Oops, I did it again....

In this case, I mean that I messed up and put off posting. AND NOW, Summer is over. I've started school, and Mitch will be starting up again on Tuesday. We've had a great time this month, and I'm definitely sad to see it go.

Well, let's see...the trip. Unfortunately, we had several camera mishaps...and we can't prove that we ever did our two week road trip down the West Coast. BUT here are the few snaps that we were able to hold onto (with our lives). Here goes.... (I'm sorry about the fuzzy iphone photos to start.)

This was, of course, our ride! A Fiat 500! What a dream it was... besides the episode when we had to drive Minhee and Sunah with luggage. That was quite a tight fit. 

This is quite the wonderful Seattle Public Library!

These are the incredible Redwoods at Humbolt Redwoods State Park! We camped here overnight.  

This is at Big Sur, which is one of the most magical places on earth. I can't wait to go back. Maybe our camera's memory card is still there, and we'll be able to show you more of what's there! 

The things on the shore are not boulders...they're elephant seals, which are one of the most unattractive creatives on earth. They're like Gonzo. Remember him? 

My grandparents were so pumped to meet Mitch. They spoiled us with grapes! 

I took Mitch to Intelligentsia in Silver Lake...for some very overpriced single origins. 

Mitch had to try In-N-Out... They have nothing vegetarian, so I ate my grandma's 약식. 

We went to LACMA, which is where we realized that we lost all of our photos...on the second to last day of our trip. :/

But we forgot about the trauma a little, with a bit of soon tofu with my grandparents!

This place had bike-churned ice cream. For reallllll

Some highlights from the trip:
-Minhee and Sunah were able to come down to Portland from Seattle with us!
-We went to Ona Beach in Oregon, which is a beach that my family used to frequent when we were younger. Its more beautiful than I remember.
-We also stopped in Dayton, OR, where my grandfather's farm used to stand. It was sold in the 90's, and it has since been foreclosed. The house where my family used to live is still there, but the place looks a bit devastated. It was hard to look at it in that state, but I'm glad we went.
-Big Sur.
-Kristina was the best hostess in SF!
-We had a bit of a sketchy camping experience in Los Padres National Forest, which ended up working out just fine. ...an appropriate episode to our road trip.
-Of course, we visited some of America's best ice cream shops........
The list could go on forever. We can't wait to be able to do a trip like this again! Next up, Yosemite!

Thanks to great friends and family, the trip ended up being a grand success!

Since then, we've been doing a lot around Brooklyn and Philly! Minhee moved in, as soon as we returned. She's living in the same zip code in Brooklyn, so that's very cool. I'm excited for her! After her first day of orientation, we went to see ET at Bryant Park. It was their last summer open-air movie, so it was quite the zoo!

This photo doesn't do an adequate job of depicting the number of people at the park. 

I had to get to Philly in a bit of hurry for a TA orientation. After countless trips to Ikea and Target, I am finally living in Philly like a functional human. Mitch came and stayed for a while, and we were able to do a fair amount of setting up and hanging out.

I had suggested that we go to a Phillies game... Little did I know that it would turn out to be the longest Phillies game in history! Thank goodness for good company...and a life-saving pretzel.

This weekend is Labor Day weekend, and Mitch's family is visiting New York! There will be a bit of US Open, a bit of Poughkeepsie, and a lot of wonderful meals. That'll mark the end of summer.

I hope everyone's summer was as swell as ours! We'll see you next year! I don't know if I'll make it through this semester, but we'll see...  ;) There are climbing walls at Temple, so hopefully, that'll help me to stay sane! In the meantime, I'm keeping a blog regarding public history for a class... so you can visit me there.