Arriving in the Big Apple

Yep, that's me in Central Park my first day in the City! I moved here May 2, the day after Emily's wedding. My mom came with me to help me move in and figure everything out! We checked into our hotel and did a lot of exploring for about 5 days.

We spent some time in Central Park, of course, and one day we woke up early and waited in line for the Regis & Kelly Show! We ended up getting to be in the audience and got a picture of both of us with Kelly. I look super disgusting, though. The guest on the show that day was Tom Selleck and we were pretty excited about it.

While my mom was here we also did some of the New York musts such as: getting frozen yogurt from Bloomingdales, celebrity spotting(we saw Leslie Mann in Barney's), shopping at Zara, and most important...moved into my new apartment! My apartment is so adorable. It's on West 4th st. in between 6th Avenue and McDougal. It's half a block from Washington Square Park and NYU.

My mom left and on May 7 I started my internship at FamilyTravelForum.com. It's a travel website geared towards helping families find fun places to vacation. Some of what I do includes writing current event articles on things like the BP oil spill, protests in Thailand, and the Nashville flood; feature articles on resorts, hotels and other vacation spots; grade essays for a teen travel writing essay the website hosts; go to press events and get to eat delicious food. Overall it's pretty much a dream come true. I'm finally fulfilling my dream of living in New York City as a working girl! :) That is a picture of the people that work in my office.

As soon as I moved in I met my roommates Bryndee and Hyeku. They are both working in NYC in Finance and Advertising full-time. I spent a lot of time with Hyeku, her younger brother, and his friend my first week in the city. They took me to Grimaldi's Pizza, across the Brooklyn Bridge, to the MoMa to see a shocking gallery of Marina Abromovic, to La Esquina tacos( the most delicious tacos and grilled corn I've ever had in my life) and a lot of other fun things. After a week they all left, and my new roommate Louise moved in! She's from Denmark and we had a lot of fun while she was here!

A little adventure

The day we took our last finals (aka the day i bombed my humanities final), Eric and I took off on a legendary road trip to his home town of Vacaville, California. I met his rad family and fell in love with his sister's dog Tippy (whom I sadly have no photo of).
The next day he took me for my first glimpse of San Francisco! It was so beautiful I loved it.
We took a little boat to Alcatraz, which was EXTREMELY interesting. We spent the whole day there and ended up randomly meeting up with my parents for dinner because they just happened to be in San Francisco that weekend. They took us out to a delicious dinner of oysters and other fancy foods.

The rest of the time I spent in California was awesome. We went to Dillon Beach one day with Eric's sister Becca and her boyfriend Nate, but it was too windy so we didn't stay very long. After a wonderful visit to Vacaville we drove back to Provo and said our goodbye's so I could be off on my own adventures.
My next stop was in Ohio where my dear, dear friend Emily Pena became Emily Roemisch. I couldn't be happier for those two. I had an amazing time at their wedding and am so extremely excited for them to FINALLY start their life together. For three years I've been listening to this girl talk about Dave and how she can't wait to marry him. So adorable.

From Ohio I flew straight to New York City: my new home for the summer! Yep! Thats right! I did end up getting an internship and finding a place to live, so i packed up my life and moved to New York not knowing a single soul (or so I thought). My real adventures are yet to begin.