Emma and Topher's wedding!

HI!! I'm finally back! It has been a whirlwind past couple of weeks, and I appreciate you all bearing with me for my extended missingness. This past weekend I was back at Cornell for Emma and Topher's wedding, and I am SO excited to share pictures with you! The wedding was absolutely beautiful, perfectly put together, and an all-around awesome time back in Ithaca with some awesome people! From the hockey game at Lynah rink the night before, to a photo shoot in front of the clock tower, to the gorgeous reception site, here are some pictures from the wedding extravaganza:

*Thanks to the various 121ers I stole most of these photos from :)

♥Cornell♥

Cornell University, you have my heart.

Today I took a ride up to Ithaca with Emily, and we spent the afternoon on campus. It made me love and miss Cornell even more than I already do! This marks 1+ years post-grad and I stand by my belief that college is the best years of your life.

Ithaca is gorges (yeah I said it) in the summertime, and campus was surprisingly busy. It was not the same being on campus without the Class of 2009, but it was nice to relive some of my favorite Cornell things for the afternoon!

First things first - I picked up a Statler salad. How do I even begin to describe the Statler salad? I think it's something you have to experience to understand. It's good enough to spend 20 minutes waiting in a 50+ person line - every day. You heard me right; senior year I had a Statler salad for lunch day in and day out. There's just something so great about picking ingredients for your own salad, unlimited toppings, and delicious dressings. There's also something so great about wasting away the afternoon enjoying your salad with 8 of your closest friends. That, in a nutshell, is the greatness that is the Statty salad. Feast your eyes on today's creation:

Oh, and a side of sweet potato fries :)

Then we wandered around campus snapping pics with Emily's amazing camera...

I didn't even try to resist getting this AMAZING cover for my iPod.

Here is Sage Chapel, where Emma and Topher are getting married in August! Cannot WAIT for the wedding!

Finally, we stopped for some Dairy Bar ice cream.

We got Nutty Buddy Franklin: peanut butter ice cream with fudge swirls and peanut butter cups.

This is the "one scoop" size. Puh-leez.

I only got this far in. You know I am not one to throw away ice cream ("there's always room!") but it really was that big. But oooh so delicious.

See you in August, beautiful Cornell!

Happy Birthday, Crotty!

Despite the robbery scandal, I headed to NYC this past Saturday to celebrate Miss Crotty's birthday and catch up with some Cornell friends!

There were cupcakes, courtesy of Francesca...

Barefoot Contessa Coconut Cupcakes with Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting - yum!

...Mini macs (unfortunately sans photo) a la Katie Post. Sooooooo yum yum yummy. Recipe here.

And lots of birthday fun!

Everyone in black, so New Yorker!

Happy Birthday, Katherine!

Let's go RED!

Friday night I went to the Cornell/Harvard hockey game with a whole bunch of Cornellians. I also popped in to the Cornell/Harvard basketball game to see the cheerleaders! It was so fun to catch up with so many people I haven't seen in months (some since graduation!) and was even better because we won BOTH games!!

Afterward we went to John Harvard's in Harvard Square and celebrated the wins by taking over the bar with a sea of red and white. There were definitely bar-wide chants of "Let's go red!" Such a fun Cornell night!

 

 

WELCOME NEW (old) ROOMIE!

Fina moved in today!!! Though I was sad to see Louise (my fellow 121er in Boston) go, I was (and am) super excited to live with Fina again...we have quite the history:

It all started freshmen year, in our (not so) beloved Balch Hall..

Sophomore year we lived in good old Campus Hill and apparently spent so much time with each other we started to dress alike...

Junior year we lived far, far away from each other (roughly .25 miles)

Senior year we lived even farther away from each other (~.3 miles)

And now we are finally reunited in Boston!!

Hurray!

Far above Cayuga's waters...

After a night of reminiscing about highschool, I had a day of reminiscing about college...well, sort of. I went to Ithaca for lunch with my mom, sister, and brother and was sad to see how completely deserted it was!! Cornell and Collegetown were total ghost towns (though I'm sure the -18 degree windchill didn't help) and CTB wasn't even open! Fortunately, Ithaca Bakery was and I was able to fulfill my desire for a breadbowl there...yum! I would say it was good to be back in Ithaca but honestly it made me a little sad, and definitely made me miss Cornell a lot.

I was surprised to see that Ithaca now has an Urban Outfitters...who knew?? I got an adorable new wallet :)



Here are some things I miss about Cornell!...

121 and Professor Blueberry

Cheerleading!

Doing silly and ridiculous things, for no reason (ahem, rephrase: ...lack of responsibility)

Our beautiful campus!!