December 20, 2009 =)

Dec 13 09

Hi everyone.  I am updating my blog tonight to show you the latest project I’ve been working on.  It’s been feeling very wintry lately, so I’ve started a fun new crocheting project.  Besides working at my new job at creative office interiors, an office furniture supplier in hartford, and my old job at old navy, I have been working on this fun, colorful, little granny-square blanket.

If it comes out successfully, I may consider making another one to try to sell on Etsy.  The next step may be scarves and possibly wrist warmers like the ones pictured here: wrist worms.  What do you think?              =)

10.12.09

My second Regina Spektor concert. =)

Sept 12, 2009

Regina Spektor at the Chicago Theatre!!

Last month my friend Josh and I drove about 32 hours in one weekend to see Regina Spektor and hang out in Chicago for a day. It was great!

Rome was a lot of fun- so much to see and do; one day was definitely not enough.  We had one full day to see as much as we could.  Here is what we saw:

30 September 2009

It is about midnight now and I finally got an internet connection here in our hotel room in Rome!  I’ll have to put the past few days worth of photos up all together.  We’ve been busy.  The last 3 nights we were in Alberobello which is a pretty little village filled with these funny little huts called trulli.  Trulli is the plural for trullo.  There wasn’t any working internet there.  There was a huge festival going on in Alberobello while we were there.  It was completely unexpected and ended up being a lot of fun.  The streets were closed off and there was just a big outdoor market with lights that lit up the main piazza in the village.  Yesterday we took a day trip to Martina Franca and Locorotondo.  Both were really nice, small towns.  Really beautiful.  It was nice meandering around the quiet streets.  Today we got up early and caught a train from Alberobello to Bari, and then Bari to Rome- 8 hours total on the train.  We arrived into Rome around 6:30pm, walked around the Piazza Novana and got dinner.  Rome is very hectic compared to the last 2 weeks of smaller cities and villages we’ve seen.

Pictures from Alberobello, Martina Franca, and Locorotondo:

26 September 2009

Now it is about 1:30am and I am uploading the rest of my pics from today.  Dori and I took the local FSE train today to Otranto.  Otranto is a little beach town on the Adriatic Coast about 40km from Lecce.    It was really nice! And now I can say I put my feet in the Adriatic Sea!  It was really quiet there today because it’s a little off season for the beach. The weather was great though. It was around 80 degrees today and mostly sunny. =)

Tomorrow morning at 11:00 we are taking a bus from Lecce to Alberobello where we will stay for the next three nights.  I really like travel days so I’m excited for tomorrow.  Whenever I’m walking through a city with my backpack on it really makes me want to go on a backpacking trip!  I just really like the adventure of not really knowing what to expect of a new place.

I think the bus ride tomorrow is about 3 hours.  In Aberobello there are these interesting little stone (I think) huts called trulli’s and I guess we are staying in one while we are there!  Not sure about internet in a trulli…but I will try my best to post some pics tomorrow night.

26 September 2009

It’s almost 11pm and we just got in from dinner, our last night in Lecce.  Tonight the streets were filled with young people just walking around with friends.  It was really different than the last few days we’ve been in Lecce.  For the most part its been a very quiet little city.  Lecce is definitely my favorite city so far on this trip.  It really is the perfect combination of a lively city and a quaint, cute village.

Happy 16 Meredith! =)

23Sept09

Matera, Italy

Tomorrow we go to Lecce. I’ll update again when we get there!