it’s october already? so much has gone on since i last posted… new job, new commute, fun trip to new york, cool trip to vermont, the best overnight party ever, new hair cut, started boot camp, ran 3.1 miles for the komen race for the cure, have had fabulous weekends, got a year older AND gave my blog a personalized make over (in honor of halloween)… i don’t know where to start!

so where do i start? catching up via writing might be next to impossible. so instead i’ve posted a few photos. to help back track a little…

weekend reunion in ny the weekend of august 25th camilo and i drove down to yonkers ny for the weekend for him to reconnect with two friends (dan and klaus-brothers) that he hadn’t seen in years-ten to be exact. saturday we took the train into new york, checked out the moma and the mocp, and watched the king of kong: fistful of quarters. the highlight of the trip (aside from meeting these two new cool people) was seeing camilo with long hair (and i mean pony tail long) in a home movie klaus brought with him from over then years ago for us to watch and laugh at.

weekend trip to an iron pour performance sept 1st weekend, my friend lisa and i decided to take a weekend trip to check out an iron pour performance at a steel scrap yard up in rutland, vermont. an experience we both hadn’t a clue of what to expect-but once there, it was amazing. large crowd, sounds of flame torches, fire burning, metal melting, and a display of sparks that the images i shot don’t do it justice. the highlight of the trip (aside from it being a girls only trip-always fun-shadow legs) was watching a pig race at the fair the next day…ok no i’m kidding-although that was pretty funny… really the whole weekend was a highlight; peaceful scenery, wonderful weather, definitely a trip worth taking again!

bbq party in swampscott sept 8th. this was on the saturday we all thought would be the last official ‘beach day’ of the year. so this morning started off with an impromptu trip to hull beach with lisa while camilo drove luis over to new hampshire for him to buy his fist new apply lap top. upon our return to the apt in the early afternoon, camilo, luis and i headed off to swampscott for a fun filled evening bbq at irina’s parents house (they were out of town). i managed to take a few pics you’ll find here, but brief highlights were: bbq, round the world ping pong, jagermeister and greygoose shots, dancing, more ping pong, ‘hot’ belt, endless laughter, dance some more, hula hoop & jump roping, midnight dunk at the beach, more dancing till we couldn’t dance no more and almost everyone was asleep…morning coffee with friends.

3.1 mile run i signed up for the race for the cure run for sunday sept. 23rd… a week after i started my boot camp. not it’s been years since i even try to run more than a mile-so to be quite honest-i wasn’t even sure how i was going to pull it off. lucky for me, on the first day of boot camp we had to run the mile and got timed (clocked in at 11+min-okay for the frist time in years no?) anyway, i somehow pulled off a 37:38. not a champions time, but none the less, under 45 min (avg of 12min per mile)-which was my goal.

also, i’ve created a web gallery with my mac account where you can see the pics i never got to post from both my miami trip back in july, and my colombia trip back in august. (so sorry about the lorem ipsum-just holding a spot for me to update tomorrow…)