Emma's Fantabulous Blog

I’m back from Iceland! It was great! I’m sore from lots of strenuous activities, as well as sun and wind burnt, and I’m still massively under slept. But I had a really amazing time. My 2 favorite activities were hiking into snowy mountains to find a hot springs that we then bathed in (this tour), and riding Icelandic  horses though a beautiful area (with this company).

Some of my favorite photos:

Check out my entire gallery of photos here.

I went with Devon and my friends Kate, Dan and David. We did lots of stuff… Which normally I would sum up, but Devon already did a great job at it on his blog… Check out:

What we did – Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.   Also see his impressions of Iceland, Impressions of our hotel and his photos.

I had a great time and I recommend the trip for anyone who would like a more active vacation, and doesn’t mind being cold all of the time. I certainly would like to return to soak in the Blue Lagoon some more.

I finally finished uploading pics from My brother & I’s back packing adventure. Final 2 cities: Bologna & Rome.  Check out the galleries here:

Bologna: We braved hiking up terrifying ancient towers and surly men at the train station to eat some the most amazing Italian food we’d had in our lives & to see some beautiful art work in a practically “untouched by tourism” city.

Rome: Seeing all of the ancient ruins of Rome, that I had read about all through high school was priceless, and something I never would have really “got”, without actually seeing it all for myself. The food was mediocre, but the historic value & shit-shops were all A+++. 

So this completes all of my travel photos from My European backpacking adventure. To view all of the pictures, check them all out here. 

So with the whole being sick thing I’ve had alot of downtime & I’ve uploaded & labeled my pics from Amsterdam & Switzerland, as well as our wonderful hostess’s pics from Switzerland.

My favorite part of Amsterdam was the Anne Frank house. I was in tears and sobbing by the time we finished walking through the museum.  My least favorite part about Amsterdam was the plethora of bike paths and the utter lack of walking paths.  As for Switzerland: I think that this country might be the most beautiful place on earth.

My pictures from Amsterdam:

My pictures from Switzerland:

Nina’s Pictures in Switzerland:

As always, click on the big pics to bring you to each album. Also, sign in to Gallery once you go there (or create an account easily), if you want to comment on the pictures.

Alright, this has to be quick as I’m running out the door to work, and i have about 8 million things on my plate. Gawd, I miss being a little frau-line.

Album: Cote d’Azure & Monaco w/ D & the fam.

Album: Barcelona w/ my brother.

Album: Paris & Bruxelles w/ my brother (and the lemur of course).

I’ll try to post more when I have more time on my hands… Next thursday when I’m off again, maybe?

I just found some photos that my friend Andrew took when I worked at the NU bookstore, back in 2001-2002. I look like I’m about 12, and I’m amused that my hair is totally different in both pics. Also, I’m clearly not slacking at my job as a customer service employee…Futzing with a camera and munching on some PB m&m’s. Gawd, I loved working there.

In honor of my parent’s 35th wedding anniversary, we had a family photo shoot, thanks to Devon. The photo subjects ranged from just my parents to group photos with Seth, Devon and myself.

I think that the following photo is my favorite shot from the whole shoot…. Seth and I are such wise-asses and my parents look totally unamused. Good times.

As I mentioned beforehand, Devon and I went to Las Vegas last week for a belated 2nd anniversary trip.

My favorite pic from our trip:

Devon wrote a really nice write-up about our adventures in a blog entry (entitled Snakes in the Desert). So I won’t repeat the same basic spiel that he did. But I’ll give a quick recap.

Some fun, delicious and beautifully decorated places we ate at were: Wolfgang Puck’s Trattoria del Lupo, RM bar, SeaBlue, Tao, Shanghai Lilly.

Some fun stuff we did was: Saw some cute sea critters at the Shark Reef, rented a Dodge Viper & drove out to the Hoover Dam (a random aside: I love the landscapes in the SW. I always feel so happy and serene there.), relaxed at THE bathhouse at our hotel (which I recommend as an absolute must to anyone who gets the chance, seriously, OMG, it was awesome.), saw Crazy Horse (awesome), saw Zumanity (I enjoyed it, Devon thought it was just ok.), and lost $15 on slots in an incredibly short amount of time.

Check out all my photos here!

This year for Thanksgiving, our friends Russell and Jenny kindly invited us to have Thanksgiving dinner with them. They provided an amazing spread of traditional turkey day goodies and we brought over a homemade pumpkin pie and supplies to try out my henna skills on Jenny. (She’s incredibly brave!)

The next day I still had a bunch of goo left and decided to try out some new ideas and doodle on my hands again. This was the result. Not super amazing, but it was fun to try some new patterns.

And then Devon decided to be brave and let me doodle on him!!! I tried my best at making an Apple computer power button on the back of his neck. I drew one almost perfectly, but unfortunately the back of your neck is a location that’s really hard to keep from smudging. So it didn’t end up staining well… But the initially it looked really rad.

We had a great Saturday at Fifi’s Halloween costume contest. Unfortunately they (the store running the contest) seemed unwilling to let a reptile win the contest, as the awards were cat and dog focused. We did get a $10 gift certificate to PetCo, but we didn’t place, or even win honorable Mention. In short. We were totally robbed.

However, Fifi totally rocked her “dog”costume. Especially amusing was the fact that a dog showed up wearing a lizard costume.

1st place went to a pirate team consisting of a little dog and a little boy. (They ALWAYS award the little kids! So unfair!)

2nd place went to a dachshund (i think) dressed as a Red Hat Society Lady. His/her costume was completely hand sewn and beaded/sequined by it’s owner. Including it’s feathered hat. The dachshund totally deserved to win.

3rd place went to a little dog team dressed as Men in Black. Talk about dressing up as totally behind the times characters. *yawn*. Fifi totally deserved at least 3rd place.

Devon took lots of pictures. Check them all out. I think my favorite “cute” costume was the squishy pug dressed as bumble bee.

D and I went to a Halloween costume party on Saturday. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a real costume party, let alone one with a date, so I knew that I had to take advantage of that and do a duet type costume… And something where the guy would have to wear something pretty non-costumey, because Devon isn’t really a costume kind of guy.

I had an certain image in my mind and the results ended up being frighteningly on point. The looks:

Mine (“It’s britney, b@tch):

Devon’s:

Check out all my pics from that night, as well as our friend James’ costume. He was working security for the party and came dressed as a Blackwater Operative. It was awesome. And you can read Devon’s blog post on the party here.