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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Filed Under: Europe, hiking, travel Tagged With: England, France, Switzerland
maple shortbread.
Today’s 12 days of Christmas cookies post is dedicated to Canada and our trip to the Great White North back in June. If you’ll recall warmer, drier days with me here for a minute, let’s return to Vancouver Island. Let’s forget about the little triathlon and focus on the Canadian fun. Paddleboarding, backpacking, eating maple…
leavenworth (part 2)- colchuck lake.
By Ally 2 Comments
Our main goal in vacationing in Leavenworth over the Thanksgiving holiday was to do some hiking in Washington’s Cascade Mountains. We both saw hundreds of photos of Colchuck Lake and its blue water this summer, so we hoped to hike up there. Through a little Instagram investigation, we discovered that the winter gates would be…
brown butter pecan sandies with chocolate.
Let’s talk about Christmas movies. I assume that most folks have a list of movies they like to watch each holiday season. I tend to like my holiday movies to lean toward funny, rather than heartwarming, since I spend much of the holiday season crying through Christmas commercials (has anyone seen the one where the…
leavenworth (part 1).
Since Eric and I live too far from our families to visit them for Thanksgiving, we’ve started a tradition of taking a little holiday getaway. So far, they’ve been pretty spectacular. Last year, we visited Joseph, Oregon and the Wallowa Mountains. Two years ago, we camped in the Redwoods of Northern California. This year, we…
chocolate thumbprints with bourbon caramel and sea salt.
By Ally 5 Comments
It’s December! And although I feel like I just put away the butter and sugar from last year’s 12 Days of Christmas Cookies, somehow it’s already time to lead you into another sugar coma. For those of you who are new to the blog, every year, my pal Becca and I bake way too many…
tuesday favorites.
In this season of non-stop rain, there has been (too) much television watching in the Ringer household, and Master of None was a super fun week of our lives. Obviously, some parts are very Aziz Ansari stand-up comedy crass, but other parts are hilarious and sweet and well worth a watch. Because I love books…
a year in Portland.
According to my Timehop (that fun time capsule of embarrassment), it’s been a little over a year since we moved to the big city, which means that one year ago, I was staring down this scene: In the past year, we’ve rearranged the apartment at least 3 times (you can see what it once looked…
mcneil point.
By Ally 3 Comments
I think, maybe, we’re not great at camping. We’re at the point in the season where every weekend might be “the last nice weekend,” so we wanted to fit in one last camping trip before the rain sets in. I like to think of camping as a peaceful, calm, stress-free experience (the Instagram camping experience,…
sweet potato turkey chili.
I think I’m becoming a food television addict. Believe it or not, prior to last week, I never watched cooking shows. As much as I love food, I really hate all of those food competition shows (the commercials, alone, stress me out). I have no interest in watching people sweat, squirm, and endure the ridicule…
around mount hood.
Whenever anyone comes to visit us in Portland, my first instinct is to take them to the Columbia River Gorge. So when Laura was in town last weekend, we did just that. We started with breakfast at Sweedeedee in Portland (get there right when it opens or wait in line forever) before heading to the…
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