Day 2

We spent the 2nd day at Harvard. Well actually we started in Harvard but i was playing with the gps and managed to wander us down to the Harvard Observatory in search of a geocache. We found it, hooray! But my shoe was attacked by a bug. Aleta sent a picture to her husband via camera phone and he told us it was a butterfly larvae.

Then we got lost on the way home.

Day 1

I picked up Aleta from the airport and dragged her back to my home where we dropped off her stuff changed into walking shoes/

We ended up on the Freedom Trail, got distracted by a shiny sign, and ended up donating blood. Aleta had not slept, we had not eaten, it was ridiculously hot, and we were involved in a strenuous activity. So of course it was a good day to get our blood sucked out.

We donated blood.

We started to walk and i found QUENEPAS in a little farmer's market! They WERE SO GOOD.

Then we walked a few miles, climbed up freaking 300 stairs into the Bunker Hill Monument.

I was starting to get woozy (she was too) so we walked down the 300 stairs and laid in the grass for awhile.

This past weekend

Lyan Albino and Aleta Trippe in 1997.


Lyan Albino and Aleta Genzel in 2008.

Not much has changed. :) Aleta has been one of my best friends since the 7th grade. But the last time we saw each other was in 1998, a crazy random happenstance of a meeting at a JROTC competition, before she moved to New York. We've managed to keep in touch through phone calls once or twice a year and then emails for the past 2 or 3 years. But we finally decided not to let another 10 years go by before we met up again. So i picked her up at the airport on friday morning. :D

Suburban Dreams

When i am blessed enough to have my own little house on my own bit of land i'm totally putting one of these in my flower bed. No creepy gnomes or plastic pink flamingoes for me, no sir.

Braaaaaaains. Nomnomnomnom.

Jars

Jam jars store jam.







I, however, have a Moon Jar.





I love my moon jar!

Sports

This place is so crazy about their sports. Patriots, Red Sox, and Celtics get all kinds of love year round. I have never seen so many grown men wearing jerseys in one city. I know Orlando loves the Magic but its nothing compared to the obsession that Boston has with their teams. I have felt a bit uncomfortable, in fact, walking around here and not caring at all for any Boston team whatsoever. Like a fraud. Actually i feel like I'm back in Gainesville and i don't own any Florida Gators gear. I do own a Red Sox t shirt that was given to me for my birthday but know very little about the player whose number i wear. Apparently he's very handsome and the ladies love him. But i don't really care about these teams.

Until i found out about one today. The New England Revolution is so far #1 in the eastern standings! We have a Soccer team! AND a good one!

I'm going to become a total Revolution groupie!

GOOOOAAAALLLLLL

Geocaching

Went geocaching today. Sooo ridiculously hot outside but at least our hunting sent us into the shaded woods. I shouldn't have worn shorts tho, my legs are torn up from the tree i half climbed to find the last cache.



I took a pair of Smith and Wesson Shooting Glasses from the cache and immediately had to put them on. Those glasses, combined with the ammo box geocache, made me look very suspicious indeed.



A watch!