Mi Corazón Está en Bogotá

I was in Bogota, Colombia the past week for a business trip, had lots of lab dips to approve. Little did I realize that I would fall so in love with the city that I would cry in the airport the morning of my return flights.

A few highlights:


This cathedral in downtown was absolutely magnificent.


The Colombian Presidental Palace


Colombian National Crest . . . there's lots of fantastic symbolism. The bird on the top is the Condor, the national bird.

On our last night, we went to an unbelievable gallery show for the graffiti artist TOT. I am officially obsessed!!









Here's TOT in action, he was doing a live demo outside the gallery.


All done :)

Here's a quick bio on TOT: http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/giovanny_sanchez_tot.aspx
He is one of the sweetest people I have ever met.

Cutest Doggie in the Universe

Over the weekend, I babysat my most favorite doggie in the universe, who I almost did not give back to his daddy.





...he does like posing for pictures.

Halloween + Homecoming

For the first time in the 7 (wow) years I've been going to UD homecoming, it was on Halloween. It's like they wanted it to be an extra-huge shit show.

& it was AWESOME.


Tiff (Taylor Swift) & I (Fallout 3 Vault 101 resident)


Becca & I at the tailgate...it was raining

Something New, Something Blue

So I got new glasses last week & had way to much fun taking pictures of them with my webcam.

You likey?

FARM PARTY 2009

Farm Party might be my absolute favorite tradition.

Every year, we get together at Matt's dad's house in central Jersey for a fantastic halloween costume party and bonfire.

This year's party was excellent (as always).

Another Great Show

saturday night, ben & i wen over to Sonar for the Pictureplane + HEALTH show.

i wasn't at all familiar with Pictureplane before this show...but am definitely a fan now. superfun.



and HEALTH killed it. definitely way more intense & aggressive live (as compared to their record - Get Color) and SO AWESOME. set was way too short!



and, i am now completely in love with the lead singer... *sigh*

Recent Fun

Some recent happenings:

09.17 Matt + Kim & Amanda Blank at Sonar





09.19 Oktoberfest in Lancaster









i love fun <3

Wacco for Flacco

On Friday night, ben & i got a text from his dad that he had two tickets to Sunday's Ravens game for us! An awesome surprise :)

Some pictures:


view from our seats (thanks WSBA!!)


me & shannon (it's her bday today, woot)


ben & i


kristyn & i


& the best part? The Ravens won!

Courtney's Visit!

Courtney visited this weekend, and we went to Brewer's Art.





It was fun :D

Dan Deacon/No Age/Deerhunter Round Robin at Sonar

Friday night's round robin at Sonar was unreal.

All the bands killed it - especially No Age, who were new to me. I'm newly obsessed. They are definitely bringing punk rock back <3 href="http://photobucket.com/" target="_blank">
Dan Deacon


No Age

Overall, one of the best best best nights I've had in a while.

Pete Yorn @ Ram's Head Live

on Tuesday, Ben & I went over to Ram's Head Live to see Pete Yorn, a long-time favorite of mine.

not only was the show AMAZING, but my super-duper-awesome cousin Jay hooked me up with an in to the soundcheck.



<3

Wedding Bonanza

ben and i went to two weddings in the last month.

tom & andrea's wedding in lancaster, PA:





rachele & kevin's wedding in blue bell, PA:





both were beautiful & awesomely fun :D

E P I C w e e k e n d

tiff visited this weekend and we celebrated 4th of july hardcore.

tons of food, tons of firework, tons and tons of booze.

some pictures:


tiff & i



ben & i during the fireworks



ben & mike enjoying some roman candles

Dela-Bration

the 1st annual UD reunion weekend was last weekend.

this picture pretty much sums it up:



(friday night's festivities included green screen pics, hence the very fake background)

California on my Mind

last night, ben & i went down to the 930 Club for the Wild Light/Doves show.

Wild Light kicked ass. got some good pictures.

graduation celebration

my little bro became a fellow blue hen alum on saturday!






i'm a proud sister :)

Benny's Bday Celebration

ben & i went down to the 9:30 club on his birthday (05/17) to see Dan Deacon, Teeth Mountain & Future Islands.


We had fun.


Dan was awesome as always.


Teeth Mountain was good, but we both LOVED Future Islands. Definitely want to see those guys again soon.