I will be going home November 15 for a good 2 weeks and I am SOOO excited already I cannot wait I am counting down the days already!! It will be super; clubbing, shopping, the city life my house, my family and friends I cannot wait!! Mara and Alex MAKE plans to come visit me immediately!!!!

This Friday, was the first Friday ever that we had off because the team went to NYC to cook for the James Beard House; which left Casey and me with nothing to do on a Friday night! In the morning we started by going for some lunch in Panera followed by some small shopping in Target and then we eventually made our way to the cinema to watch "The ( Read more... )

Everyone says their first time is the most memorable and unforgetable experience they have ever been through; I would just like to add unimaginable, flawless, and absolutely perfect! Tonight, my family and I celebrated mum's birthday in Lautrec and as my first time, it truly was all of those things.

I was very nervous and anxious for the evening to ( Read more... )

My family finally arrived state-side last night and after a very long wait, I finally welcomed them this afternoon! We took a nice quick tour of Nemacolin; they were fascinated by all the artwork and decor; by Lautrec (I know they can't wait to eat there)! Then we headed down to Uniontown to check into the Holiday Inn where we got our rooms and ( Read more... )

Well this weekend has already zoomed by, I can't believe that I have to work at 17:00 in Autumn tonight, I am really not looking forward to that but everyone has to do that at least once so I am claiming my once tonight ( Read more... )

I just found my new favourite song by Natasha Bedingfield- Happy (taken from the Bridewars Soundtrack); it is sooo cute and exactly what my new mission is about ( Read more... )

This evening Casey and Brady invited me along with Casey's cousin Jenny for a test dinner; as Brady will be cooking for Casey's professor in a couple of weeks. It started perfect; a garden dinner as we had lovely weather; nice candles and flowers.

The first course was a corn soup with charred onions. Very tasty, it tasted almost like a seafood ( Read more... )

It was the most beautiful weather yesterday; gorgeous sunshine but it was not excruciatingly hot so Kevi and I decided to make the most of the day and take a long walk around Nemacolin! Since we have not posted photos recently we thought this was the perfect day for it!!!

Starting from our very own forest in Mystic Meadows...


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It happens to be that when I log on to facebook properly and check out everyone's photos; life seems to fly at various intervals; mine being the slowest and most behind. I looked up people from my high school and WOW three quarters of them are in relationships; half are married; and a small but growing percentage is on their way to having babies ( Read more... )

So I skipped an inspirational quote for today because I had to wake up super early for my shift with the wedding planner today and it was AWESOME!! I reflected on the quote from yesterday actually from Van Gogh. I pushed myself today with the wedding planners; I asked so many questions, I showed them that I really want to do this and that it is ( Read more... )