Africa Reunions

Before I jump into my European Adventures I need to have a quick shout out to my Africa-reunion month of June! That's right I was ever so lucky to reunite with four of my friends from my study abroad in Tanzania throughout the month of June.

First there was Stephanie...my fellow master jokester

Hanging out with Steph at Bonnaroo this year was magical. Not only was it great to see Steph's beautiful face again, but I finally got to meet her awesome sister Sarah! Stephanie is one of the most passionate, caring and intelligent people I know and I am so glad to have her as a friend. Counting down the days till she visits Philadelphia this fall!

Now, I knew that I would see Steph at Bonnaroo and Elizabeth in Spain, but my next reunion was completely random and perfect in its own way.

Katrina, aka Katreeeen-Bean, just so happened to be in Philadelphia for a conference in June with our other study-abroad friend AJ. We all met up for some beers in South Philly, catching up on the past year or so and enjoying each others' company once again. Hanging out with Katrina and AJ for the night made me miss all of my Tanzania-lovas and crave a good old-fashion African adventure.

Finally, after nearly a year and a half without seeing each other in person, I reunited with Elizabeth in Spain!

Ironically Elizabeth and I have yet to actually see each other in the United States, which is fine because our international adventures are always the most memorable. Twins and traveling buddies forever ッ

Busy Bee

The past couple months I have been crazy busy with work and extracurricular activities. March was by far my busiest month of concerts ever (7), and I received the Award of Excellence at work in April! You gotta work hard to play hard, and I certainly know how to play hard...

St. Patty's Day

 

Dr. Dog @ The Electric Factory

 Delta Spirit @ Union Transfer 

He never looks at the camera (1, 2)

Liz's 23rd Birthday in Atlantic City, NJ

 

 

Reuniting with my La Salle lovers

"It feels so good to be exactly where I was one year ago"

 

Showing the freshmen who's boss

 and of course lots of love & Tom shoe wearin'<3

May should be no different, a wedding this weekend, the Preakness and other Baltimore craziness the following weekend and a glorious 3-day weekend to end May. In fact I already started off this jam packed month with some extra special fun: The Broad Street Run -- a ten mile run down Broad Street in Philadelphia...

 Best long distance race yet! 8:32/mile pace

More photos and adventures to comes, stay tuned ツ

RIO

Last Saturday I took a mini road trip Gaithersburg, MD to meet up with my one and only, bestest-friend in the entire world, sissta fo life, Carly! Carly moved to Florida after graduation last year so I don't get to frolic with her as much as I used to, which is why I was super excited when I found she would be in Maryland for a RIO fitness class.

RIO, Real Intense Outcomes, is a hot new dance-fitness class that is taking Miami by storm. My lovaface Carly is so good at it that they asked her to help out at RIO expo's around the country. RIO is similar to zumba, but even better! The dance moves are way more intense and involve lots of booty shaking...sign me up!

So Carly's madre (basically my 2nd mother) and I took a little road trip down Maryland to reunite with Carly and shake our bottoms to some crazy Brazillian musica! The RIO Expo was a four hour dance class and I loved every minute of it--it was a total full body work out.

 

Ruben and Flori can dance this crazy brazillian dance called Capoeira, basically a mix between martial arts and acrobatics...it's INTENSE!

After RIO we consumed our body weight in Spanish food and proceeded to spend the rest of night being gypsies in the middle of bumble-fuck-Maryland...aka we frolicked around till we ended up at some townie bar that had karaoke, took way too many shots, did about 50 cart wheels, met some random orioles fans and just had a blast with the rest of the RIO dance team.

Any weekend spent with the DiLella's is always a memorable weekend and this one was no different. It was so great getting to hang out with Carly again and Mrs. DiLella was a hoot as always! Can't wait to save up some money and visit Carly in Miami!