our european extravaganza.
By Ally 3 Comments
In hopes of not actually forgetting this entire European excursion, I’m sharing the photos and highlights from our autumn trip to London, France, and Switzerland. Eric had to go to London and France for work (tough stuff, but somebody has to do it), so I tagged along and made a grand little vacation out of it.
London
This was our first visit to London, and pretty much everything we knew going in was from either Harry Potter or The Crown. So here’s Eric on that bridge from Harry Potter:
The weather was pretty “meh” while we were there, so the photos aren’t particularly gorgeous or anything, but I will say that I liked London a lot more than I expected. Not being a big city loving gal, I was surprised how much I enjoyed walking around the city.
And here’s me in front of Buckingham Palace (obviously heavily featured on The Crown):
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all around the timberline trail.
By Ally 2 Comments
August 7 marked our ninth wedding anniversary! According to Google, “pottery” is the traditional ninth anniversary gift (or, the more modern option: “leather”). Instead of those fine goods, I suggested we go on a 40-ish mile backpacking trip around Mount Hood. It says a lot about Eric’s love for me that he quickly agreed and…
one giant catch up.
By Ally 6 Comments
Well, it’s been a heck of a long time since I’ve posted on this thing. I’ve realized that without the ol’ blog, I have a really hard time remembering anything that we’ve done. On our anniversary last week, we had to scroll through our phone photos to even remember what we did to celebrate last…
montana.
By Ally 3 Comments
Let’s jump back to October, please. Back in the prime days of autumn, we took a little vacation to Montana. When I told co-workers where we were going, literally every response was, “Montana? Do you have family there?” As if there would be no reason to visit this particular state without the pull of family…
vista ridge.
Life is breezing on by, as it does. The last time we went hiking, we sweat it out in tank tops or short sleeves. Granted, it has been a while since we’ve hiked, thanks to Eric’s travel schedule and my penchant for jobs that require my nights and weekends. But our most recent trip to…
independence day at mount jefferson.
As you may have noticed from my general absence on the internet, our adventures have been a bit more few and far between than they once were. I’ve been reminiscing about Eric’s grad school days when we would have a mini-adventure every weekend (you can check out a particularly good “Ally Day” here, if…
we’re still alive!
By Ally 2 Comments
Greetings, old friends! My drafts folder tells me I started writing this post back in March, but apparently I’ve just given up on timeliness and actually finishing things. But here we are, at the end of June, still very much alive. I’m going to play an insane game of catch up and power through everything…
suttle lake lodge.
Remember when the concept of “hygge” took over the internet? I jumped on the bandwagon a couple of years ago, fully embracing the idea of cozy time: candles, blankets, oversized sweaters, a fireplace (only in my dreams- in my reality, we’ve occasionally cast the yule log on the ol’ TV). Sign me up. But in…
a long weekend around the mountain.
By Ally 7 Comments
Am I about to write about something during the same month that it occurred? Heck yes, I am. Progress, my friends. Progress. Eric’s parents came to visit over Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, and we lucked out with unusually dry and sunny weather for an Oregon January.
wrapping up 2017.
By Ally 2 Comments
I am not much for new year’s resolutions, but I hoping that this will be the last time I do a mega-wrapping-up-a-season-of-life-because-I-got-so-behind-on-everything-giant-photodump-post. Our lives are full and fun, and I want so badly to remember everything (and if I don’t photograph it or write it down, it’s like it never happened), so here’s to being a little bit…
autumn.
By Ally 3 Comments
Well, here we are. Mid-December, and I’m finally getting around to sharing everything we did this fall. I’m concluding a year of terrible blogging with the fourth seasonal post (see winter, spring, and summer, if you’d like). I have big ambitions of being better at documentation in the new year, but for now, we’ll all…
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