London...

I apologize for the large delay between posts. With working and job hunting, I've been fairly busy - even on my days off! I'm really enjoying using this blog to remember the trip and all of our favorite things!

London was hands-down our favorite city to travel in. Besides the fact that English-speaking countries made us feel at ease, London just felt very similar to a city in America. It was like the hustle and bustle of NYC but amped up to 11. 

We went to the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum. It was amazing to culture ourselves. The V&A had some fabulous historic costume (which I was practically squealing over). We also saw some amazing historic artifacts like the Rosetta Stone!

Mostly, our trip's main concern was FOOD! We love trying new cuisines and eating all different varieties. While in London, we had Turkish, Thai, traditional British, and Indian food (as well as a ton of other street food). The highlights were having fish and chips, as well as having a true afternoon tea.

We did a lot of sight-seeing. We saw all of the lovely historic sites, like Big Ben and Buckingham Palace. We saw Platform 9 and 3/4 and lots of other train stations (J loves trains!). We spent one day at Greenwich, learning about the British Royal Naval Academy and checking out the Prime Meridian. We stood on 0 degrees! It was a lot of fun.

Through our entire trip, the World Cup was going on. We loved watching games at the pubs, or even inside of our little apartments (which we fortunately could do in Paris!). We saw amazing street art and graffiti, which I did an entire post on a few weeks ago. Overall, London was an amazing city and we are certainly going to visit there again someday.

Amazing sculpture at the Victoria & Albert Museum

Proper "chippy" 

Big Benji

High tea with amazing sweets

World Cup fever!

Standing on the Prime Meridian

J's amazing pie with the works at Pieminister

Looking for Harry!

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Madrid...

Hello! I thought I'd do a post or two on each city that we visited during our 16 day adventure.

Our first and last stop on the trip was Madrid. We did our first and last two days there. J had already been there for a work conference last year, so luckily he was familiar with many of the streets and popular areas. It was nice to start and end with something that we knew better, because the other two cities were very stressful at times.

We stayed in two different places, the first being a six-bed hostel. Neither of us had ever stayed in a hostel before, but it was a very cool experience and certainly not as scary as you would imagine! We had very interesting roommates from all over the world (and they all spoke at least some English) and they told us about their travels. It was great to get some insight into other cultures!

Our favorite parts of Madrid were definitely the weather and the food/drink. It was gorgeous and warm all four days there, with very low humidity and lots of sun. We got excellent tans! Also, the food is yummy and cheap. We drank a lot of beer and sangria. A lot of their food is fried or involves bread, which can be heavy at times, but they do smaller portions (tapas) so that you really don't consume as much as you would normally.

At the end of our trip, we stayed in a little apartment in a popular city square. We had two sets of french doors that opened up and you could look out and see all the restaurants and people running around. It was so beautiful. On our last full day abroad, we used our towels and laid out and got some color - it was so nice to simply ENJOY being in another country without having to be doing something constantly. We both really enjoyed our time in Madrid and basically accomplished everything we wanted to see while there!

Here are a few photos of the cool things we did in Madrid (with MANY more to come in the future!)

J's view at our hostel, RC San Miguel

Temple of Debod - rebuilt Egyptian ruins

Atocha train station

Paella! Really delicious and HUGE portions

The view from our french doors during our second stay! Stunning lights.

The famous Churros and Chocolate (coffee for me) from San Gines!

Chocolateria San Gines, serving chocolate and churros since 1894!

We ate a lot of croquetas in Spain. These were enormous and had many different fillings - cheese, seafood, ham, etc. YUM!

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London Graffiti...

J and I are back from our big adventure abroad! We got back one week ago, and we both have started our jobs. Things are really busy. I'll work on a longer post about the travels, but I thought for now that I would post some of the images I took in London at the Brick Lane market. It's really popular for street art - and as someone who loves graffiti, I was really impressed. These are some of my favorite pictures!

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Graduation & Traveling...

I am so sorry for the extreme lull of posts lately. I am graduating this weekend from Drexel! Besides the extremely hectic nature of finishing up school, J and I are also traveling to Europe. We leave on Monday and will be gone for a little over two weeks. We're doing London, Paris, and Madrid!

There will be plenty of pictures and updates once the summer is here. I will have many stories from my travels, so please look out for blog posts again starting in the second week of July!

<3 <3 <3

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A Bit of Shimmer...

I am obsessed with Sally Hansen's new line of top coats! I already own Big Matte, but I just recently purchased Big Shimmer, and I have to say it's fabulous. It is going to completely transform all of the colors in your collection you may be getting bored of . It works really well and makes the polish shimmer and shine!

Below is one of my recently purchased Julep colors, Courteney, with just one coat of Big Shimmer on top. I love it and can't wait to experiment more!

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Fun Fabric...

I had such a nice weekend with my Aunt who loves to craft! We went to JoAnn's and I bought a yard of a few different fabrics that I thought were just adorable.

Yes, those are little hot dogs in sweaters, a Simpsons print, a breakfast print, a map, some piggies in mud, and flowers!

Does anyone have any great projects for using only 1 yard of fabric? I'm going to start doing research on fun small projects to do. I'm not great with my sewing machine, but I'm going to learn! 

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Being Cord-ial...

I'm working on a project right now for someone that involves preparing some fishtailed paracord bracelets! I've never worked with the material before, but it's so much fun! I look forward to possibly making some of these for myself in the future.

Ta-da! The neat finished project!

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