This was my second trip to Vancouver. The first time I went was in February 2007. My cousin and I drove up from Seattle and spent one night there, so basically we were only in town for about 24 hours. I remember thinking, “Vancouver…what’s the big...
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OH…MY…GOD. Remember last week when I was obsessing about City Bakery’s Melted Chocolate Cookie? Well, thanks to Molly Wizenberg and my hot baker husband, I obsess no more. Drew tried Molly’s Chocolate Rads recipe today. It’s been a while...
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Just when I’d given up all hope of ever seeing a movie again, my parents came to visit and dote on their adorable new grandson. Drew and I took this opportunity to see Eat Pray Love, a movie that I’d been dying to watch ever since it was announced that it was being...
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No, I don’t want to move back there, and yes, there are plenty of things that I don’t love about it. But this morning I wished that I had Hiro Nakamura’s ability to teleport, so I could spend the day walking around Santa Monica and Abbot Kinney Blvd...
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Drew and I had a great time on our recent trip to NYC. Here are some of my favorite places we visited or things that we did, in no particular order. I loved the High Line Park. Freight trains used to run above the city here, beginning in the 1930s, but now it’s an...
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To see photographs from our trip, read the An Italian Honeymoon series. I feel like I’ve finally settled in to being back home. Seattle has been quite welcoming, giving us sunshine, blue skies, and lovely mountain views for the past 2 weekends. I’m getting...
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No, not Hilton. Paris, FRANCE. Do you have Christmas in France, Monique? Anyway, all this thinking about and planning my upcoming trip to Italy has made me think about my first and only trip to Europe in April, 2005. Ahh, Paris. Things I Loved Taking walks,...
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