Day #14: Happy Birthday Per

Day #14 was a really productive. I paid all my bills, worked on my budget, booked a trip to Hawaii, bought a new laptop bag, went for a run outside (in January!!), went to one of my favorite little restaurants in KC called Potpie, went to celebrate with my friend Per's birthday, then met up with some friends until like midnight. I'm exhausted just reading this. No wonder I'm tired:) Enjoy a picture of Per and I from his party. The them was hipsters and shipsters(pirates)....

Day #13: Blanncccc

Tonight we went to Blanc Burger for dinner. One of my favorite, local, burger places in KC. We had to wait over an hour, but it was well worth it. While we waited....it was picture time:)

Me, Scottie, and Becky waiting at the bar at Blanc. Other than that, my day was booorrringgg. Meetings all day:( But Blanc was the perfect way to end the day!

Day #12: Happy Birthday Ginny Rae:)

Today is one of my very best friend Ginny Rae Alley McCullough's birthday!

Okay, so that is not her full name..she got rid of Rae when she got married, but I will always know her as Ginny Rae:) This pic was obviously not taken today, but a little over two years ago from her bridal luncheon. Ginny and I met through our other best friend Shae at NCSU and we were instant best friends. We sat through endless baseball games together and my college experience definitely would not be the same without her! G-Rae-I love you very much and hope you had the best birthday ever!

Day #11: Blue Dog Cafe

I finally got to venture out of the "Mardi Gras" conference room (it is not very Mardi Gras AT ALL) and go to one of the "famous" restaurants of Lafayette, Louisiana; the Blue Dog Cafe.

And man, it was good! So worth it:) I got a flouder stuffed with crab, that had etoufee covering the top. I should have taken a picture of it, because it was pretty too! But I was too hungry and forgot:) If anyone ever comes to Lafayette, I highly recommend it! I just found out I might have to come back here next week too, lucky me, so I might have to go again:) it was that good!

Day #10: Work, Work, and more Work

So today was by far the most boring day of the year. Granted we are only on day #10, but I'm really struggling on what I can even write today. Here is what I did:

Wake up, run in the hotel gym, get ready for work, eat breakfast, work for 11 hours, eat dinner in the hotel lounge, more work, and that's it. Exciting huh? Well the only time I really saw daylight was my walk across the street to the lovely strip mall for lunch, where they had a Tropical Smoothie Cafe. And no lie, it was actually pretty good. So today, my picture is of Tropical Smoothie Cafe. Enjoy;)



On a side note, to reward myself on an 11+ hour work day, I started REALLY looking at flights to Hawaii in March for Lori's birthday! Yay for fun vacation with my favorites!

Day #9: Travel Nightmare

Today was a travel nightmare. Well, it officially started on Friday when I had to book a last minute trip to Lafayette, LA..I'll spare everyone the details:) But I woke up at 4:30, left my house at 5:30, made it to Houston by 10 am. Then sat, sat, and sat some more for 6 hours, while terrible thunderstorms haulted all planes in and out of Houston. All I have to say is thank goodness for my IPAD and Netflix. They were a lifesaver! Also, to make today a little bit better, once we got to the hotel at 6:45, I finally got to take advantage of my new Gold status with Hilton-free appetizers/dinner for this girl in an upgraded room:) Thank you Hilton. You made this terrible, rainy, miserable, boring day a little bit better! It's the little things....

Day #8: Resurrection Downtown

Happy Sunday Friends! My church opened a downtown campus a little over a year ago and moved into a new, bigger building a few weeks ago:) This Sunday was the first time I have gotten to go and it was amazing! I met Anna and Jeremy this morning and really enjoyed the sermon. Our pastor started a series on Love, Sex, and Marriage...and it was really awesome, even for a single girl like me:)

Here are is a picture of the new building

and me and Anna in front of Church thanks to our awesome photographer:)

I ended the night with one last dinner with Lori:( We went over to Jenn's and ate lasagna and Jenn suprised us with a Red Velvet Cake, our favorite with snowflakes of course:)


I'm off to Lafayette, Louisiana tomorrow...just in time for a Championship game:) Only I'm going for work...but I'll try and post a few pics from my trip!