The Adventure Continues

Mirroring a lion friend in Romania
Fall 2012)

Dropping off one of my girls
-from when I was an RA-
off at the MTC, man I felt old!
(Winter 2013)

     It has been a good long while since I've posted anything...almost two years in fact. I had originally meant this blog to be one covering the adventure that was my internship in Romania. Those posts are still up (although I've realized that they consisted of mostly pictures), but recently I decided that perhaps those posts shouldn't mark the end of the blog because it certainly isn't the end of my adventuring.

Starting my final year off with some
pretty great roommates!
(Fall 2013)

Getting ready to hike Mt. Fuji
(Summer 2013)

      Since my internship I've graduated from college, accepted my first big girl job (my first job as a college grad), applied for.... (well, applied for something that I won't talk about until next post because I refuse to let it be a star player in my 'come back post') and many other things. I think more important to me than these big happenings, have been the small joys & experiences as well as the lessons I've learned along the way. Despite its perky name (look back at one of the earliest posts for an explanation), I don't mean this blog to be all sunshine and rainbows.

Clark and I are graduates!

(Spring 2014)

While yes, I enjoy being optimistic, I know not everything is happy and perfect all of the time. For instance, I have no problem saying that the decisions I've made since my last post have been hard. I greatly disliked making them in the moment (as they were coupled with lots of anxiety, doubt, and tears). However, through all that unpleasantness I was able to grow, feel more confident and find peace. Part of my reasoning for continuing this blog is to help me find that silver lining in difficult situations. Sometimes

Going through a post-grad
rebellious phase
(Summer 2014)

they're hard to find, but talking it out makes them more obvious.

     I have often been of the mind: 'if people what to know what's going on with me, they can ask me in person.' And while I still look forward to spending time with friends and getting to talk about life with them, I've really enjoyed my friends' blogs and have realized that blogging can be a way to connect. So please leave comments, talk with me on this blog. Well, this is the end of my first blog post back. I'll be writing again soon! Have a wonderful day!

More pictures!

Alright, so here is the other half of my trip to Brasov! We hiked to the top of the mountain.... k fine, we took a cable car up and hiked/slipped our way down (those rainy palace pictures were the day before...gotta love muddy mountain paths!)

It's like the Hollywood sign...only for Brasov! Some of my friends climbed it

I'm on top of the world!

Slippery.... not good

You did that on purpose! Name that movie!!! (Emperor's New Groove)

Chillin at the smallest street in the world!

Fortress at night. Legit.

I got this little guy on my finger at one point, I felt like Snow White!

The Saturday before our trip to Brasov, a group of us went to the Flower Festival at the Botanical Garden in Iasi. It was so cool! They made things out of flowers!!

I'm a beautiful butterfly! (Bugs Life!)

Coolest group of people you'll ever meet ;)

Dwarf door!!!

Jodie and I

Norpo Roommates!

Really, what else would you do when you find a hole in the ground?

I'm twins with a statue!

Alrighty, so here is the start of my Moldova day trip pictures!

First time at McDonalds in Europe, I got a kids meal complete with toy!

 In Moldova they speak both Romanian and Russian. It was cool to see and hear it all!

Romanian written in Russian. COOL!

Bell tower!

This guy was the king that build 44 monasteries throughout  Moldova and Romania, one for each victory

I wanted to give this lion a hug

School of Music for Children (yahoo I can read it!)

Pretty park

The lake! Yup, I touched it

Staircase in ruins!

Yes....this is a bathroom, weirdest experience of Moldova

I love you! Have a wonderful day! Hopefully there will be stories to come. For right now, make them up and make sure there is a lot of magic in the stories!

Pictures!

Hey all! So I'll write more latter, but here are pictures from my mid-semester trip!!

13th Century fortress church :) So pretty! Can anyone read German?

Lookin' out the fortress wall :)

So this hole is supposed to be for people to shoot out, I thought it was cute that a bird build a nest there instead!

Eggshells

Nest :)

And now.....HALLOWEEN IN TRANSYLVANIA!!!

Dracula's Castle

It's so pretty!

Grandfather clock+hide in go seek= not good. Lesson learned

TRAPPED IN DRACULA'S CASTLE

Secret underground entrance to the castle :)

 Wasn't Dracula's Castle pretty?! I love Transylvania in the fall, look at those colors:)

Time for Hotel Transylvania in 3D! So cute!

Ok, all bets are off, come here puppy!

Rainy day in front of Pales Castle!

Lion face in the courtyard!

 So this big castle was closed, but we got to walk through the Pelisor Castle right behind it, the smaller summer home castle that still had 60 rooms...one of them completely covered in gold. So pretty!

SOOOO hungry! We got 11 pizzas....

More pictures and videos soon to come! Happy Halloween (a few days late)! Ba!