Disneyland

I got to go to the "happiest place on Earth" yesterday--woo hoo! I spent the entire day at Disneyland and California Adventure and went on all the fun rides. I think my favorite ride is Space Mountain. I had only been to Disneyland once before (five years ago) and Space Mountain was closed for renovations. All in all, it was a very fun day!

Also...I went to the Long Beach Museum of Art this weekend, which I had never been to. It was small, but the location of the museum is amazing, so it was fun too!

New York, New York!

Oh my gosh! Sabina and I had a BLAST in NY this past weekend. I can't remember the last time I laughed so much and so hard. Our trip was one of the most fun trips I've ever taken and Jeff and Liz's wedding was, I'm pretty sure, the most fun wedding I've ever been to. The band alone was amazing--it was like being at a small concert. This entry contains some of the pictures that I took throughout the weekend, but it doesn't contain any of the pictures that Sabina took, so I'll have to add those later.

When Sabina and I got to NYC on Thursday, we had about ten hours in the city. And this is what we did: Battery Park, Bowling Green, Wall Street, NYSE, Federal Bldg., Trinity Church, Ground Zero, East Village, lunch with Tara and kids, Chelsea Market, Canal Street, MOMA, Times Square, Bryant Park, Rockefeller Center, and Central Park. Can you believe we did all of that?!




After our whirlwind day in the city, we drove up to Fishkill in the Lower Hudson Valley. On Friday we went to Jeff and Liz's wedding, shopped in Cold Springs, and then partied at the reception and after party.


On Saturday after breakfast we toured Liz and Jeff's house in Ossining and then walked around Roosevelt State Park (so pretty!!). Then, it was back into the city for dinner with Nicole and her friends Kit and Roselyn and a walk around Washington Square Park, NoHo, and Greenwich Village.

Visiting the Nixon Library & Birthplace

On Sunday I went to a BBQ at my uncle's niece’s house in Placentia (yeah for extended, extended family!) and since I was up in the area, I checked out the Nixon Presidential Library & Birthplace in Yorba Linda. Politics aside, the museum was interesting, his birthplace was quaint, and the gardens and reflecting pool were beautiful. I only had 1 1/2 hours to spend there, so I'll have to go back sometime to see the inside of his birthplace and explore the museum in more detail.

Floral Design

Here are pictures of my most recent floral design projects. I'm taking a floral design class at Saddleback Community College this semester and I LOVE it! The first two pictures are orchid corsages, the next two are round arrangements, and then the last picture is my rose arrangement from last night.

House Decorations!

Oh I am so excited! I have accomplished one of my new year's resolutions and finally, after 3 1/2 years, put some pictures and artwork up on the walls of my condo. Check out my work from last weekend:

Free

And that's all I have to say about that.

Sell! Sell! Sell!

I had a successful week on Craig's List last week. I sold a pair of Coach eyeglasses that had been sitting in my bathroom cupboard for the past two years, unused since my LASIK surgery. AND, I finally sold the rest of my laminate flooring and baseboards from when I redid the floors in my condo two years ago. The extra money is nice and the freed up space in my garage is nice too!

Now I'm trying to sell an old pair of Ralph Lauren sunglasses, a bridesmaid dress from my cousin's wedding, my desktop computer (and eventually the IKEA desk it is sitting on), and a red Coach wallet.

I've got some great ideas for decorating my house--for some reason, I've suddenly been inspired, and the small amount of money I make from selling my unused items will go towards my decorating fund. I'm so excited about my house decorations--look for pictures as I decorate!