excerpts from my bucket list

1.  visit italy, peru, norway, greece, australia, and egypt.

2.  publish a novel,

3.  drink mint juleps and wear a hat at the kentucky derby.

4.  watch michigan win the rose bowl live in pasadena.

5.  buy a boat.

6.  ride in a hot air balloon.

7.  take my kids and grandkids to disneyworld.

8.  see a live performance at the paris opera house.

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so good news and bad news: the bad news is i was still wrestling with malware last night so i didn't get a chance to upload photos from the sculpture park (it's really an outdoor art musuem, i promise you should totally come back and check out the photos because meijer gardens is so beautiful it is unreal).

but the good news is: i feel like a computer whiz kid because i eradicated the virus from my laptop all by myself!  and i have a functioning computer once more!  huzzah!

more paris photos

accordian player by lover's bridge

interior of sainte-chappelle

the luxembourg gardens were one of my favorite parts of the trip

i wish we could have had dinner on one of the river boats... psst... steve, next time!!

i'm really getting a kick out of this photoshop thing.  happy tuesday!

more photos from paris

notre dame

notre dame interior

lovers bridge, i wonder who cassandra and oscar are?

cafe and bicycles

some awesome street art and the ruined church of st merri near the pompidou centre

it's making me want to go back

*sigh*

paris and computers

my job demands that i use a great deal of adobe inDesign, but i've only just now decided i want to get some practice using Photoshop.  last summer, as a graduation gift my parents took me and my sister to paris for a week.  we stayed in the cutest little boutique hotel nestled between a wine shop and a patisserie.  since i never uploaded the photos i took in paris this summer i've decided to give myself a little practice with photoshop by editing my vacation photos before uploading.  here's a preview!

notre dame