Europe part 2

our second day was spent traversing the city of Lausanne.

  from Old Town to the shores of Lake Geneva- it was spectacular. 

if you look real close at the picture of Kevan standing in the chapel doorway,

you'll see the "official" chapel door holder... and by "official" i mean beggar.

it took forever for me to get a picture without him standing in the background,

smiling and waving at me...

we realized after we got back that this was the only picture of the 4 of us... 

lookin' sexy as he washes his sins away... hopefully he didn't bring home typhoid

The next morning we headed around the lake...

through the country side:

and up into the Alps:

let's see how long it takes part 3 to be posted ;)

a day in the life.

today was a big day for me.

i had an interview for a job that would give me decent pay,

but would also afford for me to concentrate on my education-

making sure i could pay the bills as well as get A's.

so in true Tricia fashion- i had a ridiculous stomachache all morning

and arrived at the interview 35 minutes early... yeah... who does that?

about 15 minutes before, i went in and found... a dark, empty room.

panicked... i checked my email to see WTF was up and that's when i saw it:

the dude i had talked to had given me the wrong day- 

my interview is Wednesday... not today. 

at least i didn't miss it, right??

needless to say, i slinked outta there as fast as i could.

(didn't want anyone to see me wearing the same outfit i'll be wearing in 2 days...)

so, i decided to be productive today; took a walk with my favorite 4 legged girl

came home, tuned into the Edith Piaf pandora station and cleaned the kitchen, 

browned off veggies and beef then threw it all in the crock pot

 roast is now roasting. the smells coming from there are unbelievably comforting 

my favorite picture of grandma Lucille. after she passed, one of my aunts took a bunch

of her aprons and made those little angels for all of the women in my family.

such a treasure to have her with me in my kitchen in spirit :)

isn't she just the frickin' cutest thing you've ever seen in your whole life??

 yummy tea for the boyfriend and me

now it's time to paint the bookcases in the living room 

then study... study... study.

if anyone out there has a strong affinity for accounting,

please let me know.

you can take my class for me.

seriously...

i can't erase this off my DVR.

i'm not sure why, but i feel such a strong connection to this performance. 

the words, the voices, the fact that it's a group of women.

something about this makes me cry every time i watch it... and i've watched it far too much.

maybe i'm just a crazy biz-nasty and i feel bad for the boyfriend

for the freak-nasty that he's stuck with foooor-eeev-er.

maybe it's just that it's muah's time of the month and i feel

 like he should be doing more around the house and that's why i'm crying...

either way, i just can't get enough of this performance.

brav-ah Delilah!

wanna sing at my birthday party??

eh?

no?

whatever... i hate you bitches...

jk

XOXO

gossip girl

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need to try.

love this. really should try... with all of our cable boxes...

europe part 1: finally!

we left from MSP on Friday Sept 2nd, landing in Amsterdam at 5:30ish their time.

the flight really wasn't that bad, considering we were on a more updated plane

and each seat had their own TV screen on the headrest in front of them.

i watched Midnight in Paris, Limitless, and Something Borrowed

which completely made the 8+ hour flight fly by... get it?? fly by?? yeeeah...

we had a 3 hour layover in Amsterdam before leaving to Geneva, Switzerland

so we hung out at this cool restaurant in the airport that i wish i had gotten a picture of.

naturally we ordered beers, wine, and a spicy bloody mary

by this time i think that we were all a little tired... doesn't he make tired look super sexxxy??

once in Geneva, we hopped on the train that would take us around the lake to Lausanne

after everyone (except my dad of course) was well rested from our 4 hour naps

we headed to the cafe across the street from our hotel

the pick thin woman stretching behind kevan and my mom was our waitress

...who we never saw. it's actually amazing she ended up in this picture.

sidenote: a never noticed how much my mom and kevan look alike until this picture...

i guess instead of marrying my father, i'm marrying dating my mother.

they're personalities are even creepily similar... wow.

we walked around Lausanne for a while that night, finally ending at

wait for it...

Le Chinese Dynasty.

yep. traveled for 15 hours to eat at a Chinese restaurant.

it was raining and we just ran in to get out of the storm, but it was like fate.

it was on the second story, so we had a perfect view of the town, Lake Geneva, and the Alps

(you can see to the left of my dad in the above picture)

and the food was out of this world.

i had beef curry that i'm still drooling/dreaming about

and kevan had some duck thing that was crazy good.

That's it for day 1!

time to go take my take home accounting test---blargf--- wish me luck!

and so it goes

our time in Europe was amazing.

will never be forgotten and if it were up to me, 

we would have never left.

but alas... we've been home for a week,

greeted by our loving kids (puck and winnie),

a pile of laundry,

tons of homework- including 2 tests for me... eek!

and the realization that everyday life has begun again.

now if you don't mind, i'm going to pretend that i am back here,

about to have an aperitif and beautiful conversation with my honey:

i promise more to come... much more. Tomorrow?

just a tid bit.

i've been up since 3:30am and it's now 1am Paris time, which is what i'm on... so i'm pooped

first stop was Lausanne then off Wengen.

then Basel and a day stop in Offenburg

Strasbourg and finally Paris.

It was the trip of a lifetime and still feels like a dream.

It's a strange juxtaposition to be back.

on one hand, it's nice to have the comforts of home, but I miss

Europe... more than i thought i would. 

it was an amazing adventure that i hope to relive again and again.

au revoir for now!