So, because I know I should be writing Central America posts, and not posts about my current life, I am not posting at all. This is a problem. Today I decided that I am going to post whenever I feel like it, about whatever I feel like talking about – and when I do get around to writing about my most amazing trip, I will backdate the posts (so they’re all together), and make a comment in my current post to go glace back at it.

My last two months have been crazy, as life generally is for me. I have done lots of awesome things and lots of settling in things as well. Since I am bad at writing about past things, I will just tell you about this weekend.

S. and I were going to leave the city behind and go up to the White Mountains for an exciting adventure for the fun three day weekend. However, this was also the plans of a billion other people, and we couldn’t find anywhere to stay (I did receive some kind emails informing me that place have been booked for 6 months for this weekend). I guess there’s this phenomena called leaf-peeping that people who are not used to colorful trees drive long hours to partake in. Our weekend plan turned into a day trip plan. But that was also foiled after sitting in in traffic for about two and a half hours to go thirty miles. Our bailout plan was much better – Disc Golf! Somehow S. had anticipated this awfulness and had planned accordingly. We played for a while, then went on a search for books, coffee and a blanket to lay in the sun. After some driving around, that plan somehow changed into Starbucks and a tax free mall with a Target and pretzels. Again we tried to plan (movie up in NH), but we ended up driving back to the city and hiking around a resevoir. We did end up getting to a second run theater to see The Dark Night (oh… Heath Ledger was so good at being creepy!). All in all, it was completely different from anything we planned, but it was quite nice at the same time. Sometimes those days that wildly deviate from the plan are just as satisfying!

Yesterday we actually carried out our plan for the day. We gathered up the books we acquired the day before (well, S. had school reading, I had fun reading), and trekked downtown to the park. On the way we passed through an Oktoberfest parade, we walked half way around the city to find acceptable picnic food, and we had to stop in at Macy*s to buy a blanket. Each of these things added to the adventure of the day. Sometimes the city is a nice place to tromp around. Especially in the beautiful fall weather. We spent the evening giving a tour of my alma mater to some of S.’s extended family, and going out to our favorite dessert place with them. Again, a nice day!

Today we were much more low-key. We again had plans for great adventure (rock climbing), but S. wasn’t feeling well, it was cold, and we didn’t want to deal with traffic again! S. had a conference call in the AM, so I wandered around campus for a while, and ended up watching a live broadcast of a speech Mr. Bill Gates was giving in the next building over. Cool! I really loved hearing him speak about his new foundation – he made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. It made me want to persue a business degree so I could combine the awesomeness of the mental health field with the awesomeness of business. Maybe I can someday join forces with S. on some cool business venture.  I could talk about this talk in much more detail, but since S. didn’t get to hear it, I already spent all of brunch telling him about how much I loved it, so I may have used up all of my enthusiasm about it. But I did like it – a LOT.

Here is the cutie on the big screen