Ready for Roma!

We leave for Europe tonight! :D First stop: ROMA! 

How excited am I? 

A family vacation is long overdue and I'm thrilled to head back to the city of Roman Holiday. What a chic movie that was! I love Audrey Hepburn movies. Will be blogging weekend updates from Europe! Stay tuned! xo

They're here!

My weekend went by too quickly! As do most weekends in my life. My Dad & brother arrived late on a Friday night after J & I gorged ourselves on $2 burger sliders and beer on St Mark's. He promptly passed out on my couch while watching a hockey game.

Saturday - was bright & early for a walk about town through and around, EV, LES, Soho, Nolita & Chinatown and a visit to J in his pimpin' pad in Midtown West - we ended the day with Robin Hood & Korean BBQ.

Sunday - was brunch at Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles, apartment viewing & an early dinner at Per Se that left all of us extremely full and in food coma for the rest of the night.

I hope your weekend was as full of food & walking as mine was!

Cavalia's in town next month

I saw their show schedule and just about died. Cavalia is coming to NJ next month and I have been waiting and waiting for this show to come to town! Months have gone by and they have been in Miami and Charlotte and now finally, they are in NJ! Close enough for me to venture!!! YAY!!! I just sent Jordan an email in ALL CAPS if we can go. I AM SO GOING!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Rockin' the rollercoasters

This weekend was eventful and productive! We kicked it off by heading to Six Flags Great Adventure & Safari with some friends. We had told them that we had never been to a Six Flags before and they organized a trip out to Jackson, NJ for a day of rollercoaster fun! So bright & early on Saturday morning, we loaded up in a rental and headed out!

We rode a grand total of 7 rollercoasters - including the world's tallest & fastest one, Kingda Ka. IT WAS AMAZING!!! Incredible crazy but fun at the same time. We bit the bullet and decided to do the craziest one first - and I was sweating like a pig! Clammy palms and butterflies in my tummy - I was so anxious and excited at the same time. I'm so glad I did not chicken out and survived the most insane ride EVER. For those of you not familiar with Kingda Ka - check this out! Other rides of note included: Nitro (which we rode twice!), El Toro (3rd fastest and steepest wooden rollercoaster in the world), Bizarro, Superman: Ultimate Flight.

We hopped on rollercoaster after rollercoaster and slotted in some boardwalk games & lunch. Jordan lucked out on the milk can game and won a HUGE prize and so did our friends! We also did the drive thru Safari which was quite fun, because the animals come right up to your car to say hello. Like this giraffe:

It was such a fun day. We ended it off with Japanese yummies from Mitsuwa and passing out from sheer exhaustion and excitement. Sunday was spent sleeping & eating in large amounts :) 

I hope your weekend was as thrilling & fun as mine.

Does your man look at you like this?

"Every woman deserves a man who will look at her each day like she is the most amazing woman he's ever laid eyes on."

Summer Reads & Anticipation

 

I just purchased my reads for my upcoming Summer trip to Europe with the family, along with a travel guide for my solo trip to Frankfurt :) VERY EXCITED!!!! :D Wheee!!! Barnes & Noble, please send them along quickly! Thank you!!

Faux Glow

I booked my very first full-body airbrush tan 2 weeks from now, which will essentially be 2 days before I'm off to Europe for Summer vacay with the family! I'm kinda apprehensive and psyched at the same time, I've never had a spray tan in my life & have no idea what I look like tan! I have been blessed with very pale, milky white skin thanks to my Shanghainese roots, which results in freckles and burns when exposed to the sun and sneers from friends & family commenting my thighs are too bright for their eyes in my shorts! :P Hence, I thought I'd give this airbrush organic tan thing a go, since Lifebooker Loot was offering it on special for a great price!


So wish me luck & pray I don't come out orange but rather, sunkissed & glowing and ready to rock the streets of Rome!