Meet Roy

Final thoughts on Boston:
On Saturday, we were a part of the tourist mass on the Freedom Trail. That night we had dinner at the Union Oyster House (from your suggestions, thank you very much!), then checked out the OTHER Cheers, which was disappointing compared to the first in my opinion. Maybe it was the 2 bachelorette parties, or maybe it was the the college couple making on the stool next to us. But this little guy had fun:


That's Roy. We bought adopted him at the Union Oyster House for a ridiculous amount of money... but he provided much entertainment for the remaining trip. He was going to be stuffed with catnip and given to Viva, but after spending so much time with him, I just couldn't do it.

Then came the trip home, which lasted WAAAAYYYYY to long, by the way. All I'll say about that is I was able to knit 220 yards of worsted weight yarn, LAX can suck it as far as I am concerned, and stopping at a truck stop in Bakersfield at 3:30am is not an experience for the weak of heart. Roy wanted to drive but he just sat on the dashboard the whole time.



Click the image to see the photoset of the whole trip

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Knitting
So I talked about knitting 220 yards on Sunday (that would be 1 skein of Cascade 220, for those of you keeping track). Sitting in an airport, then on a delayed plane, then on a 3.5 hour drive home will do that to you.


See, I was good and only took Thermal with me, but at Windsor Button I bought some Cascade 220 in this yummy burgandy tweed, which I am working up into this. I'm onto the final front, then it just needs some blocking and a collar. I'm going to see if I can finish it up before I leave for Santa Cruz on Friday.

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Wedding
Ah the wedding. How do I love/hate thee. All I will say is I hate the guest list. Hate it. But other than that I've been zipping right along... we are under 180 days to go! This weekend my mom and I worked on my invitations, which are going to be a mix of pre-fab and DIY (We are sending out like 350, and my mom and I only have so much spare time!). They are going to look similar to these (far right), but with a more earthy print design to them. We are going to print and assemble them ourselves, then embellish and tie them up with some gorgeous ribbon. I think my knitting life will suffer greatly.

I also bought my dress, which I will give you a small peak of. I'm not concerned about Matt seeing it, since he's already seen the full size photos. We're not superstitious around here.

Roy approves.

I Finally Got My Oysters

Boston was AMAZING. I've always heard great things about the city but WOW - what a trip! I'm not going to bore you with a mile-long post about everything, so I'll break it down over a couple days.

Day 1
We left Fres-yes on Tuesday morning at 5am (note that the tempature is already 75 degrees - gotta love July in the valley!)
The breakfast of champions!	To assist with my insane fear of flying, Matt promptly ordered me a Bloody Mary as soon as we got checked in. Ah the man knows the way to my heart.
After a mellow flight over, we got to the hotel and were pretty much exhausted (check out the view from the room.) We ended up walking about 200 feet to a pub and ate while watching the All-Star game (one of the more entertaining games in recent history, in my humble opinion.)	Can we please talk about how much my hair HATED the humidity?!?
	After my conference on Wednesday, we strolled through Boston Common to the original Cheers, the Bull & Finch Pub. Cool place, but loaded with tourists (HI! Can you take our photo please?!?) We ended up having a few rounds of Bunker Hill Blueberry Ale which was to DIE for (I may have to pay one of you on the East Coast to ship Matt and I a 12-er of this!!!). We stayed for awhile because we were chatting with some fellow travelers from Ohio and South Carolina (side note: We didn't meet any other travelers from California during the entire trip).
Since I had been talking about oysters pretty much non-stop since we left Fres-yes (i LOVE LOVE LOVE them), we decided to hit Legal Seafood for dinner and these babies were all mine. I was in heaven.
Day 2
	I had more conferencey stuff, but we were able to get out for a bit because Matt walked holes in his shoes the day before and needed a new pair, and I wanted to check out Windsor Button (MUCHO thanks for the recommendations - I was not disappointed!) I picked up a few goodies which I will get to later, but was the most excitied about finding Norah Gaughn's Collection #1. That night we had a dinner at the Boston State Room (AMAZING views) and then hung out at Whiskey Park getting a little tipsy with other conference folks.

Part II coming when I don't have to be at work in 10 minutes.

Boston Here We Come

WARNING: This post contains almost no knitting content and some might call it dull. Pleae feel free to move along to the next blog and miss my ranting about how I can't get sh#t done.

Ever have one of those periods of life where you feel like there is so much going on but you never really get anything accomplished? Between work, wedding planning, trying to knit, working on stuff for the house... nothing seems to be getting done. Time has just been escaping me lately - I mean, we're leaving for Boston tomorrow morning at an ungodly-early hour (let's not even TALK about how freaked out I am about even getting on the plane. I am probably one of the most aviatophobic people you will ever (cyber)meet) and I havn't even done the slightest bit of research on how we are going to get around, where things are located, etc (However, many of your suggestions did give me some excellent leads).

So far, Union Oyster House and Toronto vs. the Sox on Friday night are the only two things we are doing for sure. Only 3 more nights/4 more days to figure out!

I'm trying to convince myself to ONLY take Thermal with me so I can make some serious progress on it. It probably won't happen but it's a nice idea.