Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Halloween at Disney

Earlier this  month, my friend Haley and I went to Walt Disney World--my first trip there! (Side note: I highly recommend going on a trip to Disney with your Disney vacation planner, and I also highly recommend that your Disney vacation planner is Haley.) Our trip coincided with my birthday, Epcot's 35th anniversary, the Epcot Food & Wine Festival, and all of the Halloween festivities. I have some other posts planned about our trip, but since today is Halloween and all, I thought I would talk a little bit about Halloween at Disney. 

I'm one of those people who's always been sort of torn on Halloween; there are things I love about it (like ghosts, witches, dressing up in costumes, and general Victorian-style haunted creepiness) and things I hate about it (like clowns, being truly afraid, and slasher-style gore). Basically I'm more of a Hocus Pocus kinda gal than a Friday the 13th kinda gal, is what I'm saying....which means Disney Halloween is right up my alley.

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Brunch Club

One of my favorite things I've done since moving to Kansas City is starting a brunch club with some gal friends from work. There are so many incredible restaurants in the city and surrounding suburbs; when we moved here three years ago, I immediately started making a list of all the recommendations I would get and places I would see online. Tyler isn't much of a "brunch person," as he says, though, and honestly our tastes in restaurants in general differs pretty drastically. Me, on the other hand--I will judge an entire restaurant on its brunch (and whether or not they have bottomless mimosas....). Thankfully, I quickly formed some really solid friendships, and my gals are more than happy to join me on my quest to try every brunch in the city.  We generally get together at least once a month, and even have a spreadsheet of all the places we have tried and want to try--in case you thought this was some casual get-together or something. :) We even have matching Brunch Club shirts, so you know it's official. Here are some photos from our favorite meals: 

Monday, October 16, 2017

Seattle

Over the past couple years, and thanks to the gal in that first picture, Seattle has really become one of my very favorite cities. It's big enough to have lots to do and progressive enough that I don't feel crazy, with lots of small local spots in individual neighborhoods. Layne was such a great tour guide for me last summer that I was able to do the same for Tyler on our trip, even though we only had about a day total in the city. We arrived on a Monday afternoon, and killed some time downtown at Pike Place Market until our Air BnB was ready. Once we found our accommodations and settled in (our hostess was the absolute sweetest!) we met up with Layne at Tacos Chukis for a quick dinner and then grabbed some drinks on the deck at Captain Blacks. We ended up spending the rest of the evening with her and her husband, Brandon, who met up with us for a trip to the University of Washington (for a gorgeous view of Mt. Rainier, below) and drinks & appetizers at Capitol Cider. Capitol Cider is probably one of my favorite spots in the city. I'm not a beer drinker, but I do love a good hard cider, and the black currant lavender cider I had that night will forever be at the top of my list. Mmmm.  

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