wading in the velvet sea

I FINALLY TURNED 21!
sunday at midnight we went out to juanita greenberg's, one of my favorite places to eat in charleston, and we hung out there til they kicked everyone out at 2am.

it was so fun! 

i didn't plan on drinking very much, just because i've been nasty sick these past few days, but once the bartender found out it was my birthday he was very generous with the alcohol....i had such a good time! i even got to see hillary, who stayed an extra night in charleston just to hang out with me on my bday!

we went to santi's last night for a delish mexican meal and wonderful margaritas...my first time at santi's! so good! and super cute and eclectic. the margaritas tasted so fresh and reminded me of the pisco sours we had in peru (the peruvian national drink. i wanna go baaack!). also, there were 10 of us who went---who knew i knew so many people?? surprising...
 

a comet appears

my parents came down last weekend and we enjoyed one of the most beautiful weekends that charleston has seen in a while.  since it's been so rainy lately [ughh] it was so nice to be able to spend the entire weekend outside without a single cloud in sight.

we ate lunch at the farmer's market, went on a tour of the haunted jail, walked what seemed like the entire circumference of charleston [with beautiful, relaxing breaks at waterfront park and colonial lake], and enjoyed meals at three of my favorite restaurants---fuel, basil and bull street gourmet.

on sunday, we spent a few hours taking photographs up and down smith street/bull street. then we went closer to the center of the city and took lots of photos in the old historical cemeteries that make charleston "the holy city."

and there was a full moon sunday! it was the perfect weekend....right before all my professors crammed every assignment into the one week before fall break.

a poem on the underground wall

sometimes i get really stressed out and really tired and there's not much i can do to focus myself. like the kind of tired when you just stare at an empty space on the wall and zone out.

riding my bike through charleston's confusing one-way streets and down by the battery is a nice way to clear my head and remind myself how great my life is. so i think a bike ride is in order.

here's a picture of my beautiful friend stephanie on my beautiful bike sophomore year. this was taken the weekend of my 19th birthday....we saw the shins in concert the night before, had five loaves for lunch and basil for dinner, and we had both just dyed part of our hair red and shannon's purple [tried to anyway].
best. weekend. ever.

random blog, but whatever.