4 weeks, 5 cities, 1 journal conference, 1 birthday bash, 1 family reunion, 1 work retreat, 1 business trip to San Francisco... life is absurd! Thoughts from along the way:
The highlight of trip #1 (to NY for a journal conference) was my new favorite musical, In the Heights. I adored it! Combine Broadway with Latin-pop music with some rap and I'm in love. Anyone who gets a chance should see it! The low point of trip #1 was our hotel - The Broadway Plaza Hotel on 27th and Broadway. Not the nicest area a girl could hope for, but I fared better than the journal's faculty editor - his wife took one look at the place and he was in the doghouse for 36 hours until he managed to find them another place to stay.
The birthday bash was a whirlwind. Tons of people in town, (Thanks for coming Lynn, Lauren, Courtney, Hannah, Shane, Paige +2!) the best gifts in the whole world (Sex & the City series on DVD plus Emily's movie on being a divorce attorney), lots of alcohol, and lots of Paige & Bagel drunken photos. We decided we needed a picture for every stage of the drunkeness. You can see how well that worked out below...
Paige, her husband Trevor, and her bro-in-law Dustin at Gino's East for deep dish
Hannah and Shane-O
The original BFFs
Who can't spell Megan? Jeesh!
The start of our brilliant "stages" plan. Notice the semi-sober eyes.
Paco fills me with great passion too!
Stage 4 - commence the silliness.
Stage 7? Things start to get out of control.
Stage Who-Knew-I-Had-So-Many-Fingers
Yay! Lauren!
Pre-birthday festivities
Rooms!
There are tons of pix from the "Invasion of the Yahoos" (Courtney, Hannah, and Shane stayed later than everyone else), but somebody, ahem Courtney!, is a bad sharer.
2 comments:
Ditto. Tacos needs to pass around the birthday pictures
haha. cute!!
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