Tonight is our Championship Game.

The Upper Peninsula

I write this to honor the weekend I froze my ass off in Upper Peninsula with my two friends Laura and Colleen. The Upper Peninsula, or tenderly referred to by locals as the UP is full of natural wonders from sandstone rock formations to large waterfalls that you can hike to in a day. We hiked bouncing from one gorgeous site to the next, fresh air, and discovered Midwestern beauty.

These gals make all sorts of fun and silliness even on a cold weekend that felt like Boston in November. Colleen sang sentences as if they were Broadway show tunes while posing for pictures. Laura and I talked and talked about food. Most of the time my head is so fascinated by what's going on with these two, I don't even notice my surroundings.

Because of the bad weather our plans to camp out turned into getting a cabin. The cabin was adorable - I mean everything: tiny beds, mini chimney, moose and bear curtains and so comfortably. We loved our little cabin.

Camping at Picture Rock National Lakeshore

I'm going camping this weekend in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
My friends Laura and Colleen found a place called Pictured Rock right along Lake Superior.

We won! Next week is our championship game against JP Morgan.

Softball

Tonight is our play-off game. We are going against
a local gym. Let's see, a publishing house vs scowling U-bar mustached men who work out for a living. I wonder whose going to win.

Biking in Boston

Before getting a bike, I was hopeless getting around on my own. Couldn't find parking if I drove. Running late to work because of subway delays. You know what I mean? What I didn't realize was that biking broadens the world of OPTIONS. And oh what a magical world that is. There are a gajillion ways to have fun riding a bike and we deserve to explore them all.

At first I was nervous to bike around a city notorious for bad drivers but I found through being a bike rider there are many people that are helpful and watch out for us. I bike through parks, Downtown, and to restaurants- contemplated how certain routes will take me to what destination, wondered what biking across to Roxbury would feel like. I must have circled Boston a dozen times. And then it dawned on me that bikes, they are for US to have fun. No other destination is necessary. So no matter what my plan is to bike to work or to a party, I definitely learn a lot more about my city when biking through it.

Last Weekend.

(Katie at Le Pain Quotidien)

The greatest time I had in New York City was five years ago with my best friend Katie. It was our first time in NYC and the smell of Polish donuts in Green Point, loud sweaty clubs in the Greenwich Village, and plague of rats in the subway made New York an adventure.

Last weekend she was in town for the International Gift Show and I came up to meet her. This time around we shopped (for her work) and ate out with some of her vendors. We even got to go out with one of our friends from Japan who last year toured us around Tokyo in her convertible mini cooper.