This is Halloween..

On October 25 there was a YSA dance for Halloween. The them was, “50’s Sock Hop” Alana and I with the help of a very nice women in our ward made poodle skirts for the dance. But when the time got close, I decided that that was a little to much of the good girl image. SO I turned in my poodle skirt and joined the Pink Ladies. I do like to live on the wild side. I also just bought a fantastic pair of shoes and thought it would be the perfect time to wear them. Alana and I drove 45min. to the dance listening to Grease the whole way up there. Just to get in the spirit of things. The dance was a BLAST and I was on the dance floor the fool hours. The proof that I was getting jiggy wit it was, well, my legs were killing me three days after. But I guess that’s still not very good proof is it now? I guess you’ll just have to trust me.

The next weekend there was another dance/camping thing in Pennsylvania. SO again, Alana and I drove to our destination. This time it was a little further away, 3 hours. I thought I was going to die! It actually was not that bad I just wanted to sound a little dramatic. Although, im not all the way sure that Alana will ever want to be in a car with me over 30 min. tops. Haha. Are we there yet, are we there yet, what about now?? When we drove my Hershey Penn. We rolled the windows down in the car to see if it smelt like chocolate outside, and I didn’t. What a letdown right? The dance was kind of a bust but I did meet some really cool people and that makes it all worthwhile. Everyone at the dance stayed the night in some cabins. They were not nice at all. Just rows of bunk beds squeezed together as tight as possible. But it really was not that bad for me. I did not get to hot or to cold. I stayed he perfect temperature all night. I was also able to finish my book(I will talk about it later).

The next day they had a lot of activities set up for all of us to do. Alana and I decided to try out the zip line. I’m always up for doing something a little fun and crazy. I was so scared when I had to put on my own harness. I do not trust myself! I would much rather have a professional do it for me. Especially when I’m going to be hanging 100 feet of the ground at one point. But I did do it and it was so much fun! Ok, climbing up the later a the beginning was kind of well, terrifying, but in a good way I guess. I would do it again in a sec. Oh, I did play frisbee, but that did not go to well, not because it never went in the direction I threw it but because I broke more than one nail in the process and that I not cool. We left for the journey home at 4, but not before a big group of us stopped and ate at the Cracker Barrel. It was delishious. All in all it was a awesome weekend. I do want to plan a trip to DC. It is only a 4 hour drive and I think it would be lots of fun to go back there.

Falling Leaves

Princeton is so beautiful this time of year. Well, so far every season I have been here has been very pretty. But fall is amazing! Whenever I’m driving I’m always thinking to myself, “I wish so and so could see this” (you can just put your name in there) There are so many trees here. Especially where I live. I’m driving through a little forest everyday to get home. But sense there are so many trees, the pile of leaves are huge! I tried taking a picture with my phone but it does not do it justice. They are lining the streets in my neighborhood. The piles are easily 6 or 7 feet high and go on forever. The color of the trees is pretty darn incredible too. The orange, brown, red, yellow, there like the colors I would want at my wedding some day:)

So this last Saturday, I took Hunter to Hebrew school. I actually watched him all day which was a first to me but I liked it. So anyways, I found the temple where his school was and dropped him off. It’s in New Brunswick and that area is a little ghetto. It’s kind of like the small dirty parts of New York. I had like 2 hours to kill while he was in school, so I went to a Barns and Noble..Is that how you spell it? Anyways, I was looking for some new books to read. I was not going to buy them just find some and write them down so I can go to the library and check them out. I looked at some by Nicholas Sparks and Clare Naylor. I’m very excited to go get them so I can read them. Reading is my new thing. It’s so nice to have a book to pull out whenever you need something to do. Or if you are waiting somewhere by yourself. The next book I actually plan on reading is,” The Other Bolyin Girl” It’s the story of King Henry 8th and his wives. Its 900 hundred pages so it will take me a little longer but that’s fine. Back to My story now. After the book store I went to Panera for a cup of French onion soup and to do a little reading. When it was finely time to pick Hunter up a throw everything away but when I tossed my water glass in it bounced off the edge and the ice flew at this mans head who was sitting at his tabled, minding his own business. I was so mortified and embarrassed that this happened. I just said I am so so sorry and I left before he could really reply. I’m sure my face was bright red.

The rest of the days was pretty layed back. I got Hunter some Mic Dees on the drive home . When we got there we played basket ball and some bored games. Watched a movie and did some computer games. He took a nap which I was very excited about because sometime he will not fall asleep but I had a head ache and wanted to sleep myself. I talked to Joe over Skype which always makes even the best day grander. Hunter and I ordered some pizza and watched Jeopardy. I put him to bed and that was the end of my nigh. It was my time to relax and I sure love to do that.

Happy Birthday to ME:)

Last weekend was my birthday and I was pretty dang excited to be turning 21. I’m not sure why cause you cant really do anything different on that birthday then I could my last one. But then when I was watching some tube, there was all these deals that you could get like staying the weekend in Vegas or hotels in New York and you could not get them unless you were 21. So that’s the reason why I am excited to be 21, I can get extra good deals on random things. I think that is pretty cool if you ask me.

So, I actually had to work on my birthday but I partied before and after. On Thursday, I took the train into New York (the first time by myself, I totally felt 21 haha) and I met up with a friend, Chelsea , that I really had not seen sense high school. So it was so so much fun to see her. She works as an intern at the temple doing international communicating. Or something along that line. I got off the train at Penn Station and was supposed to take the number 1 train up to 66th. I got on the wrong one and ended up at like 14th but no worries, I just grabbed another one and got to the right place. We ate dinner at Applebees on Broadway and then went to see Legally Blond. It was sooo funny. I was laughing the entire time. The only reason I can say I like the movie better is because I love Reese Witherspoon to death. To this day, the songs from that show are in my head.

Friday was my actual birthday. Dina had a show to go to so I had Hunter. Which I fine cause I love when I got to spend any type of one on one time with him. Hunter’s teacher, Dina, and I actually made up a fun schedule for Hunter and I to do when it’s just him and I and im very very very excited about it. Dina got a piece of non chocolate cake and put a candle in it and Hunter sang me happy birthday,. It was so cute. Then she gave me a watch and a gift certificate to an amazing shoe store. She knows me so well all ready. So anyways, After Hunter was in Bed, my friend Alana came over to chill with me. She brought me a cake and it was delish and an IOU that was good for one purse in China Town. If you have ever been there or have heard about it you would understand why I was so excited. It’s like knock off central. Love it! One of the reasons I like it so much out here is because of the friends that I have met. Without them I know that I would be ready to come home a lot sooner.

Saturday, Alana and I had off to New York. We went up to see the Temple and found this nice little place to have lunch. I can’t remember the name, but it was the name of a woman. We then took the subway down to China Town. I was so dang excited to get a new purse, you have no idea. SO after wondering around China Town with no luck at all, we finely get luck with like a little over an hour before are show starts. So we go into some secret rooms and its like heaven. Big brand label purses everywhere! These little rooms can fulfill a girls dream. They certainly fulfilled mine. It was AmAzInG! Alana and I then rush to the subway and make are way back to Broadway. Broadway at night is really a sight to see. Its kind of like Vegas but classier in a different type of way. I love it. And the weather was amazing. To make it even better, all the Navy sailors were there that weekend. They were all gorgeous and I just wanted to..well..we don’t have to talk about that. We made it to our Show (39 steps) it was my first non musical play and it was supper funny. Its kind of like a spoof on Alfred Hitchcock’s movies. All the shows I have seen I would be more than willing to see them a second time. I have to thank Dina’s mom because she always gets me all the tickets , so I have never yet payed for one. So this was my first birthday away from home and I think that It was a really good one. One that I will remember forever. Thank you to everyone who made my 21sy birthday the best 21st birthday a mormon girl can have.

Going for Gold

So, its kind of been awhile sense I have updated this but what’s new right? Haha. So last Saturday (Sept. 27) my friend Alana and I ran a 5K for “The Parkinson Alliance” And when I say a 5K I really mean I mile run. It sounds so much cooler to call it a 5K though. I was happy with myself for running it in the 13 min range. Considering I have not ran the mile sense I was in like the tenth grade I impressed myself..alot. It was an amazing feeling to run for a cause . To be running for the finish line and everyone is cheering for you and to get your cheesy little metal. It was grand. And I felt really cool to wear that paper number. It made it all official and stuff. After all the runs were done they had food for us. Subs and pizza, I ate the sub. It felt weird to eat this greasy piece of pizza after you feel so good for exercising. They had games for the little kids to play and a massage table set up to relax your body I guess. By the time I made it over there they were closed. Bummer.

After the race, Alana and I decided to start working on our poodle skirts for a sock hop that we are going to in October. It’s a young singles activity for everyone in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. I’m way excited to see friends and to meet new people. Well anyways, back to the skirts. Neither I nor Alana know how to really sew that well. But we figured we would give it a try. The felt was really cheap so we would not be out that much money if we messed the whole thing up. So I found out, well I really knew it to begin with but I can sew, I just can’t read patterns. I also do not have the patients for them. The same goes with pinning the fabric before you start. Its so time consuming and I just don’t like it. Needless to say, the farthest we got was cutting out mine and trying to figure out how to thread the sewing machine. Which we never figured it out so we just called it an afternoon. Alana had to be somewhere so I just went to a movie cause I did not really want to go home and I read all the books that I just got. I watched Ghost Town and it was an excellent movie! Definitely one of my favorite’s sense I have been out here.

That Sunday was really neat cause I helped the sister missionaries by picking a girl up that is investigating the church. I sat with all the missionaries at church and that made me feel like I was doing my calling. Just being surrounded by them . She actually decided to get baptized this past week. So Saturday October 4th, I am going to my first baptism here. I’m very excited for it. And to wear the new dress I bought for the occasion. There is this guy that had been investigating for the past month and a half. He is 24 years old. Has a collage degree in criminal justice and just got out from serving four years in the Air Force. He asked me out on a date and we did go out to dinner Monday night. He asked me out to lunch and then to dinner again and a movie. He is kind of date crazy! Every time I’m with him he talks about wanting to get married and start the part of his life. It was kind of funny, He would say something that he wanted, ex. He wants 6 kinds. And If mine was not the same he would change to that. So now he wants 3 kids like me. Haha. I am not really feeling him so I told him I was not interested in dating and yada yada. I did make me feel good that someone wanted to date me. I had not been on a real date sense tenth grade. I think everything must have happened that year. So don’t worry Heather, I’m not getting married at the age of 21!! Haha. Ill wait tell..well..I’m done having fun I guess. Oh yes, something else. I stared working out at my gym with a personal trainer and by body has never hurt so much in my life! But its kind of a feel good hurt in a way, weird I know. I do an hour and a half 3 days a week and its actually kind of fun. Well im off until next time I decide to write. Who knows when that will be.

YAY For Weekends!

After Cleveland we headed back up to the shore to finish out the rest of the week at the beach house. The ocean was crazy rough because of all the hurricanes that are happening. Hanna was the one that affected us the most. So my nan family and I got back to Princeton Friday afternoon and I was so ready to hangout with all my friends and not have to worry about any work. So, Alana, Bobby, and I got together and we went out to dinner at this Mexican restaurant that was in the ghetto part of Princeton. Every town has to have one. But that just means that the food is going to be really good. HaHa. It was not a good night for my friend Bobby. I spilled salsa on his pants through the crack between the table. I spilled my glass of water on him and the glass actually broke, and Alana was trying to be nice and box up his left over food and the dirty spoon flew at him. To say the least we were laughing the whole dinner. Maybe not Bobby. Haha. We then meet up with some other people and went bowling tell around midnight. Then it went back to just being the 3 of us. I guess we can be called, “The Three Amigos’” We headed to Alana’s house to watch a movie. Alana is a nanny as well but she has the whole down stairs of the house to herself so her house is the place to be. It was a greatly needed after a month of non stop work, amazing night fallowed be a crazy, stormy, rainy day. Oh yes, on Sunday i received my first calling ever. I am a ward missionary. Go out with the missionaries and help them teach and i make sure that they have a place to eat dinner when needed. I'm basically there assistant. I'm both excited and nervous about it. But I'm positive that this is what i need to do. Who knows..maybe it will make me want to to go on my own mission to a cool place like Scotland or Australia.

Cleveland My Way

So I’m a little behind on my blog but what’s new right? Anyhow, The weekend of Aug. 29 to Sept. 1 is was in Cleveland Ohio. Dina’s brother lives there and his apartment is right by where they have the Cleveland Air Show. So we flew up there to let Hunter see all the planes. It was actually pretty amazing to see. It looked like the planes were right on top of each other! I really was expecting some sort of accident but there were none. Thank heavens for that. We ate at nothing but the finest restaurants and enjoy that. I like how its smaller portions. Usually..haha. I was there for 4 short days and I feel in love with the city. After I’m done with school and there is nothing going on in my life, I will live there. It was a beautiful city and something is always happening. I absolutely LOVE that its on the water. It had the city feel of New York but 20 times smaller and I can get I nice loft apartment in the down town area for 500 bucks a month. That’s nothing like New York. I don’t think that you can live in the down town are of New York for less than 1500 to 2000 bucks a month. So Cleveland is basically my new destination.

My Europe Adventure

Well, I just got back from my trip to Europe a couple of days ago. I had my doubts about the trip before I left because I have not gone on this type of trip with my nanny family before. I thought it was just going to be a lot of work and I would not have time to enjoy my surroundings. Boy was I wrong.
I hardly felt like I was working the whole time! That kind of made me feel bad but what can I do. I sat by myself in a total different are of the plane. So I just kind of did whatever I wanted to do. Did not have to worry about watching Hunter. I sat by this older woman who did not speak a lick of English and I don’t speak any Italian. So it was pretty quite between us. But there was what looked like a group of high school aged boys coming back home that were not quite at all.

ROME: This was the first stop on my trip. Im glad we stayed here longer because it gave us a chance to get over jet lag.The hotel we stayed in in Rome was pretty darn fancy. I had my own little sleeping area and was glad for that. Rome was really amazing to see. Just for the fact that it’s so old. They have been trying to build a subway system there for years but every time they dig they find ruins and can't did anymore.There is so much history to see there. All the stuff you see you remember seeing in your history books while in school so that made it that much more exciting. We did go to a muse called, “Galleria Borghese” It was actually the Villa of the Borghese family. I would not have mind living there if I did not have to clean it and there was air conditioning. It really sank in here, in Rome, that I really was in Europe.We were here for just over 3 days.

FLORENCE: was fun because it reminded me a lot of Venice. Just without all the water. We had a tour guide walk us all over. She was excellent and somehow started talking about the church. Thats always scary but a good thing i guess. For lunch we ate at Napoleon’s sister’s house. It was gorgeous! The food was ok but that did not even matter cause of where we were eating. We also took a tour of a Jewish Temple, sense everyone I was with is Jewish. It’s so interesting and different to be around them cause we believe in something very opposite then they do. They do not believe that they killed Christ and that’s the opposite of what I believe. So I always feel kind of like im the bad guy thats blaming them when they talk about it. Someone in the group actually brought that up and my hart skipped a beat. They were talking about all the hard times and persecution they have gone through. Someone brought me into the conversation saying that me, being mormon understands this because we went through the same thing. The persecution and what not. It made me feel a lot better that I was looking less like the bag guy for believing what I do cause the mormons had to go through the same type thing.


POROFINO: Cute little fishing village. It looked liked it belonged in Disney Land. It was picture perfect. We just did some shopping for a couple of hours then headed back to the ship. The weather was fantastic and the water was such a bright blue. This is the first place we had to take a tender from the cruse ship to the dock. That was a wild boat ride. Whats weird is that i think i do better on small boats that make it a rough ride then big ships were you can feel the gentel rocking that eventually makes you dizzy and a little sick. Humm..

CORSICA: Is in France. Just in case you needed a brush up on your geography. There was nothing particularly amazing about this town. It’s part of the French Rivera. It’s the birth place of Napoleon. That was actually kind of funny. This town had his pictures everywhere! Statues in every store. It’s like the one thing this town has to make it stand out to tourism and they milk it for everything they got. We did go swimming at a topless beach. Its not like we looked for it but I’m pretty sure you won’t find one in France that’s not. That was way different then what I’m used to.haha. The water was amazing. Cristal clear, and the perfect temperature. I did not get attacked by any jelly fish or sharks so it made it even move wonderful..haha

MALLORCA & BARCELONA: This is Spain, just fyi. We did not do a lot in Mallorca. We did some shopping. But I really can’t afford the places they shop, so I do a lot of window shopping. We went to a food store that was really cool cause I recognized a lot of the things but everything was in Spanish. And I just enjoy shopping for food. Well, it was cool for me to see. Im not sure other poeple would be excited about it. Barcelona was one of my favorite places. I loved how they mix there History with so much modern stuff. I felt like I could maybe live there. And they speak spanish there and that reminded me of home. There is an artist/architect that’s lived there named Gaudi and his work was incredible. He designed random buildings around town and this amazing park. His buildings there were so cohesive with nature. The curves of his building and the colors. It was really neat. He also did a cathedral there that was like none I’ve ever seen. It kind of reminded me of the Wizard of Oz for some reason. Maybe it’s because it looks like it was melting. Gaudi was hit by a train and died before he was able to finish it. So they are still working on it today. It’s all being payed for by the local towns people and tourists who come and see it.

MONTI CARLO: Is in Monaco which is like the second smallest country in Europe. The smallest would be Lichtenstein and I have been there to prove it. This is the cleanest place I have ever been to in Europe. It was almost like being in a hospital. I think all the wealthy people in the world live here or vacation here. Everything is over the top fancy. I have never seen so many nice cars all at the same time in my life! I could not afford to do any shopping here but we did look around. We went inside this shopping mall with a grand marble staircase and chandeliers handing from the ceiling. Insane. We stopped by the famous casino and took some pictures. They filmed the last James Bond movie there and I’m sure many others have been.

AMSTERDAM: So this was a surprise trip for me. I was no a different flight coming home then my nanny family. I was supposed to switch plans in Amsterdam but my plane leaving France was late so I missed my connecting flight in Amsterdam. The next flight was not tell the next day. So I was all by myself in Amsterdam and I loved it! I was on my own schedule and could do whatever I wanted to do. So I took a bus to my hotel to get my room and to see what it looked like. I asked the girls at the front deck where I should go if I only have one night. They showed me where I should go and how to get there. I took the bus back to the airport so that I could get on a train to get into town. I was trying to figure out how to buy a train ticket at this machine when these two guys came up to me and asked if I spoke English. I said yes and we all got to talking and to make a long but amazing story short, I hung out with them all night long. It was the most amazing night ever! We did not do much but walk around, see the town, go out to dinner but it was still so much fun. I got back to my hotel around 2am. It was a grand 8 hours of my life.
I did finely make it back home after a canceled flight and switching airlines. I can’t say the same for my luggage. Half of it made it back with me and the other came 2 days later. It was a great trip and one I will remember forever. I will also never forget my one unexpected night in Amsterdam. A bad situation turned into a great adventure.

Pens and Needles

This is where George Washington did the crossing at the Delaware
Friday..Alana and I along with one of her nanny kids drove to Pennsylvania to visit some museums and the George Washington Crossing at the Delaware River. It was a really neat experience. Standing on the same ground where the first president of the United States had been standing (he has the fist..right?). I love learning about our history. In any way, shape, or form I love it! We took a tour and let me fell you something..I think that a tour guide makes al the difference in making it fun. Ours had done the tour one to many times. He was kind of dull and did not seem to have the passion in history to make it a fantastic tour. So the tour itself kind of felt like I was in school and there was going to be test after. But it was still amazing to be there and see everything.

This is the picture of them crossing the Delaware River

So after all his touring was over, we worked up quite an appetite so we drove about 9 miles to this town called New Hope. It was such a pretty drive. The whole time I kept thinking to myself how much my mom would love this area. It was green and the homes were beautiful. I’m taking a wild guess and am going to say that it was horse country cause they were everywhere. It was like looking through a magazine. We ended the day eating at this place called, “Cock n’ Bull” it was really yummo. I cant wait to have the chance to eat there again. It was a great day and another great experience to remember.

This is Georgies boat that he used to cross the Delaware River