saturday

we had such a nice morning downtown! todd had an interview with a guy from the university of texas at austin, so i spent an hour shopping, walking the magnificent mile, and admiring some of my favorite chicago architecture. i brought our nice camera... but forgot the memory card. classic.

after todd's interview (which he says went well), we ate lunch at the flat top grill. we ate so much that neither of us was hungry for dinner-- no cooking? works for me! after eating, we walked through millenium park and back to our car. and we stopped at garrett's for some carmel corn (chicago tradition!), even though we were stuffed from lunch. we intended on going to the art institute, but we were so full that we just wanted to go home and lay down. plus, chicago is still pretty cold.

so we went home and watched new mexico beat our cougars on the court. unfortunate. then went grocery shopping. and now todd is out bowling with some of the guys in our ward and i'm at home watching the kardashians.

today has been a pretty typical, not super eventful, but wonderful saturday. i will miss these days when todd is busy with schoolwork in the fall!

linens

i haven't done much decorating for our current apartment. knowing that we are moving in less than six months, i don't really want to move a lot of excess decor. (but trust me, i'm way excited to decorate the new place!)

the bed however, has issues that must be fixed now. it is a random mix of the new duvet and shams i bought recently, with my old college shams, pillow, and bed skirt (the stripes). i don't think they go. but i don't know what does.

the ideas from the pottery barn catalog are pretty... but... i don't know. i so like the all white. maybe i should just go for all white. i like the porcelain blues and vivid greens of the other room, but i'm not a huge fan of toile. or matchy-match rooms that look like they came from a catalog.

... any good ideas?

charlottesville

we went to virginia last weekend to check out another school. we both expected to enjoy it... but we LOVED it. charlottesville was amazing, the school was even better, and the people were even better than that! we had such a great time, i only had a chance to take like one picture, which is above.

we spent all day friday getting persuaded to choose darden, making lots of friends, and finding out how much an MBA costs (a lot). on saturday, we found a potential place to live and drove up to manassas to see cousins nikki and dave. after a quick day visiting them, playing lots of games and eating great food, we were back to the airport.

i consider it divine intervention that our trip ended up as it did. i accidentally selected to travel through baltimore instead of the washington dulles airport, adding an extra hour's drive to our trip. we weren't happy about it initially, but it worked out because dulles had delays and cancellations, and baltimore didn't. the weather had been horrendous the previous week, but when we got there it was all cleared up... and we flew out before the next storm came through.

and BONUS! we got to do a quick driving tour of dc on our way out!