No Shirts. No Shoes. No Service.

Thanksgiving break meant heading to Honduras to visit WillyD. In total 8 crazy BC hooligans made their way to Tela, Honduras and the GORGEOUS villa we rented... cabana caracol. It was a fantastic break. Here are few glimpses (very few) and thanks pals for letting me snap some of your FB photos.

I made personalize Koozies for each of us!

And some shades to help from the hot Honduran sun!

I hadn't seen Phader in TWO years. Please note this coffee with questionable water might have contributed to his "Hot Vinyasa Flow"

We drove around in this rented truck... 5 in the truck and 3 + in the bed!

This was our pool on the MOST awesome deck a villa could ever have!

Group Photo Left to Right, Top to Bottop... Mateo, Phader, Jimbo, WillyD, Bellski, Erin, Me and Ana. Please note the AWESOME shirts that Ana had made for all of us "Honduras Vacaciones"

This is me at the "behind the scene" water fall tour we took!

And all of us before zip-lining the waterfall that we had adventured underneath!

And a creepy photo of Ana rescheduling her flight (I was waiting in the gate area but could see here through the window)!

 

 

 

 

All in all it was the most incredible vacation anyone could ask for. 

Thanks for the memories all!

The Promise Land...

A few weeks back, I headed to the Promise Land... Also known as the RV lot at Notre Dame campus when half of Boston College's campus has adventured over (as I did my BC Senior year)...

This time around I was headed with wonderful friends of the school.... but I did get to meet up with plenty of my Boston College loves... including a good crew of the Arrupe Program Belize Trip 2009-2010

Here we are at Finns?! A ND bar that was FILLED with BC fans.

Our wonderful tailgate host! And the CRJ crew.

Julie Visk and I on our way to the "promise land"

We had the MOST amazing seats. Front Row... 50 yard line.

ACE Program ND Alumni

Thanks for such an AWESOME weekend.

the bad blogger award goes to...

me!

for not posting in a million years.

I'll handle this by doing the obligatory photo dump.. and I plan on posting some updates on my recent travels and adventures as well!

look at these goodies I made for Jasminne's Birthday!

Two kinds of cupcakes, sprinkles, coconut, frosting.... Nom nom.

Tomás and I have been frequenting a pub near my house that has Monday Night Football Bingo... It's pretty fun to play! Cheers to Porch Swing Pub.

This is the start of our Holiday decoration... this wreath I made and put up right before I left for Thanksgiving Vacation! We will do some more decorating tonight!

This is my new jewelry hanger... I've made these before and this one has been done for awhile but I need to find the time to hang it up!

feeling generous.

having trouble embedding the youtube video....

but our favorite friends is back....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta9K22D0o5Q&feature=player_embedded

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2011/11/finally-new-marcel-shell-shoes/45001/


Hopefully this can get ya to the action!

this american life...

Please listen to this... when you have some free moments... and you are ready for some serious giggles (not to mention reminiscing)

This American Life

adventures in tea tasting...

I've always been one to dabble in Teas of various assortments and flavors AND last Christmas a coworker gave me the GREATEST tea set that is perfect for me to use at work. Thus, my adventures in tea tasting was solidified.

This year I have my own little cubicle/cubby space and for some reason I have been capitalizing on the pinboard walls by pinning up each bag (working on some sort of patter and I am excited to do something neat with all the packages someday)...

A coworker (former blogger) you may recall her from a previous blog post about wedding dress shopping told me about a tea called "Throat Coat".

I opened the bag... got a good wiff of the smell, and pinned the package into my collection, got my hot water (well forgot it in the microwave so had to go back down and get it), poured the water and took a sip...

Then the MAGIC...

welll not really but as I had been warned/informed the tea tastes normal BUT when you swallow it coats your through in a sugary/honey like feeling! WOW! but it doesn't taste sugarry or honeyish...

Seriously it was strange! But interesting... and the sensation stayed there for awhile too!

Feel free to send me teas to sample and Ill send back a review!

crayons!

So I started a new project....

I wanted to decorate my lampshade in my room. I used the colors orange, green and blue because my room is mostly those colors!


The crayons were hot glue gunned to the lampshade...

like the new instagram photos i took!

Then I took a hair dryer and let it do it's magic... It got a little messy... but that is never a bad thing.

One power outage later.... I had a new lamp!

And now it serves me well in my room!