sweet 16, friends and cherry blossoms

such a busy and fun last few days! you would think that with all this traveling for work that i'd enjoy my time off at home right? haha, then you haven't been reading this blog long enough. so i was all over the place the last few days.

let's start off with my friday night! so i mentioned that i crazily bought last minute sweet sixteen tickets for the prudential center in newark for my dad and i for the north carolina game. he had gone years ago with my grandfather to see carolina play and since they were playing so close why not. such a great time! the carolina/marquette game was fun, but for a basketball fan kinda boring. after about 5 minutes into the game when unc went on a 19-0 point run and marquette hadn't scored in 9 minutes you knew it was over. but it was great getting to watch my favorite college basketball team play in the sweet sixteen. but the ohio state/kentucky game was amazing! now i was cheering for kentucky for

my bracket (which i'm still going strong, despite having pitt as my champ and according to espn i'm one of 2.1% of the 5.9 million people who picked 2 of the final four teams) but behind us was kentucky fans and next to me was ohio. so that made it more fun! and the game was great too! with the last seconds kentucky made a basket and they won! the atmosphere was just so intense and everyone was super friendly and i am so glad i went! 





so i was up early on saturday to head down to pennsylvania for the weekend. for some weird twist of fate amy, jeanne, kaity and i were all together for a few hours on saturday! kaity was visiting philly for school and amy and i had made plans to see a regatta on sunday. so we enjoyed saturday afternoon going wedding dress shopping with jeanne and out to lunch, just catching up! it has been fabulous to have the 4 of us together twice in the last month! and then walburn came down saturday night after kaity left because the regatta sunday (which we realized on saturday afternoon, was really on saturday not sunday - so no rowing... but still great times with friends) and so we had a kinda crazy night. we just went out in the cute town jeanne lives in for dinner at an irish pub (you know my love for these) and all shared a bunch of apps and drinks and just talked about rowing, weddings, life, boys, grad school and work. and then we went to a bar. now it was a kinda quiet saturday evening, and we sat at the bar and ordered drinks. i've been on a blue moon kick and well i was the first to order and mine had an orange slice as usual. well they ran out of oranges, but one male bartender was eating carrots and offered us one to put in our drinks... and then the fun started. so they kept bringing us fun shots to try (not complaining) and so on our second round and they were still out of oranges they brought us orange juice (who would ruin a beer with that) and earlier people were playing beer pong and the table was empty and so we decided to play (last time i played - college) and it was pretty funny! and then after that we just had fun and the bartenders invited us to stay after closing, so we spent an extra hour at the bar chatting with them and just laughing about everything. so after we finally got home at 3.30am (longest i've been out in a while) and it was fun and a great night out with the girls!

me, kaity, amy and jeanne!

girls on the town 

and then sunday we hung out around the house and then walked around chesnut hill, pa enjoying the day each other's company. and then sunday afternoon i headed down to the dc area. i'm was looking for a place to live before i move down in april, so i had mon & tues to search. so hopefully i found something - i find out thursday if i got the place i liked. so it was fun little trip. saw patricia and we commiserated our basketball losses (kansas for her and unc for me) and i saw one of my connecticut friends on monday and tuesday before i left i braved the crowds and saw some cherry blossoms!

so i'm back in jersey for a few days and went to the devils game with meg & suz tonight. had fun with them and catching up and watching some hockey. it made me feel like i was 17 again, but great at the same time.