travels
mama says you went when you were exquisite.
Last month was fun filled to say the least. I rang in the big 2-5 in style with drag queen entertainment, saw Tom Green doing stand-up and was able to snag tickets to The Adventures of Pete and Pete reunion in NYC. As much as I have grown up, I still love what I love and have total respect for what I grew up watching and listening to because it’s helped shaped me into the lady I am today. Even as an adult now, The Adventures of Pete and Pete is still so charming, poignant, genius and just funny to me not to mention nostalgic and that little TV-show has inspired me in more ways than I can even recognize. I was even Little Pete for Halloween back in 2006! I have vivid memories of entertaining or annoying(maybe both) my partner in science class in middle school by singing the Tom Green Show theme song, nearly peeing my pants laughing watching the very hilarious Subway Monkey Hour special on MTV, trying Quiznos subs because Tom Green told me too after the millennium on his new show and watching his online talk show and nearly peeing my pants laughing again. Finally seeing him in person was exciting to say the least and my mouth was sore afterwards from all the laughing and smiling.
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come on be my baby tonight.
A few months ago I was able to fulfill a dream by visiting the beautiful city of New Orleans, Louisiana. There are so many things that surprised and excited me about the city and mainly the French Quarter but its just one of those places I knew I would love. The character and charm in that city is abundant along with the great food and liquor. Not to sound like an alcoholic but I think truly the thing that fascinates me to this day the most is the fact that you can walk around outside and drink, maybe because in New York its taboo and you would actually get fined/put in the back of a cop car for doing so but its also very homey and not as uptight a city as NY is. I have fashioned myself a kind of “Southern” girl on the inside even though I have lived on Long Island all my life so it was nice to be in a city that was warm in temperature in the cold winter months of NY but also warm in personality. The thing that most inspired me to want to see the city was back in 1999 when the Real World did a season there, kind of a cheesy reason but I really loved the cast that season and was really drawn to the culture even though I was barely a teenager then. I found out where the house was located and had to take a picture outside(as seen above) the house doesn’t quite look the same as it did then but its such a gorgeous vintage home on its own. Of course I had to name this post after the unequivocal theme song of that season which I had playing in my head for the duration of my trip.
punching the ocean.
Saying goodbye to the beach, ocean and warm weather at the end of the season..
on the road again.
Some more photos from my travels this summer that I pulled out of my
as happy as pappy with his trains.
This summer a railroad attraction opened up near where I vacation in upstate, NY. Once I heard that Railroads On Parade existed I knew I had to go after visiting Roadside America in 2009. So I popped on the vintage train printed dress I fatefully packed and took my cheesy dressed self off to be swept away for an hour to see some miniature trains and miniature people.
the magical forest.
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of fulfilling a long-term dream/goal of mine of visiting The Magic Forest with my niece. I never went there when I was little because my parents always took my siblings and I to the bigger amusement park down the road, The Great Escape. Soon after my niece was born though I decided once she was of age we were going because I wanted her to have the pictures she should have on kitschy old vintage rides like we all had growing up(which The Great Escape no longer provides due to the Six Flags takeover of the park !#$@). And of course I wanted to see what vintage goodies they had for my own personal enjoyment so it was a win win! CAUTION! Image heavy post!
clam chowder and french fries.
Now:
Many afternoons of my childhood were spent walking the board walk and on the soft, sandy beaches of Jones Beach. I have great memories there, playing on the pirate ship, fainting along the shore, burning my legs going down the molten lava hot slide and eating Manhattan clam chowder and french fries with my parents. I hadn’t been there for 10 years or so until this September. It was one of the last official days of summer, and the temperatures had already started to lower but I loved the trip just the same. I especially loved how little things had changed, when I had thought most of the buildings I had walked around would have surely been torn down by now. Although I was a bit under the weather, I still managed to have fun in my Bicycle printed romper, that I was wearing for the first time. I finally found a romper that actually fits my long torso! I think most of my clothing has some sort of print on it except for most of my tops because I just loveeee a wacky print! When I found this one in a thrift store I gasped so loud and pulled it off the shelf so fast it was Mike from American Pickers speed(high five if you get that).
what a day for a daydream.
Friday afternoon was spent at a local museum partaking in a exhibit of kitchens throughout history. My dream kitchen was even there in my favorite color. Unfortunately my camera battery died and I was left to my cell phone’s camera ugh.
lookie here, kid.
I was doing more family research on Ancestry today and I decided to take a look at some pictures we had. One really stood out to me..
My nanny(mothers, mother), my mother and uncle in July 1964:
And then there’s me in Summer 2009:
hearts, meg
i enter the wilderness with nothing but a childish sense of wonder.
Besides embarking on THE roadtrip, we also did some traveling to my familys lakehouse in Upstate, NY and even ventured off to a beautiful rock cave nearby that I had never been to. It was filled with flowing waters, trees, mushrooms, moss♥ and of course rocks!
