Niagara Weekend

This weekend my housemates and I are traveling to Niagara Falls (where on of them, my bff DW, lives) to show our German and Polish friends one of Canada's greatest treasures.

Today we saw the Falls, and they are GORGEOUS, especially at night, when they are lit from behind in a whole slue of different colors. After losing a game of rock, paper, scissors, Nora forced me to go up the Niagara Sky Wheel (much scarier than a ferris wheel) at night. Once our little pod started shaking, I completely lost my nerves. So scary!  However, we were lucky enough to go on at the right time, because halfway through our ride we saw some beautiful fireworks over the Falls. So I suppose the amazing visual end to our day was worth my momentary freakout.

Tomorrow we head over to the American side to do a little shopping. I'm so excited to visit the J Crew and Kate Spade outlets.  We have our Commerce semiformal coming up next weekend, so I'm hoping to find a new dress.

Then it's off at 6am Monday morning for the 5 hour drive back to school.  I'm definitely going to have to stop by Starbucks to get some sustenance.

Happy Weekend (and Go Gators)!

Post Halloween

I hope everyone had a Happy Halloween!  Here I am with my housemate Nora from Germany:

The stripes started falling off unfortunately, so you can't really see all of the words of my spelling bee costume.  But it was still darn cute!

Lilly Sale!

Lilly - 50% + love of pink and green + Under the Palm Tree = bliss

In case you haven't heard yet, Under the Palm Tree is taking 50% off the Lilly fall collection, plus offering free shipping.  I really shouldn't have, but I couldn't resist picking up a couple of items:

I admit, I have become a Lilly addict, and I can't wait to receive my order!

Halloween

I don't know about you, but I am SUPER excited for Halloween!  I love dressing up, I love carving pumpkins, and I love the colors (mainly because my high school's colors were black and orange, so October was essentially an entire month of school spirit fun).  Every year I try to outdo myself with my costume.  Last year I was the Travelocity garden gnome:

This year I think I will go as a spelling bee.  I have a yellow dress on which I will pin black ribbon and velcro letters, spelling out some of my most commonly used sayings such as "gosh darn" and "holy moly". Now I just need to find time to cut out the mass of letters. What is everyone else doing for Halloween?  

Busy Busy Busy as a Bee!

I am so very happy that it is the weekend but, unfortunately, the majority of my weekend will be spent studying for my Medieval Art exam,

an Art of the High Renaissance slide test (somehow I have to memorize 200 works of art),

and an observation study for my Marketing Research class (I get to people watch and make notes- basically stalk people for an hour).

Hopefully I can make it through the following week in one piece!