developed.

One of my favorite things? Getting a roll of film back. I love how holgas capture a certain magic feel to an experience or place that no other camera can.

so now what?

On the long plane ride home I thought this to myself. 6 weeks of summer home time. What would I do after traipsing around Europe for a few months? What could possibly compare? And then we landed in Salt Lake and I remembered. Childhood, family, Yale ave. Home. And I sure do love it. We drove up our tree lined streets and were welcomed by our golden puppy jumping up and down at the door. I love my this home my parents have created for us.

Lately my time has been spent babysitting possibly the cutest children ever to grace this planet, teaching art camp with my artistically gifted older sister, and soaking in summer on the back porch. We have been roasting veggies like they're going out of style (after a pretty embarrassing episode at Whole Foods that involved artichokes and a gardener and a grocer) and sitting on the couch outside playing guitar and talking the night away.

Not going to lie, there are moments when I miss Paris and my Paris friends so much my heart hurts, but I am here and here is now and I am happy.

reason number 9985 i love my sisters

Because we enjoy browsing the greeting card section at every grocery store and find the same things hilarious. And then proceed to take pictures of it. The ones that sing to you are our favorite.

When you picture england do you picture this?

Because I didn't until I came here. And now I can seriously say it is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been! Yesterday we ventured out to Penzance and stayed in a hostel. (All six of us in bunk beds. It was hilarious) We went to the coast and it was breathtaking. I love road tripping with my family. And I have found my new goal: go backpacking for a month along the coast of New Zealand. Anyone else in?

fin (almost)

I officially fail at blogging. it's just that traveling and blogging are kind of hard to do at the same time. Lame excuse I know. So I am done with my study abroad in Paris. I can honestly say it was some of the best few weeks of my life. The place was of course amazing, but the people were even better! I've been thinking a lot about that. We spent our last week in Geneva, Switzerland and our final day jumping off of large things into the lake and laying on the floating dock. And it was perfect. Until I accidentally took out 300 francs from an atm in order to buy a ten franc kebab. But I am trying to forget about that. And it actually just made the day even funnier. It would be impossible to try to blog about it all (do you ever wonder why we even blog? I've been thinking about that lately. It's kind of a funny thing.) , so I will leave you with this song that was constantly playing the last few weeks of our trip and we had a dance party in the Etap hotel room our last night to it. Does a pretty nice job of summing things up I think.