I can’t believe Dan and I have already been home a month since our vacation to Colorado and Utah. We managed to do so much in just a week, road-tripping from Denver to Salt Lake City and back. I loved exploring Pearl Street and visiting the Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum. But our most… [Read More]
Golden Travels: Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum
I’m finally writing more about our Labor Day vacation to Colorado and to Utah! On Labor Day itself, Dan and I headed to Golden, Colorado, which is just outside of Denver. We had been there previously, back in December 2012 when we spent Christmas in Colorado. On that trip, we toured the Coors Brewery, which… [Read More]
Remembering Summer 2014
I can’t believe today’s the last day of summer! While some bloggers have excitedly prepared for fall since August, I’ve been mourning the end of summer. In Ohio, summer is the one season that actually follows the calendar year. It starts to feel like summer in the middle-to-end of June, and it stays pretty summer-ish… [Read More]
Denver Travels: Exploring Pearl Street
The best part of visiting Denver so often is the freedom to explore new neighborhoods and not just stick to a tourist itinerary of museums (although I love that too!). Our first day in Denver, Dan and I met up with my best friend McPhee at a cute little hipster coffee shop, Steam Espresso on… [Read More]
Labor Day Vacation Recap: Denver, Salt Lake City, & More
If you follow me on Twitter, then you know that Dan and I were on vacation last week. It’s amazing how much we managed to do in just a week! Dan took about a million pictures, many of them specifically for my blog, because he is a wonderful husband. Over the next few weeks, I… [Read More]
Niort Living: Learning to Love an Ugly Apartment
For the 2010-2011 school year, I worked as an English Teaching Assistant assistant d’anglais in Niort, France as part of TAPIF (Teaching Abroad Program in France). I primarily worked at the Lycée Jean Macé, which also provided an apartment for me and the Spanish Teaching Assistant, Mary Cruz. We were pretty lucky that our high… [Read More]