village center shenanigans

i'm sort of failing miserably at updating my blog. i think this tends to happen a lot when i get home because i'm so distracted and i figure that most everyone who reads it is here anyway. but then again alison and i were talking the other day about something that happened last year and neither one of us could remember what the heck had happened...so we read the blog :) 

we've been having pretty much a week long sleepover. most of my day consists of waking up, checking email, working on whatever design thing is currently needed, talking to people and then alison comes over, we hang out and the whole day is repeated. of course, there is other stuff thrown in so don't worry i do manage to make it out of the house everyday between visiting river hill, picnics at centennial park, walking jimmy, going to the gym, going to work with my dad, etc. tomorrow we're leaving after sarah gets out of school to drive up to new jersey to see eric dance! 

the other night sarah and i went to the village center to meet up with sarah and liz for a bit. shenanigans occurred. 

this was the most normal of the pictures

and this should pretty much sum up everything else that happened... 

awww.. cute... 

Benjamin Button

It's been a rather relaxing week-- of course, that IS the point of breaks.

Christmas was on Thursday. I'm not really sure that we made it outside the house that day. Ate lots of delicious food, opened presents, hung around. All the makings of a good day.

Friday we went to the mall for some shopping (clothes from urban outfitters!) and then we all went out to see a movie (the Curious Case of Benjamin Button) Overall we decided that we really enjoyed the movie, however, it was a tad long. But definitely worth seeing if you haven't already. Friday night we ate dinner and then I got a text from Eric saying he was on his way home! He had a 14 hour plane ride back from South Korea where he and some other ABT members were performing the Nutcracker with the Korean Ballet. Surprisingly enough, he's still alive and kickin' despite the enormous amount of jetlag that plagues most travelers.

Today we took a walk through the back alleys of northern NJ to the bank (just kidding about the alleys..), ate some more good food, played balderdash and now we're all getting ready to go out to dinner!

This video is just something I found on my random intraweb searchings.. thought it was interesting.

Christmas Eve

Every time I come home for break my blogging abilities take a turn for the worst. Oops!

Anyway, I flew home really early last Friday morning. It was a rather uneventful flight, however, I appear to have amazing luck because this was not the case for everyone. Roughly an hour and a half after my flight took off (on a dry run way) it started snowing and didn't quit until sometime on Saturday. RIT ended up canceling classes after 2 pm on Friday which never happens. My friend was posting videos from the Rochester airport since her flight was delayed indefinitely and it was a complete white-out with snow. So, moral of the story.. sometimes it pays to only get 50 minutes of sleep and take a really early flight! 

Friday night we put up ornaments on our fifteen foot Christmas tree. Yeah, that's right, fifteen feet. I guess without my supervision they go wild! 

The rest of break has included eating enormous quantities of delicious Christmas cookies made by my mom, hanging out with Alison, doing last minute Christmas shopping and other random things.

Alison and Megan slept over last night and then this morning we woke up and drove up to New Jersey where we are now! Eric should be getting here tomorrow night (our time) I think. He's been performing the Nutcracker in South Korea for the past ten days or so. 

Merry Christmas Eve to all and to all a good afternoon!