Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts

Friday, January 10, 2014

42 Wallaby Way?

Whale shark with fish groupies

Happy Friday! In Atlanta and looking for something to do this weekend?

We went on a little daytime holidate (holiday date - see what I did there?) to the Georgia Aquarium just before New Year's. If you're ever in Atlanta, especially on a cold or rainy day, it's worth a visit. Make sure to plan time to enjoy the main tank with the whale sharks and manta rays - it was my favorite!

Goliath grouper vs boy staring contest
Looks like the Goliath Grouper is about to have a little boy snack, doesn't he? I sincerely hope the boy is making the same grumpy face back at him.

Colorful jellyfish

Blacktip reef shark in the main tank

Have you been to an aquarium lately? What about the zoo?



Sunday, September 1, 2013

Snapshots of this Summer


So although I know that it's not technically autumn yet, I kind of feel like the last official day of summer was Saturday. And it was a really nice, sunny, pub lunch and hang out in the park kind of day. It made me just a little bit sad that summer is nearly over, but we had some amazing summer adventures and lots of outside time - just take a look!

Found tons and tons of flowers on Howth Hill during a stroll in Ireland...

Including this Disney-esque scene of fallen pink petals and twisty tree limbs, which were perfect for climbing.


A dream-come-true tiger kiss (and the most amazing day photographing big cats)!


Home for Fathers Day and freshly baked doughnuts for breakfast to celebrate. I definitely have some autumn themed doughnut recipes in the works!


A family trip to this beautiful and low-key beach with plenty of walks...




And also many loggerhead turtle nests spotted on those walks - I so wanted to see baby turtles!


We also made good use of the bikes at the beach. It was nice to take breaks with leisurely shaded bike rides in the afternoon - and on the beach in the evenings once the tide went out!


A nostalgic eatery visiting tour of Athens, Georgia with my sister. (Mama's Boy, Big City Bread, and Last Resort, I'm looking at you!)


And VERY colorful legs (actually, head to toe colorful!) after the Color Run, which was my first official 5k! Please note: only one of those legs is mine!

Spent a weekend in Wales and hiked up Snowdon.


Also spent a sunny Saturday walking around central London like great big tourists. Because sometimes you forget that monuments and sightseeing type things are everywhere when you live nearby.

I enjoyed times about 100 all of the beautiful, sunny, and seasonally appropriate weather in and around London and elsewhere this summer. So I suppose it's only fair that autumn's starting to sneak in now, right? At least I can unabashedly consumer unreasonable quantities of pumpkin soon, right?

Did you soak up as much sunshine as you could this summer? What are you looking forward to as it starts to cool off?

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Summer Reading

View from my reading spot in the sand (my paperback possibly disintegrated a little bit, but so worth it!)

Hello all! I'm back from a little holiday with the family - more on that later. I read David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas at the beach. It took a few false starts for me to really get into it - something about the language used in the first chapter of the book was just not clicking with me at first - but I'm really glad I summoned my powers of concentration, because I thoroughly enjoyed the rest of the book! I particularly love the shifts in narrative and the connections that come to light. Overall, the style kind of reminded me of books by Haruki Murakami and Kazuo Ishiguro. Apparently Mitchell has a connection with Japan too - I wonder if that's what is infiltrating the style. Have you read Cloud Atlas? Or seen the film? What did you think?

I left The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared for my sister and mom to share. Also a good read (and a bit lighter than Cloud Atlas) if you're looking for one.

I also finally finished Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy over the weekend. I'm ready for a lighter read now. Any recommendations?

New GF cookie recipe to appear soon, please check back tomorrow!