I'm stuck in San Francisco with useless suitcases filled with shorts, swimsuits and sundresses, my Cancun vacation now just something to be sorted out with Expedia in a desperate attempt to get them to honor the travel insurance we bought and give us a refund.
I've slept four hours in the last 36 only because the airport hotel rushed to get us a ( Read more... )

Wow. Well it's been a while since I started posting about this trip but I'm going to continue ( Read more... )

The last weekend of May I went to Las Vegas with Kevin, Dan, Mike, Josh and Zoe. I hadn't been to Vegas since I was 18 and doing a summer program at Stanford and met my mom and grandma there for my birthday. That was a fun weekend, the highlight of which was seeing O, but getting to go again as an adult with some of my best friends was absolutely ( Read more... )

Rollick introduced me to a Christmas card exchange organized by a Chicago writer where the cards you write and receive are not from your actual family but from a family that each participant made up. After I read the description mocking cards that are all about bragging how great your year is, I immediately had an idea for mine but I wasn't sure if it ( Read more... )

The line to go up the Eiffel Tower was super long but we got in the shorter, cheaper version which is billed as walk up two stories and then take the elevator to the top. Turns out they have a really warped sense of what two stories is because calculating the height we actually climbed it's more like 23 stories in any other building. We were pretty ( Read more... )

I'm not normally a huge fan of art museums. I like science and natural history museums a good deal and I also can appreciate straight historical exhibits about particularly interesting time periods or people. But not that much art speaks to me. At the Art Institute of Chicago I basically don't appreciate anything in the modern wing - I'd prefer to ( Read more... )

We spent some time wandering back from Notre Dame, checking out a big park with a bunch of sculptures and then the Luxor Obelisk, though we didn't realize at the time that's what it was. I pointed it out and Kevin was convinced it couldn't possibly be from ancient Egypt because seeing ancient Egyptian stuff in the middle of a park seemed insane. We ( Read more... )

 Jake, Kevin and I got to the Tel Aviv airport with plenty of time (my parents and sister were getting a later flight) and hit the food court since we had to leave before breakfast was available at our hotel. Kevin waited in an excruciatingly long line for coffee and a croissant, longer than it took me to get a fresh-made salmon roll and pot of ( Read more... )

We woke up early the next day and headed to the Baha'i Gardens. They are absolutely stunning with giant flowering trees that litter petals in red, orange and yellow; manicured areas of cacti and other succulents; and hedge rows with fountains that my brother pointed out look very much like a level of Zelda. There are also lots of cool sculptures of ( Read more... )

So I'm home now but I'm still writing up the trip in short entries so this won't be the last one ( Read more... )