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Road Trip USA: Indiana - Illinois - Iowa

nobody@vox.com(mystique) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:39:42 -0400

after we left kentucky, we had a killer driving day. we drove through Indiana, Illinois and Iowa in one day. it took us about 13 hours to do. we ended up passing through a time zone which was kind of discombobulating on top of the long drive! we got a motel room that night and ate at this gross diner and fell exhausted into bed.

Indiana - Amber Waves of Grain

Illinois - The Land of Lincoln

this reminded me of the car crash scene in Beetlejuice!

we stopped at this museum while passing through Illinois

this is NOT lincoln's hat

whoo hoo lincoln!

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old timey piano

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the best part of the museum - dress up in the children's section!!! (we were the only ones in the museum BTW)

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sitting inside a teepee!

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Iowa - Fields of Opportunities

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sunset over Iowa

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windmills we saw the next morning leaving waterloo, iowa

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Road Trip USA: Kentucky

nobody@vox.com(mystique) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:33:03 -0400

after saying good bye to will's dad in west virginia, we finally started our road trip into new territory! we camped in charleston, west virginia for one night but i forgot to take pictures (it was a very pretty - on top of this mountain, completed surrounded by trees but way too many noisy bugs!).

the next day, we drove through kentucky and stopped at the Natural Bridge State Park in Slade!

kentucky whoo hoo!

they have a gondola at the state park that you can ride to the top of this cliff to see the "Natural Bridge"

going up

and up...

someone sent their cooler ahead of them!

AND UP!!!

almost there!

made it to the top

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thank god for self-timer cameras

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the view below

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the Natural Bridge - made out of limestone

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another view of the bridge

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the scarier part was going DOWN!

straight shot down!

the view was amazing

if you are ever in kentucky, i highly recommend going to the Natural Bridge!

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our campsite is below, to the left of the road

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lake near our campsite

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sun going down in kentucky

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Road Trip USA: D.C. & West Virginia

nobody@vox.com(mystique) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:46:55 -0400

will and i embarked on our journey to california on september 8th, 2009. we left hartford, connecticut and drove first to D.C. to visit will's mom. we stayed there until september 12th then headed to wardensville, west virginia to see will's dad before we traveled westward!

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will, his mom and his two sets of godparents

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in front of the White House

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just happened to get there at the same time as Obama!

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we went up the washington monument

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view from above

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we visited the mexican cultural institute with will's mom

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our car all packed up and ready to go - it's soo full, its ready to burst!

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taking a walk with the dogs at will's dad's cabin in w.va

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view of the garden from the front porch

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hiking to swim at a reservoir

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two minutes before this pic was taken - we saw two copperheads on the shore!!!

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me & will & will's dad

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i don't think we were technically allowed to swim here...

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so pretty!

...stayed tuned for more pictures from our road trip - i have soooo much more!

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I'm a California Girl!!!

nobody@vox.com(mystique) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:34:03 -0400

I made it to California okay! We got here last Tuesday but we have been so busy, I haven't been able to update! I will put up pictures of our adventures when I have more time.

I hope you all are doing well!!!!!!! XOXOXO

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Never Forget - September 11, 2001

nobody@vox.com(mystique) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:37:51 -0400

911

Remember

~With You In Your Dreams~

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Farewell Connecticut

nobody@vox.com(mystique) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:08:16 -0400

my boyfriend and i are embarking on our journey westward tomorrow! we are moving to oakland, california and we should be there by the end of the month. i have just spent the last four days saying goodbye to practically every person that is dear to me. it has been very sad and i am emotionally exhausted and overwhelmed. i knew it was going to be hard to leave but i didn't know it would be this hard.

i never thought i would miss this place so much. it's really not about the place you are - it's about the people that are with you. i'm going to miss so many people and i appreciate everyone so much for being in my life. i feel so blessed to count so many amazing people that are close to me. i love you all so much, i can't even type because i can't see through my tears.

i never thought this day would come ;-( i am excited for my journey but pieces of my heart are being left behind.

i won't really have regular access to a computer while i am on the road but i'll try to update when i can! until next time loveys!!!

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I WON TICKETS TO SEE BRITNEY!!!!

nobody@vox.com(mystique) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:05:05 -0400

OMFG!!!!!!! apparently i entered some contest online through KC101 and won tickets to see Britney at Madison Square Garden in NYC TOMORROW NIGHT!!!! they called me today while i was at work!!!

i am so freakin psyched!!!! my sister brianne is coming down from boston to go to the show with me - she has never seen britney before!!! prepared to be amazed, brianne!!! my boss is letting me leave early tomorrow so we have plenty of time to catch the train into the city and i am coming in late on thursday - yessss!

i am seriously so astounded and awed!!! this is like the tenth time i've won tickets to something from an online contest on the radio in the past two years - i seriously lost count of how many times i have won things, its getting a bit ridiculous!

what a FABULOUS way to end my time here on the east coast! going out with a bang with britney!!!!

WHOO HOO I CAN'T WAIT TILL TOMORROW!!!

you best believe that i am wearing my outfit again for this concert! this is britney's last concert that she is playing in NYC with the Circus tour! maybe i will make her website again??? one can only hope!! look out for me NYC!!!

BRITNEY.COM

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Michelle's Shameless Photo Of The Week #88

nobody@vox.com(mystique) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:08:31 -0400

past michelle's shameless photos

Laughing

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Snoop D. O. Double G

nobody@vox.com(mystique) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:02:32 -0400

on august 8th, will and i drove to mansfield, ma to the Comcast Center (also known as Great Woods) to see the Blazed & Confused Tour with the one...the only...SNOOP DOGG!!!!!! it has been a lifelong dream of mine to catch my favorite rapper in concert. i planned this event months in advance but unfortch some things came up so my friends julie, mikala and katie couldn't make it up there. i was a bit bummed about that because this was my last concert on the east coast so i wanted to make it really special and have lots of my friends around. even though they didn't make it, we still managed to have fun. luckily we were able to find takers for two of the three tickets we had left so my sister brianne and her wife yami came, and then they brought along two of their friends.

brianne, yami & kevin tailgating

will & yami

who wears a michael bolton t-shirt to a snoop concert??

this bag of cookies was a neccesity - def needed our munchies, haha!

inside the concert - love this pic!

"green man" made an appearance - we laughed our asses off! (if you don't know this reference then check out it's always sunny in philadelphia!)

group shot!

the huge crowd

mickey avalon was one of the openers for the concert - and we were so surprised because STEPHEN MARLEY was the other opener! we had no idea - it was so sweet! he played most of bob's hits and it was a perfect way to get us psyched for snoop!

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snoop starting his set!!!

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me (& random dude) obviously pumped for snoop!

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snoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooop!

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drop it likes its hot!!! it was awesome - he sang all of his classics!

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and da brat showed up!!!

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literally blown away by snoop

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at one point snoop shouted to the audience, "hold up your lighters if you're getting your smoke on!" this was PRACTICALLY everyone in the audience holding up their lighters!

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i love how these pictures came out!!!

snoop played such a great set - he played all my favorite songs! also, i have been to other rap concerts where the main rapper has about twenty people of his entourage on the stage, also hollering into the microphones (i'm looking at you 50 cent!) and you can't even tell who is actually rapping. snoop had NONE of that - it was him and only him on the stage spitting it (well aside from when da brat made her brief appearance)! his skills are still impeccable and he brought the house down. he still is and he will always remain my favorite rapper!

after snoop, this band called slightly stoopid came on. i had never heard of them before but they were a good, chill jam band. but i must admit that i had to lay down on the blanket for their set cause i was so exhausted by then - def was blazed and confused by the end of the night!

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Lynnieloo's 26th Birthday

nobody@vox.com(mystique) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:51:46 -0400

will and i traveled down to manhattan during july to celebrate my BFF lynnieloo's birthday. we had such a great night!!!

first we started off going to a mexican restaurant and then we went back to lynnie's apt to cut the birthday cake!

this is the cake that i made for lynnie! i had to lug it all the way from connecticut in the car, on the train and in the taxi but luckily it made it there safely! lynnie had only one request for her cake and that was that it HAD to be pink! i like how the pink came out but i don't like the rest of the cake. i wanted to get really fresh flowers but i was pressured into buying these from the florist but they were tinged with brown. it made me mad that the cake was ruined by not getting fresh enough flowers but i guess it is a learning experience for next time. i also think my border came out really sloppy. oh wells, lynnie loved it so thats all that matters i guess!

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this is the underwear i got from the britney spears store for lynnie's present - i bought a pair for myself and for mikala too (early bday present for mikala, her bday is in september).

ryan, mikala and katie pre-partying

lynnie enjoying her cake - she so cute!

then we went to koreatown and got a private karaoke room - it was such a blast!!! luckily the time limit in the room was 2 hours because i started losing my voice by the end of it!

the boys singing some crazy german song

nicole (lynnie's sister) and me singing single ladies - thats me trying to do my beyonce move

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love this pic!!!

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work it

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don't stop believin!!!

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it's britney bitch!!! center of attention even when they're up against the wall!

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our next stop was a spanish alternative dance party that we found in the bottom of a bar.

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group shot!

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we had never heard of spanish alternative music before but it sounded like disco music but with spanish lyrics!

the boys!

me & my girlies

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all of us!!!

we didn't get home until 4:30AM that night! it was crazy fun but also exhausting! guess i can't do too many nights like that in my old age anymore haha

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we woke up the next morning to a delicious breakfast made by the birthday girl!

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mimosas and bloody marys!

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the gang at breakfast!

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snuggling with lynnie's doggy frankenstein

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snuggling w/ franks and mikala

aside from my family, i will miss lynnie & mikala the most when i leave. they have been my best friends for so long, i don't know what i will do without them :-( but i'm glad that we got these moments together. i have been really trying to cherish the time i spend with my them before i leave because i do not know when i will see them again. i love you both so much!!!!!!!!!!!!! can't type about it anymore or i will start crying ;-(

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