this post is brought to you by the letter b.

so the amazing bing over at life in the left lane gave me the letter b in the starting with the letter game...

so here are my 10 favorite things that start with the letter b:
1. backpacking
backpacking is one of my FAVOURITE things to do. i love going out with everything i need on my back and camping and hiking. one of my favourite trips was summer of 2007 when i took 6 high school students in the smoky mountains.

ps. i have a slight obsession with nalgenes...

2. berlin 

berlin is one of my favourite cities! i went to berlin in november 2005 for a long weekend and had an amazing time with my two friends laura and emily. i love german history so running around the reichstag, brandenburg gates, the berlin wall, and all through the city was just fascintating to finally see these things after 2 history classes on germany!

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3. babies

i absolutely love babies. though right now there is no way i want one of my own. i love playing with other peoples and babysitting, but like at the end of the day or when they are omg cranky to give them back. one day, but not for a long while!

with my cousin daniel at christmas

4. beer 

what is not to love about beer? i'm slightly a beer snob though. i think i drank too much crappy beer in college - mmmm beast! and now if i'm gonna drink beer, i want to like it. i obvi love my stout - beamish if in cork, guinness anywhere else, or heinekin and if i'm going cheap miller. 

whoa, glasses.... this was the day after st. patrick's day senior year, after the crew party post spring break training trip  the seniors went to the irish pub in town to celebrate me going back to ireland!

5. books 

i absolutely love reading. like i always have a book in my purse and i probably read about 100 books a year, no joke. i'm a fast reader and especially in the summer i love to do nothing else than sit out and read. i seriously brought 12 books to the shore for 5 days over the summer. and i usually get 2-3 books a week from the library, i read every night before bed and once i start a book i have a hard time stopping. some of my absolute favourites are red rose crew; eat,pray,love; sisterhood of the traveling pants; gone with the wind. i love reading chick lit and history.

a stack of reading from the library in the summer 2007 - i was slightly on an irish kick here with the maeve binchy (a fav!) and 2 historical fiction on ireland

6. bowballs 

ok, this one is slightly odd.. so in crew, each boat has a bowball. a little foam ball about the size of a ping pong ball on the front, kinda like a mini boat bumper to protect it from docks or other boats... and one of my favourite things in a race is when you are walking on a crew and as the coxswain i would just yell to my girls - BOWBALL, meaning that we were almost a full boat legnth in front of that crew and to take a few hard stroke to get that boat legnth. and nothing was better than on wednesday mornings when racing the boys to yell bowball on the little boys! gosh, how i miss rowing. i've also won races by a bowball and lost races by a bowball, literaly about a half a second over 2000 meters. 

a few of the boats, you can see the bowball on a few of them - the victor o. stango was my boat senior year, the clo was my frosh year boat.  i have some great memories in those boats.... and in the p fall too. haha - florida junior year.

7. blogging 

i've been blogging now since 2001. i've used a few different sites, but i love it. i love being able to read about my life since i was 16 and i also love reading other people's blogs :)

8. barry's tea 

my absolute favourite kind of tea. barry's irish gold blend. i drink about 4 cups of tea a day, and when i go back to the states i will be bringing back a ton of tea! in the year and a half i was back in the states, luckily i had friends go to ireland and they had to bring me back tea!

barry's and tea biscuits = heaven

9. billy joel

billy joel is one of my favourite singers. i grew up listening to him and i can sing along with almost any of his songs. i'm slightly jealous of my parents who've seen him in concert multiple times. my fav songs would be - the longest time, downeaster alexa, scenes from an italian restaurant, i've loved these days, and vienna. 

shhhh... i know it isn't billy joel - but my senior crewies remind me of him because our song was - the longest time

10. beach

i'm a jersey girl and would normally call it the shore... but the letter is b. so i love the beach. the feeling of the sand between my toes, lying out soaking up the sun, listening to the surf, long walks on the beach, maybe going in the ocean... i went to the jersey shore every summer for a week growing up and i love it. and i loved the few hours in florida in march during spring break, afternoons at betterton during college, the amazing sunset over the pacific, playing along the med, really anywhere there is a beach :)

at the jersey shore about a year old - 2 of my fav things a baby on the beach!! 

 

so there you have it, my 10 favourite things that start with the letter b!

if you would like to play, let me know and i'll give you a letter!