I think every horse person wants to go to Vienna. I’ve been fortunate to get to go twice. My first trip was with school, and I skipped out on a scheduled activity to have an afternoon to myself at the Spanish Riding School museum. The second time I went with Tim, and was able to see the morning exercises. Unfortunately, we couldn’t book a stable tour like I had hoped… so that just means I need to go to Vienna…
Today I celebrate another year spent with my ‘horse husband’. It’s four years of marriage for us (and almost 9 total) and we’ll celebrate our “fruit and flowers” anniversary this year. My husband is turning into a pro at funny anniversary gifts. For the 2nd “Cotton” anniversary he got me a cotton t-shirt that said “It’s my 2nd anniversary and all I got was this t-shirt”, a cotton candy maker and a cotton saddle pad. This year for “fruit and…
When I watched The Grand Budapest Hotel, I was hoping it would be about Budapest since that’s one of my favorite European cities. Alas, I was disappointed in the subject matter – so this blog post will have to suffice as my stroll back into travel nostalgia. Fun fact, did you know Budapest is actually two different cities separated by a river? It’s really Buda and Pest. Tim and I went together in 2008 right after Christmas as part of an…
The first stop of our 2008 winter European tour was a bit unusual. Tim and I flew into Frankfurt, which is a huge European hub of travel. That’s not important in itself, but we were fortunate enough to have a German friend of ours pick us up at the airport and drive us to his hometown – Braunfels, Germany. Braunfels is a small town of about 11,000 people that’s located northwest of Frankfurt. Honestly, I was so damn jetlagged I…
I interrupt your regularly scheduled Monday so I can bitch about a hipster who I think may be currently plotting my demise. But first, let’s back up a little. Originally this weekend I had fun horsey plans scheduled, but I had to cancel. To make myself feel better about originally cancelled plans, I made different fun horsey plans which… as you guessed, were cancelled. Therefore much of my weekend was spent with me trying my best to stick to my diet…
Once upon a time I used to travel a lot and lug my giant camera everywhere. Now I am poor with a travel money eating pony. Ah, the choices we make. Soon I will travel again, but lately I’ve just been missing it. Combine that with the fact that I don’t often take a look back at the millions of photos I take, and I present to you “Travel Tuesday”. I didn’t actually get to NYC until my early 20’s….
I spent the past three days doing some of this. A lot of this. And overall relaxing and hanging out with my family. It was a good, very needed break. Also, my brain is on vacation mode a little bit still, which would explain the overall lack of content for this post. I sat down on the couch when I got home last night to write blog material, but instead it pretty much came out more like “blog good horse…
You’re probably going to be shocked, but I was job hunting for the last 3 months of my 6 month stint at my job at the cult. I took any interview I could get (including some really awful positions) to try and get out of there, and finally something worked out. It wasn’t even a good position, but it was most likely not in a cult. At the time, that was enough for me. Before I had another job offer, I…