Summer Bucket List

Being in London taught me to stop taking advantage of life and to get out and live more. Why waste days doing nothing when there is so much to see and explore outside of the house. I am no longer taking advantage of Long Island and New York City.

I created a summer bucket list to help my live my life to the fullest this summer!

What's on your summer bucket list?
Got any more ideas for me?

BlogLovin' Shmoglovin'

I've sure you've all heard by now that Google Reader will be kaput after June 30th.

This means you'll loose all of the blogs you follow. But lucky for all of us we can easily import our feed to Bloglovin with only the click of a few buttons.

Click on the link below and you can begin transferring over your feed now!

http://www.bloglovin.com/import/reader

Good News!

Guess what everyone! You know how in my last post I was whining about not having a job or money to do anything or gas to go anywhere?

Well no more whining for me! I got a job yesterday! This summer I will be lifeguarding. This will be my first real "summer job". For the past couple of summers I've interned in the city so I skipped all of those fun outdoor summer jobs that most high school and college kids experience.

It'll be nice to spend my last summer before graduation outside and not in an office. What are all y'all summer plans? Any cool summer jobs?

Wineries, Golf, and Sun :)

Hey y'all! I hope everyone had a great Father's Day. I know I did.  

Last week I had a somewhat eventful weekend compared to my the rest of my days since I returned from across the pond.

My days at home have consisted of One Tree Hill and job searching. I don't have any money so I don't even like to go out and waste gas until I get a job. My family thinks I've been a lazy a** and don't understand my method of preserving the few dollars I still have to my name. I've had a bunch of interviews this past week so fingers crossed that something comes my way soon cause I could use some fun adventures. 

Sorry about my tangent, back to the original point of this post. Last weekend my dad did some fun things so I took advantage of this to tag along. My sister had to go out east (for you non Long Islanders, out east means the east end of Long Island and usually the north fork) for her summer camp orientation and the rest of us decided to spend a gorgeous day driving around the beautiful north fork.

We saw a bunch of dream houses and went antiquing in Greenport. Boy wouldn't I love a house out there on the water. I'll just buy one with my next pay check, nbd. We stopped for some clams and wine at Claudio's, a Greenport favorite. After we went to one of the many wineries in the area for some live music and good wine :)

Before we picked my sister back up we stopped at a goat farm to pick up some fresh goat cheese. The farm had an unofficial petting zoo. We made friends with all of the baby goats and a pony. They also let the public watch the goats getting milked. This was no one person sitting on a bucket slowing milking each goat. They had an efficient system going and only need one farmer to milk EIGHT goats at a time! Pretty impressive. I really have no idea why I was so interested in the goat milking...weird, I know.

By then Kiersten's orientation was over and we headed back west to pick up my grandma and get sushi for dinner. 

The next day we lucked out with another beautiful day. We spent Sunday washing all the cars and then headed to the driving range. I knew I didn't golf for a reason. I was not very good at it.

All in all it was a great weekend with great people and a nice break from Netflix and job hunting.

Under Construction

I've decided to totally reconstruct my blog. New look and possibly new name (not too sure about that one).

Since I spent every last penny of mine over in London I am in no position to hire a designer for my new design. I decided to look in house and I am going to use what little photoshop skills I have, and with the help of the Internet, design my own blog. Fingers crossed it all works out.

With that said please bare with me over the next few weeks while my blog is getting a makeover.

Bittersweet

This past week has been filled with change and crazy emotions. On Saturday I returned home from my semester in London. Those were the fastest and best five months of my life. I met amazing people all over Europe and was able to see things I never thought I'd get the chance to see.

The adjustment home has been a little difficult. I miss living in a city and being able to walk or take the tube everywhere. I miss my friends I made and all of our adventures and travels. And of course I miss being legal and going to the bar to grab a pint (or two).

Since I've been home I've been unpacking, catching up with friends and family and reflecting on my time abroad. I've also gotten back on track with my healthy lifestyle and attending my first Weight Watchers meeting since before I left.

I was ecstatic when I weighed in and they told me I only gained 3.8 lbs! That's less than one pound a month! I was expecting the damage control to be a lot worse than that! As cheesy and embarrassing as it is to say, I am proud of myself.

I am missing London tremendously but its nice getting back to reality where I don't eat fish and chips with ale everyday.

A Sister Act

I know its been forever since I've last posted. Shame on me. 

I have so much to tell you all about my journey in London and Europe these past few months. But today I wanted to talk about my sister. 

She left London a few days ago to go back home. When I found out last year she was coming with me I was so upset and angry. London was supposed to be my adventure not our. 

Now that she's been gone a week I could not have imagined my time here without here. We traveled everywhere together. She's was always there when I wanted to see a musical so I didn't have to see it alone. And whenever I just needed someone to grab a bit to eat with and talk to she was right across the street in Regents Park. 

We've grown together as people and as sisters here. This experience would not have been the same without her. Here are some photos from our time across the pond :)

Emily's first night in London

Arriving in Italy!

Gondola ride in Venice

Sometimes we get a little crazy

Let's go Oooouut tonight

Our stepdad came to visit!

Watching Changing of the Guards with Mum!

Tea time on Easter

Ireland with our missing link!
 

G'day mate!

Santorini!

Wine tasting in Santorini

Sometimes we get along

Parent Trap house!

Emily's last week :(

Champagne at Harrods..so posh!

Emily's last night out at our favorite bar

Just got back from a trip to the Salzburg. Get ready for a Sound of Music post soon!