Holy crappola..

So I'm last person McGee to get on the flight, and no not the nonstop to Salt Lake like I would have liked but I had to burn a vacation pass to sit in 26A COACH!!!!! But I'm on the plane out of Paris which is what matters.. My friend dan and I were trying to brainstorm options but thankfully we did make the flight.. Ill send another update out of CVG if I have time...

So it turns out that I did have time in CVG but because the airport there is in Northern Kentucky and not all that close to the city, I didnt have a cell signal. SO yet again, I am THEE last person to board the flight to SLC. So much for a flawless trip eh.. oh well..

Here are some of the amazing photos..
Mike and Dan in Business class

Ok someone tell me how this skinny apartment building works exactly?

The Moulin Rouge

Stained Glass Windows

The Sacre Coeur or 'Sacred Heart'

Mike and the Sacre Coeur

The police station

Notre Dame Cathedral

The Seine River

Les Plages de Paris 'the beaches of paris'

Funny haha...

Bonjour from the wonderful city of paris. Yes you can see out my hotel window is the pompiers station (fire dept) and that fireman walking in.. He was walking out when we came walking by and did a silly macho walk for his friends that were behind us. Totally made me laugh.. Been to the Moulin Rouge, Sacre Coeur and the Notre Dame.. Now off to dinner.. Need to blog about hitting the lady one the metro, twice, in the head!

Ok so about that lady. We were hopping on the metro heading to Notre Dame. We are squeezing into the train car and dont think any more people can fit in. Well these three, yes 3 guys think they can squeeze in too so they just back on in. Im falling and reach up to grab the pole and smack the lady next to me in the head, not hard. So I'm apologizing like crazy. Well at the next stop a rush of people pushes against me to leave the car so I go to let go and hit her again this time in the back of the head. She got out and moved to the next car, and I dont blame her one bit!

Lake Powell

Ok so im SUPER slacking in getting this post up and running.
I have nothing to blame but my super self slackiness.
ok ive had to revise this like 3 times.. but its got all it needs now..

Hiking Mt Olympus

So Katie texted me last night with the brilliant idea of hiking Mt Olympus.
Ive always had a fear, or aversion to that mountain ever since my first hike up it. It was my first hike with the scouts. I was ill equiped. I had my fathers frame backpack, a bowl of leftovers in a cool whip container and TWO otter pops. Ps it was an over nighter. It was awefull to say the least.
But today really kicked my butt and Im really glad I did it. I conquered that mountain in just the morning. We got to the trailhead at 645am and were down by 1130.
Heres the pics.

Watch out world...

Here I come.. So this is my birthday present to myself this year. My extravagant purchase for my 30th birthday.. How did I do?

Itly? What you doin in Itly?

Katie and I got to tag along again on one of Mom and Pops adventures. They and a group of friends rented a villa in Tuscany. Yes in Italy, about a 45 min train ride outside of Florence.
I took the Redeye flight to JFK where I met Katie later that day (after a nice long nap on the floor in the sun) Together (me in first class her in coach)(but I did score her 3 seats to herself so don't look at me like that) we took the flight to Milan. There we had to find the bus (it only took going the wrong way once) that took us to Milano Centrale train station. From there it was a 2h45m train ride to Florence, then another 45m train ride to the station at the bottom of the hill from the villa. There we waited for mom and pop to fetch us in the little Ford Fiesta and zoom up to the villa..

We did Pisa, Cinque Terre, Venice, Florence and spent the last two nights in Lake Como.
Here are a GRUNDLE of pictures from each place so I'll put them in different categories so you can see each area.
ENJOY....

Getting There..

The Villa Zingale

Pisa

Cinque Terre

Venice

Florence

Lake Como

Mo Como

A New York Afternoon

So Ive been working a lot lately. I don't how many people are aware that Im working in a new capacity at work since my dream of becoming a flight attendant was shot down.
I was hired on to be a Lead (in training) on one of the concourses at the airport. My new job means that Im responsible for about 9 agents, making sure they know their job and complete their trainings. I also get to do the schedule for the day, assigning agents to work the flights we have on our concourse.
Well normally there are 4 of us that do this job. For about the past 2 weeks, it feels like its just me, either my coworkers are out on vacation or attending funerals of loved ones or buying a new home. Its been me holding down the fort.
Because Ive been working so much Ive only been taking 1 day off a week. So this past Monday I decided to spend the day with my sister and my nephew, they just happen to live in NYC. So I hopped the redeye flight sunday night, scoring 3 seats in coach to myself. I landed to a rainy day in NYC at 730 in the morning. I was able to get to Liz and Marks place by about 930 and thats when the fun started.

I was greeted by this little chunk of a man and his beautiful mother. I was pretty tired since I didnt get too much sleep after working and then hopping a plane. Fortunately it was morning nap time for the little man and so we were able to crash out together for about 45 mins. Then we hit the town. I wish I'd have taken more pictures of the three of us but I had Truman in the ERGO baby carrier and ported his little bum around for 5 hours from 59th street (columbus circle) all the way down to 34th street shopping and just seeing the city. He slept pretty much the entire way, he only woke up when we stopped for lunch at Whole Foods.

We shopped through TimeSquare and on to 34th street where I found some cute undies at H&M my fave store, and Liz found two very cute polo style shirts at a little hole in the wall called JJ's that I would never have gone into thinking they had anything Liz might like but she knows her city and where to shop for what she wants. She amazes me that NYC has really become her town, she knows it very well. I would still probably be overwhelmed.
One last pic of me and the cute little booger and Ill end my trip with me hopping on the 7pm flight the same day and heading back to slc. Returning home 24hrs after Id left it. A long but a totally fun trip to see my little sis and her ADORABLE baby boy.
I love you Liz and I had a great time with you guys in the city. We have to do it again!!!