Batavia Riverwalk

On Mother's Day mom decided she wanted to take us kids and Lumi down to the Batavia Riverwalk since it was a beautiful day.

Most the focus was on Lumi because she went crazy as soon as mom mentioned "ride?"

Wanna go for a ride Lumi?

RIDE!!!!

Fabyan Windmill, built in the 1850s.

Like a boss.

Lumi was exhausted afterwards, poor doggie

Earlier today, on the way to meet Andrew at Starbucks, I drove by FermiLab without even realizing it.

I love you, why don't you call me?

Andrew and I talked outside the 'Bux for a while untili they closed then we wandered to the only place that was open that late (walmart). Bought some Pocky and a few of those those funny little yan-yan chocolate sticks (Squirrel - Your best friend.)

Their media department has a giant Thor cardboard cutout.

It wasn't for sale.

Lu is so cute

Andrew and I at Caribou coffee

And later, emergency iHop.

Lu <3

Andrew says he can cook but pix or it didn't happen.

It was a beautiful day so we decided to fire up the grill and cook some steaks.


My brother titles this picture "Soon".

Doing a little knitting on Star Wars Day being sacrilege by watching Stargate instead of Star Wars.

Later Andrew texted me saying he was free after 10pm and we went to go see Avengers.

Awesome movie, best one I've seen in a while. Loki has such swagger; I'm glad Tom Hiddleston has signed on for a few more sequels.

Before having a Super Smash Bros + Mario Kart + Limbo marathon, Andrew and I felt an emergency TGIFridays run was in order.

Caesar-marinated chicken with a Parmesan crust with spinach alfredo ravioli and a fresh mozzarella and tomato salad.

The next day Andrew and I went to Panera for lunch (frozen caramel not the same without you Sarah!) then went to Caribou for some coffee.
They had this poll going due to the Avengers and since someone had already written Thor (my favorite avenger) and there was no love for Hawkeye I wrote him down there in the corner.


lol @ the person who wrote "a velociraptor".


While I was at the register I remarked to Andrew "someone wrote Loki as their favorite hero". The gal at the register said "That was me." I had to high-five her. We need to be friends now hahaha

This morning I made the most perfect omelet.

Epic Picspam is Epic

I didn't want to update my blog until I had a positive step forward in the job search, and as such this morning I had a phone interview with a lovely woman named Laura so here goes two weeks of pictures.

There are something like 30 pictures so I won't be typing much.

To make the 1,250 mile journey a bit more palpable I decided to knit a complicated project while on the road to occupy my time. I chose the Cornflower Cowl by Karen Scott.

Cast on.

Work-in-progress at a Georgia gas station.

I am wearing my TARDIS shirt and listening to Spanish reggaeton.

Flying metal bird outside Atlanta. We ran into standstill on the highway right outside of Atlanta but the weather was absolutely beautiful so I didn't give a damn.

Houston, we have topography.

It was around the mountains in TN where we saw a large semitruck on fire. As in, FLAMES LEAPING OFF THE ENGINE.

Nashville. Somewhere along here we saw a graveyard of neglected backhoes.

Blurry picture is blurry.

Horse country.

Stopped in Kentucky for dinner.

After stopping for the night we watched Big Bang Theory on the crummy hotel TV before going to sleep. This city did not have 3G which rendered my iPad the equivalent of a 900$ chopping board.

This bridge was over the border of Kentucky and Indiana so I couldn't get a picture of the Welcome to Indiana sign as it didn't exist.

Morning sun.
It was around here where we saw a PIRATE BOAT in a pond. Wish I could have gotten a picture.

Batavia, the City of Windmills. Also, where both the bottom quark and the top quark were first detected at the particle accelerator lol i love physics

Beautiful view out my bedroom window. There are windchimes in the pine tree there and when the window is open they are lovely to listen to.

Pulled Pork at The Office, a little pub in St. Charles (I think it was St. Charles anyway) Home of Ben, the hot waiter-slash-sculptor who works nights at the pizza place.

What blog post would be complete without gratuitous pictures of the dog, Lu.

Little less than halfway done at the moment.

Everybody say AWWWW!

AWWWW

Vincent (as represented by his glasses), Andrew and I at Portillo's restaurant. The decor and ambiance in this place is crazy good. As soon as you step through the doors it's the 1930s. I wanted to take pictures but the flash was necessary and I didn't want to seem like a crazy person taking pictures.

Lights on a fake tree in the corner of my room (I've always loved ambient lighting)


That's it for now!