ARE OVER!!!

Yay finals are over and hopefully I will have my life back for a little while. School starts back up with the spring term on Wednesday so I don't get much of a break so I will be sure to milk it for all its worth!

Etsy Shop!

Ok so I have decided to finally open up an etsy shop, it should be opening in about two weeks. I am really excited about it so check back soon and I will have the link for it!

Soel Friends and Family day!

Hey Soel's Friends and Family day is on Saturday the 22nd so if you are my friend or in my family let me know if you want to come you will get 20% off your entire purchase. Let me know and I will give you the card so you can get the discount!

CRAZY LIFE!

Ok so my life has been a bit crazy lately with work, school and lacrosse, but here is a quick update. Lacrosse season is in full swing we have had four games so far and we have one on the 28th in San Diego. Our team is off to a slow start but as it is a really new team I think that we will definitely finish the season stronger than we started. I got a concussion last week and both my shoulders are tweaked a bit but that is the glory of lacrosse season! I am loving my job, you all should come into the store it is awesome and we just got a lot of cute new spring stuff I work on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12-3:30 so come drop in! School is crazy right now with lots of papers and tests but I am pulling through. Anyway that is the update for now, I will try to keep current with updates!

Winter Sale and Soel

Soel is having a sale on Saturday, January 26th Everything in the store will be anywhere from 10-50% off. Come check it out!

I got a Job!

I just got a job at Soel Boutique in Riverwoods mall in Orem, and I am so excited. Besides being my favorite store, I get to go to all the yoga classes I want, and I now I can get a discount on all the clothing I buy there, which is not a small amount!

I Am Home!

So after four and a half months in Europe (and over 20 hours in airports) I am finally home! I was so excited when I got to Chicago I got a bagel and I didn't have to double the price to know how much i was really spending. It is great to be home and I am looking forward to seeing everyone. It is a bit strange I feel like I never left that I just woke up from a very good dream. If you want to contact me my cell number is the same and if you don't have it feel free to leave a comment and I will e-mail it to you!

Wicked: Front Row!

OK so you can all be jealous! yesterday I saw Wicked from the front row and it was so spectacular I can't stop thinking about it. We went to theater at about 8:00am in the rain and waited until 10:00am when the box office opened there were people in front of us who had slept at the theater, but we were able to get the last 7 tickets on the front row of the matinee, and bonus the tickets were only 25 pounds.

Turkey Bowl

So blogger is working again in London! yay but yeah I don't have time to update you all on all that I have done since the middle of October but yeah I will just start up again and show you all the pictures from November when I get home. Anyway so Thanksgiving was awsome! we had a powderpuff game and a Turkey bowl and it was a blast. It was really muddy because it had poured the night before so that made it even more spectacular! but here are a few pictures from the game!

Ireland

We had a period of time this weekend for some free travel me and five other girls decided to go to Ireland, Dublin to be precise, we had an amazing time. We went to Dublin Castle, Trinity College, St. Patrick's Cathedral, and went to a dinner show that included Irish dancing and song. The next morning we woke up early and went to the coast to a town called Howth it was beautiful, we just walked around for a while down the piers and through the town and then we headed back to the Dublin Airport and back to London. Everything went really smoothly and overall it was a great trip.

Wales

Well we took a two day trip to Wales a week ago and I loved it and everything on the way there and back. Herfordshire Beacon (an old roman earthen fort) was amazing and so beautiful, the green of the hill was amaizing and I don't think that the pictures do it justice. we went to titurn abbey and we actually got to go down into an old coal mine called the big pit it was so fun I loved it!

What I have been up to since I got to London

I bet alot of you are wondering what happened to me, the answer is London happened! there is so much stuff to do here that I have had no time to update my blog. Anyway I will give you all a brief overview of what it is i have been doing. I have been going to alot of shows I went to Wicked the second night I got here, I have also been to The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miz, Mary Poppins, Billy Elliot, and on a random whim I went to Lord of the Rings the musical and was very pleasantly suprised! and I am going to Sound of Music tonight with my mom and dad who are in town. I also have tickets to the St. Petersburg Ballet's production of Swan Lake in November so I am looking forward to that. I have also been to many museums including the National Gallery, the British Museum, the Courtauld Gallery, and the Victoria and Albert. Every Wednesday as a group we all go somewhere outside of London we have gone to Blenheim Palace, The Cotswolds, this past week we actually took a two day trip to Wales. We have been to many old abbey's including titurn Abbey, Fountains Abbey, and Battle Abbey (sight of the Hastings in 1066). The second week we were here we went on a trip for 4 nights to northern England including the lake and peak districts. As you can see I have been a very busy girl and I am loving every second of it! I am heading to Ireland on Thursday for alittle free travel and I will make that the next thing I blog about hope you enjoyed hearing what I have been upto if you want to know more details just e-mail me!

England North Trip

Europe travels: Berlin and Paris

So we took an early morning train to Berlin and zoomed around all day and saw alot of sights but one day was definatly not enough to be satisfyed, there were lots of things that I wanted to see that we didn't get to but I guess that they will just have to wait for some later time in my life! We were able to see alot of things for the limited time we were there, my favorate was either the Brandenberg Gate or the memorial to the murdered jews of europe, it was all really spectacular and like I said we just didn't have time to see it all. That evening we hopped on an overnight train to Paris, the train was supposed to take 13 hrs and ended up taking about 16 hrs oh well we got there and hopped on the RER to Bussy St. George and when we got off the train my cute mom was walking towards us and when she realized that it was me she started screaming and running towards us it was great I got a wonderful hug and it was amaizing to see her (first time in about 3 months) so we went to my parents apartment got showered and then went to the grocery store (they are amaizing in France!) and picked out a buch of good things to eat. we then went back and ate raclette and then went into paris and saw the sights my night, we saw the Eiffel tower and it was sparkeling (it sparkels every hour on the hour) and then we drove down the Chams-Elysees, saw the Arc de Triomphe, and Montmartre. It was Great, I love seeing sights at night there is just something about seeing them all lit up! Our total time we spent in France was 5 days, in that time we saw many wonderful things and went many woderful places. We visited Giverny (Monet's gardens) Rouen where we went to a wonderful concert in one of their larger cathedrals. We went to the Normandy beaches and memorial, we went to Caen and saw the castle there It was all a wonderful experiance and it was wonderful just to hang out with my parents! on the 4th we left early in the morning and hopped on the chunnel to London.

More Pictures From Prague

Europe Travels: Austria, London, Czech Rep.

So We arrived in Salsburg pretty late and made our way to the hostel and went to bed, I woke up early and caught a bus to the Salsburg airport and I was off to London For my friend Ashley's wedding. The wedding was amazing and Ashley looked beautiful! after the wedding I went and saw the sights of London by night and they were beautiful. The next day I went to Portabello road and didn't even make it through half of the market before I had to leave for the airport. I almost didn't make my plane because security was so backed up, but after sprinting, and getting quite a good work out, I made it to my gate they were able to re-open the door and I was on my way back to Salsburg. The next morning we were off to Vienna, it was beautiful we went to a great art museum and went to a mixed concert that night (opera, ballet, and the Imperial Orchestra Wein)and then took a night time stroll and saw the sights then went back to our hostel. We had another early morning, we hopped on the 6:00 train to Prague. We got to Prague and started looking for our hostel and we were not in the best area so we decided to try another hostel. so we finally got settled into a better part of town and we walked up to Prague Castle and grabbed some Mexican food (it was soo good!) and went back to our hostel a little earlier than usual talked for a bit and went to bed. We woke up the next morning and saw most of the other sights in Prague climbed their hill/ mountain that had beautiful garden at the top of it and had a lovely relaxing day just walking around the city. We stayed at the hostel again that night retiring early again, and prepared for another early morning of travel to Berlin.

Europe Travels: Switzerland

So after leaving the Cinque Terre, we were off to Switzerland. The train ride from Italy to Switzerland was quite a long one so we arrived in Lucerne at about 5:00 in the evening we made our way to our hostel (the first one we stayed in) got settled in, it actually was quite nice, and headed out to find some food. We went to a small local restaurant that was recommended to us by the guy at the front desk of our hostel and it was great. we then headed back to the hostel and went to bed. We woke up the next morning to a French lady talking really loudly to herself, yeah I am pretty sure she was crazy because this continued until we left. We made our way to the train station, and deposited our bags in the train station and went out to see what there was to see. It was a beautiful day, we walked around saw the sights went to the Picasso museum, and then took a paddle boat out on the river and it was amazing we then headed back to the train station and got on the train headed to Interlocken.

When we arrived in Interlocken we got on another train to Lauterbrunnen and once we arrived in lauterbrunnen we caught a bus to a cable car station and caught a cable car (like the Tram at Snowbird) to Gimmelwald. The view was amazing! wow so we hiked around a bit and then went and got some yummy fondue, and then went and slept in a barn for the night, (the lady rents out her barn to visitors we didn't just randomly sleep in some barn) anyway the next morning we ate the breakfast that was included in the whole barn stay package and then we took some pictures and went back to Lauterbrunnen and rented mountain bikes, took another cable car up to a place called Gritchalp and rode down through Murren and Gimmelwald and then all the way down back to Lauterbrunnen, it was the most scenic bike ride I have ever been on! Any way after that we hopped on a train and headed towards Salsburg.

Euope Travels: Italy

Well I have made it back to London after tromping around Europe for nearly 20 days!!! We started out by flying into London and dropping off our big bags and then flying the next day to Milan and leaving Milan that evening for Sienna. We spent the next day in Sienna, and I absolutly loved it, that evening we took a train to Piza. We woke up the next morning and tryed to find church and the bus driver let us out at a Catholic chruch in the middle of nowhere so that didn't work out too well, we then walked to the leaning tower and all that, grabbed some lunch ( I had a yummy Caprese sandwitch) and headed back to the train station where we started on our way towards the Cinqe Terre. We stayed in the Cinque Terre (In Corniglia, for those of you that have been there it is the one with all the red brick stairs up to it!) for two nights and loved every second of it. We Hiked all five cities and swam at the last one we also ate loads of Gilato, my favorate combo was Cinnamon, Yogurt, Mandarino wow I have craved that eversince! Overall we loved italy and loved the food just as much!

I am off!!!!

Well I am off to London/ Europe! I don't know how much internet I will have access to in the next two weeks but look for lots of new posts after that! Ta ta!