sperlonga, italy

we needed some new prints to hang in the bathroom so i decided to pull up some of our italy photos from our trip this summer. i'm not going to lie, getting to this sleepy little beach town in italy was probably the most frustrating part of our trip but it was so incredibly worth it.

we traveled from our flat in rome by bus to the train station. 

we missed the train to sperlonga by 2 minutes. therefore, we waited at the train station for two hours for the next train.

once we got to sperlonga we missed the bus to the beach by 10 minutes, therefore we waited at the train station for 1.5 hours for the next bus. 

once we got to sperlonga, we realized we didn't have beach towels so we went on the hunt to purchase some towels.

we quickly realized that all the shops closed from 1-3 pm for nap time. 

at this point we felt insanely defeated so we dragged ourselves into a hotel and begged the hotel staff to let us borrow some beach towels. since we weren't guests of the hotel they kindly offered a beach towel rental rate of 2 euros a person. DEAL!

so nearly 5 hours after leaving our flat in rome, we finally sunk our toes in the sand and enjoyed the beaches of italy where the romans frolicked to escape the city heat (even without modern transportation i'm sure the romans figured out a way to get to this beach in less than 5 hours). 

europe in two weeks and two days

i've never been to europe. and it's pretty clear that i've been dying to go. so the mr. and i are finally going to make it across the pond. and this is all happening:

3 days in Paris

1 day in Venice

1 day in Lake Como 

4 days in Rome 

i honestly couldn't tell you which leg of the trip i'm anticipating the most. perhaps it's the chocolate croissants in paris or maybe the gelato in italy....but more than likely it will be the vatican in rome or the van gogh pieces in venice. the more i think about it the more anxious i become. so for now, the plan is to just get on that plane with an empty stomach and eyes wide open.

{ Hello! Las Vegas }

me and the mr. are headed to las vegas tomorrow morning. i don't know if this happens to everyone but i always get a little anxious before a trip to sin city. 

i always thought it was the energy from all the sins, or i could blame it on the gobs of money i've lost on wheel of fortune, or the boring car rides to our final destination of Circus Circus as a kid, or perhaps it was from my time in corporate event production when i spent a week a month, for a whole year, producing events in the chilling ballrooms of the venetian. once, i went 7 days (that's right, 7 entire days) without seeing daylight.

lets hope this trip to vegas is filled with so much fun that it helps me forget how much i dislike vegas.

i think "old vegas" was much more my style. 

{ hello! travel: washington dc }

i'm currently in dc for work but i managed to sneak away and explore a bit since this is my first time in our nation's capitol. i hardly got to see everything i wanted to see but i saved the real real good stuff for my trip back in a couple months with my honey. here's a list of the few things i conquered today (thanks to a few awesome recommendations from a fellow blogger). 

1. newseum -- breathtaking and jawdropping. i got lost in this wonderful tribute to photojournalism and traditional journalism. 

2. holocaust museum -- i'll be returning to this tribute in a few months but i did get a chance to tour a few of the exhibits, they were equal parts heart wrenching and utterly moving. 

3. lincoln memorial -- wow. wow. wow. and i saw it during the day. i hear the night time will completely knock your socks off. i shall wait to see this one under the light of the moon in a couple months with my honey.

4. Navy concert band -- at the U.S. Navy memorial -- this was a chance stumbling as i was walking back to my hotel after dinner (talk about lucky)!

and lastly this day could not have been possible without the help from my friends at tour mobile -- such a great sightseeing tour company. they have stops throughout the city and you can hop off and hop on at your own pace. 

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