The Real Deal

This past weekend, I made the 5 hour trip up to Chicago to visit some of my friends from college!  We mainly went to attend the Mustache Bar Crawl in Wrigleyville, but also to hang out since we haven't really seen each other all summer. I took the train since I didn't really want to drive the 5 hours all by myself.  My first train on Friday left at 3:00pm, but I ended up getting into Chicago 2 hours late because a freight train broke down in front of us.  I didn't mind being late, I just felt bad making my friend hang around the city for so long while waiting for me!  We eventually met up, and we just headed back to her house to sleep and get ready for the bar crawl the next day. Saturday morning, we got ready, picked up some of her friends from home, and headed into the city!  We found a parking spot about a 10 minute drive from Wrigleyville, and took an Uber to the first bar of the day: Rizzo's! On the way to our next bar, we obviously had to take...

This past weekend, I drove up to my college town, Peoria, IL., to spend some time with some of my friends from college! As I've mentioned before on here, I am on the dance team at my university, and am also on the executive board for my dance team.  Before going home for the summer, we picked the weekend of July 7-8, to come back to school and have a dance workshop.  My entire team ended up being there that weekend, plus some people brought friends from home, making it a big and fun group! It is only a 2 hour and 30 minute drive to Peoria for me, so I left on Saturday morning so that I had time to get there and get settled before I had to head over to start our classes. The teacher of our first day of classes was the former dance teacher of one of the girls on our team.  We are a completely self-choreographed and taught team, so taking classes from a real dance teacher again felt really good!  She taught us four classes on Saturday: ballet technique, jazz ...

Hi everyone! This past weekend was so  much more relaxed than my crazy weekend last week! Friday started out with breakfast with my brother and grandpa.  We went to one of our favorite breakfast places, The Original Pancake House.  I wasn't feeling pancakes this day, so I got a ham and cheddar omelet which was still delicious. When my parents got home that night, we made a fire and had a simple dinner of chicken, cheesy rice, and broccoli.  It was such a nice and relaxing evening! On Saturday, my brother and dad drove to the University of Missouri to watch the basketball game (a birthday gift for my brother), so my mom and I had a girls' day!  We started by doing something not so fun, though: taking down the Christmas decorations.  It's all down now except for our two trees, and let me tell you, our house looks so plain and sad now! We then went to the mall to do some shopping.  We could spend hours in the mall, but surprisingly only went to ...

Hello everyone!  I hope you all had a great and happy New Year!  I had the best weekend.  It was jam packed with events, but I loved being busy, and it was quite the weekend! On Friday, my family went out to a delicious steak house to celebrate my grandpa's birthday!  This place is one of our favorites, and we spend a lot of birthday dinners here! For my salad choice, I chose one of my faves: caprese!  It was absolutely delicious. For my entree, I had a 6 oz filet mignon and mashed potatoes. And for dessert, my all time favorite, creme brulee! There was a special holiday cocktail that the waiter so kindly let me try.  It was prosecco, pomegranate juice, and pomegranate seeds.  It was absolutely beautiful and delicious! On Saturday, I met two of my best friends from high school for coffee and crepes!  Since we all go to college so far from each other, it was so nice to be able to see them and catch up, and we are already pla...