Ok a little dramatic yes, but I’m so inspired by her it’s pretty much the truth.
I happened upon this ad a few weeks ago.
I had never been on Bonnie’s blog, Going Home to Roost.
Being a brand new blogger, I thought $5 was a steal for a little weekly inspiration.
I started reading her blog, and fell head over heels in love with her style.
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Ok, I sound like a total creep….the point is I signed up.
Now I am even more in love!
Here is what you get every single month….hi that’s a deal down there.
I am learning so much, and Bonnie is so sweet and helpful.
I feel like a total jerk for not sharing this with you all sooner…you can check out all the details by clicking here.
You should totally sign up, then you get a cute little button too! Even if you aren’t a blogger, she always has recipes and downloads. Everyone love those.
We hope you enjoyed hopping in our virtual car for a little tour of the East-ish.
Some of you commented on our post card montage. You don’t even know how much fun this was for my boytoy and the doggie.
Here are some outtakes.
You think those are funny….wait till you see our road trip videos.
We debated on sharing these, because they aren’t very flattering but every time we watch we can’t help but laugh.
Hopefully you all can just laugh at our ridiculousness too.
You wanna know how big of dorks we are, or how we entertained ourselves for 85 hours in the car, or how obsessed with tunnels we are….just watch these.
And Mom – I did not know what the “whistle song” was about, it just kept coming on the radio so we jammed.
Now you get to sneak a peek at just how goofy we are….fun in tunnels.
Okay, now that we have subjected ourselves to public humiliation. Let’s talk about our treasures.
I am definitely the girl that picks up every cool seashell as a souvenir.I am also the girl that wants to buy a memento everywhere I go.It’s my mom’s fault. Everywhere we traveled she buys coffee mugs, then every morning she gets to reflect about where she has been.
But I don’t like coffee.
So I settle for magnets & postcards.This trip we decided that when we really loooved a place (enough for three “o’s”) we would buy an ornament. We are Christmas nuts, so it seemed fitting.
We snuck off with some other treasures too. Tasty ones like chocolate covered blueberries, sweet jams, smoky bacon cheese, jalapeño chips, and some burger sauce. Some super rad tee shirts that I am sure you will spot us wearing here and there. Even doggie treats and toys. No one left behind.
We got sweet art prints from Maine and we are currently working on getting an awesome piggie painting from a Vermont store.
We also almost drove off the highway to go scoop up one of these bad boys.We also collected room keys…don’t snitch.Now the question is….what kind of crafty things can I do with all of these treasures?
Oh I just got a gut-wrenching pain…our trip is over.
Time to start planning the next one!
We knew that if we drove straight home from the East Coast we would be seriously depressed…in a car….together….for sixteen hours.
That was if there wasn’t any traffic.
We also knew that Chicago was only a six hour drive (five if your name is Tim).
So we added Chicago to our trip. That cut the depressing drive down by ten whole hours, because we were excited for Chicago for most the way home.Since we couldn’t catch a Cards-v-Cubs game, we went to the obvious vacation destination.Boy oh boy did our cameras get a workout. Hope you like photos!It goes without saying that we had a blast.
But I will say it anyway….we had a blast.We walked right into a show in their main tank. Where do I apply for that job?
I of course oogled the decor.Ummmm hi, where do you all shop?
I got caught oogling a lot that day….What can I say, I have a real weakness for sharks. Check it.I mean, how do you not love them.
I am totally serious about having a shark tank too.
Luckily, I know where to stock up on sharks.Yes, they had real shark eggs. I have video of them wriggling that I will share later this week.
There was another baby. The baby Beluga was born about a month ago.
Say “hi”
That is my dolphin imitation.It seemed like the theme of the day was large and in charge. Everything was huge.I know these aren’t the best pictures, unless you are into glare and fuzziness.
The point is look at the size of these monsters.For some reason, this reminded me of Harry Potter. So I ran….fast.Yes, that sea lion was the highlight of my trip.
He knew where the food was, so he would swim three laps then splash out to get some chow.
Everytime he got out I clapped like a….well, sea lion.
My second best friend was this little feller.He was convinced that the rubber duckie was his people.
More convinced that this duck was his BFF forever and ever.
Then there were the jellies. Oh the jellies.
It was what I want heaven to be…and has me convinced our next tank should be a jellyfish tank.That there is the general gist of our aquarium trip…minus about 450 pictures.
Shutter happy people, that’s for sure.
We were not happy to leave Chicago, since that meant our trip was pretty much over.
But we are so glad to be home….planning the next one!
When we originally planned our road trip, we planned on ending in Chicago for the Cardinals – v- Cubs series.
But then I was asked to help with the United Way, so our trip got moved up.
We still wanted to hit up Chitown, even if we couldn’t root for the home team.We didn’t have much time in Illinois, since we still had to drive six hours home.Our main attraction was none other than the Shedd Aquarium.
Where we took over 400 photos.
I decided to dedicated an entire post to all those photos, so you’ll be seeing all the aquarium goodness later this week!
While in Chicago we made a stop at Millenium park to see The Bean (aka Cloud Gate Sculpture).It was yet another attraction that we paid to park, walked to see, and then left.
We enjoyed it while we were there though.It was really neato skeeto….could have stayed and tried to figure out how to take non-blurry photos played for hours. But alas, we had to drive back to the Lou and go to work the next day. So we put our grumpy pants in the car and headed on home.
