The funniest.

So, Annie may have become the official funniest person in our house.  Conversation between Annie and our New Moon promotional cup this morning en route to school:

Annie: Good morning, Edwahd (how Annie says it). I love you. You're so dreamy.

Cup: (Silent appreciation.)

Baaaahhhston day 1

Okay, I know you all want to know about my latest adventure and Halloween 2009. You did, didn't you??









 This is most of our group that went, except John who was taking the picture. L to R: Jared Bacon, Erin Hill, me, Amy Hamblin, and our new traveling friend Joel. Joel is John's friend from work.

It began with us flying the red-eye. Note: flying the red eye +Emily = crabby. This is our friend John, he can sleep anywhere. Does your neck not hurt just looking at this picture?? And to make matters worse, we had a layover in Detroit at like 5 am.

No worries, Hannah Montana came on the trip again. She just loves to travel. We got to Boston, checked into our awesome, non-ghetto hotel and went straight to the Duck tour.

Joel eating his first lobster roll. Notice I said first. Lobster rolls=worst invention ever. And they're kind of expensive.

Amy, Erin, Joel and John loving the duck tour. Not really. 

This was our tour guide. He thought he was a full on pirate. And wouldn't shut up. And I had to pee (shocker I know) like half way through the 80 minute tour.

This is what John and Amy looked like before the too-long Duck tour. 

This is our new traveling friend Joel posing in front of the duck bus. It was actually a cool idea, a bus thing that can go in the water and on land. But just a little too long. 

Boston is pretty. It makes me miss seasons. Besides summer.

 

Then we went to a park and took funny jumping pictures. Yeah, this was the best one that turned out and we had to do it like 6 times. 

Yeah, this is John acting like a monkey and swinging from the tree. Boston might not invite us back. 

What was that? You thought we were all friends before we went on the trip? You can't tell from this picture because no one is touching anyone? I know. We're weird.

Apparently walking dogs is more enjoyable if you dress up like one too?

Oh now it looks like we all love each other.

 

p.s. Does anyone want to kill the new way blogger has you post pictures? I do.

I know! How awesome are changing leaves? Cactus needles don't look like this. Then we decided we were starving and went and found the Cheers bar and ate at it. Food there C+. Mostly because we were so hungry we would have eaten anything.

John was the main photographer of the group, hence all the pictures of him.

Then we walked around and looked at historical stuff. It was really cool.

Really old headstones. I'm pretty sure I had to identify this stuff on these in my American Art class at BYU.
John = wanna-be Spiderman. Once again, Boston is not going to be inviting us back any time soon.
Oh look. Two jackasses riding a donkey! After this, we acted like our late-20's selves and were in bed snoring by 8:30. We know how to party.

Day 2? Salem on Halloween......

Random

What was that? You miss the posts I would do where I would post random things about us? Okay, I'll do it again. I missed it too.

1. I have already read 31 books this year. Yes, you can also have the time to read 31 books in 11 months. It's called not having a man.
2. I am slowly conquering my always wearing shoes issue. I didn't wear any the whole time in our hotel in Boston. Baby steps, people.
3. I stopped drinking diet coke and it is slowly killing me.
4. I still write things on my hand to remember them, even though I have a cute planner, and cute pads of paper to write things on.
5. I'm taking a beginning sewing class at MCC next semester and am really excited.
6. I love watching Hannah Montana. But I HATE Phineus and Ferb.
7. I loved the movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
8. Even though I am in my late 20s, Julia, Annie and I pretend to be cats sometimes to each other. And fight or make cat noises. We're crazy cat people already..
9. Today Annie asked how old I was and I told her 87 and she believed it.
10. Julia has a cheetah snuggie and I'm real jealous of it.'
11. I found a pair of my mom's slipper/moccasin shoes and have dubbed them my new winter shoes. They have flannel in them and are really cozy. 

Baaaahhhhston

So, this is where I went this last weekend. If you can't tell, it's Boston. Some figures from our trip:

-people going on trip: 6
-lay-overs had: 2
- red-eyes flown: 1
-Dunkin' Donuts consumed: 4958
-F words said: 1(Not by me, no worries)
-times my group went to the bathroom: 14
-times I went to the bathroom: 3,928,347,134,745,609
-lobster rolls eaten: 2 (None by the girls that attended, no worries. They are as disgusting tasting as they look.)

-leaves that flew into our face/bodies/mouth because the wind never stopped blowing: 23,293,492
-times there were complaints about it being FREEZING: 2,304
-pictures taken on Harvard campus being non-classy: 18
-pictures taken of us practicing pole-dancing moves in the subway: 1
-pictures of us licking delicious food/pastries: 27
-diet cokes consumed even when it was freezing: 18
-attractive coats that were purchased at H&M: 0 (They all looked ugly on).

More pictures later, no worries. 

My Rockin' Life

Kids, don't be jealous that I went and saw U2 for free. I know, you are. I can die happy now.

This is how far away our seats were. But did I mention they were free? So who cares.

My camera struggles.

Casey invited me to go with her to this wondrous event. We need practice taking our own picture.

Luckily, a security guard who apparently had never seen a camera in his life, was able to take a decent picture of us. Bono rules!

Don't h8

So I figured it would happen eventually if I stayed single long enough.. my first country concert.
John, Amy, Erin, and me.

Dierks Bentley. Yes our seats were so close we didn't even have to zoom. And yes, we bought them like 4 months ago. If you're going to do something for the first time, you've got to do it right!
Forced awkward concert cuddling by Erin and John. Nice.
John going in for a feel-skee. Seeing as how heavy petting was going on EVERYWHERE around us, John had to fit in!

Erin trying to grab Brad Paisley's bum. Nicely done.
Don't be jealous how close we were. And yes, to all those girls out there wondering, Brad Paisley smells dang delicious.

Eff you, Martha

What Martha's craft looked like (she said that cutting each witch would take about 5 minutes. More like 50):
What ours looked like: aka pinhead and drunk witches:

Pinhead.
Drunk witches. Yeah, I'm a little bitter.

Chicago part 2

Day 3: we started out by going to "church" at Wrigley Field. And there I partook of the best hot dog I have ever had in my entire life. I didn't even have a picture of it because I ate it in like .3 seconds. But first, we ate the best cinnamon rolls on the planet. At Ann Sather. Life changing.



John loves carbs.

So, we wished our seats were this close to the field. But, some ticket website the night before gave us these:

I know Wrigley Field is supposed to be all old and stuff, but give me Chase Field any day. There's air conditioning, a sterile environment, snow cones, backs to the chairs... the list goes on.
But we found some seats in the shade which rocked. And Amy and I are perfecting taking pictures of ourselves. However, I don't know who's Relief Society arm that is attached to my body is taking the pictures. More push-ups, Emily.

Yeah, and this was us most of the time, kind of ADD. We were sitting under the scoreboard and there was no jumbotron, so we were kind of bored. Sorry, Cubs.

Us again. We had to ask 2 different strangers to take this picture for us because the first guy was an idiot. Come on, people. It's just a camera, not rocket science.
John being one with the karate kid. This was the theme for Sunday's pictures.

At least the guy was honest?

Then we went to the "beach." Weird that because the beach was on a lake, it didn't smell nasty and you didn't get sticky when you went into the water. Me and Amy on the bridge to the beach.

Like I said. The 80's would be proud.

I know, almost falling in the water pictures are always hilarious.



Once again. Karate Kid poses everywhere. Jordan and Greg went to the U2 concert, so John, Amy and I defiled Chicago by eating at CPK. Come on, we needed some vegetables that weren't fried or grilled.

Then we found a huge statue of "American Gothic." And loved it.
Chicago is pretty.
And so are we.
Yeah, Young Women, you think doing trust exercises off a picnic table at Girl's Camp is scary? How about over an electrified train rail. That's some serious trust.

End of day 3