So about a month after we got home from Scandinavia we got an email from Norwegian Airlines saying "crazy cheap flights to Europe..you NEED to go," jk it didn't say that but it pretty much did. 

We scored round trip tickets to Europe for under $600 each. CRAY

We started our Euro road trip in Hamburg. 

Hamburg is known as a "working metropolitan" city. We arrived around 1:30 pm, jet lagged as can be, but DONT worry it was Hamburg DOM! Yeah, I didn't know what it was at first either but basically it is a HUGE fair, probably the best thing you can imagine to help beat jet lag. 

We got to our awesome apartment hotel, perfect size and space for your first night in Europe after a long day traveling. Once we did some yoga, we headed to DOM and absolutely loved it. We ate the best doughnuts drenched in powder sugar, drank some local brew, had one too many coffees (gotta make it till at least 9 pm) and bought more candy. 

About 2 hours into Dom it starts snowing, i don't mean cute little romantic snow flurries, I mean blizzard snow, but everyone was just carrying on as if nothing was wrong...we thought the whole place was going to shut down, OH NO, everything just kept on a going, we road a huge roller coaster in a blizzard...that will be one memory for the books.   

obligatory "I'm in germany in the fall with my main lad" pic 

Bless my jet lagged heart.

I mean honestly...so darn cute

Next morning we woke up, T picked up the rental car and we were on to AMSTERDAM (possibly my new favorite European city)

xo

m

Chicago Girls Weekend

There is nothing better than a spontaneous trip. 

It was a Saturday when Rachel, one of my long time friends, calls and says: 

"hey, wanna go to Chicago Thursday?"

UMMMM yes! 

And that was that. 

We had an amazing weekend in Chicago. So much fun to spend time together. Even thought we've all been changing and doing different things in the world, we know that when we come together it is bound to be wonderful. 

We ate REALLY good food, visited wonderful museums, strolled through the park, shopped a little too much, and drank way too many soy vanilla lattes. 

(killer hotel view)

(some lady offered to take our photo...she was so sweet... but really?! This close? we laughed for a good 15 minutes)

(I'll do yoga with this view ANY day.)

Time with friends is always time well spent. 

PS,

If you are every in Chicago DO NOT MISS these:

The Museum of Science and Industry

(cool interactive exhibits!...I loved the space area)

Lou Manlnati's Pizza

(Killer deep dish pizza)

Water Tower Place

(amazing shopping) 

Millennium Park

(Amazing things to walk around and look at)

Art Institute of Chicago

xoxo

m

Spring break

Some exciting things have happened since our Euro trip:

1. We just got back from a cruise to Mexico with all our friends!

2. We moved into a darling little apartment. We take the train and walk a lot now. It makes us happy.

3. I am all signed up for graduate school...May 12 here I come!

4. And probably the most exciting news of all.... I got the internship of a lifetime. More on this later.

Without further ado...

Here my friends is Mexico