festival season

It is my favorite time of year - festival season!  This time of year is perfect for the single ladies as the men walk around in the latest GQ style, the booze is flowing and evening porch sitting is almost expected.

It is also a time for budding romances and bad decisions...

The season kicked off last weekend and looks like it will be going strong for a while.  This year started with a bang as we scored VIP tickets - meaning cheap beer, sort skirts, sunshine and late night pizza. 

As with every spring love is in the air.  Everywhere you look everyone is in love to the point where it is almost gross - people walking around holding hands, kissing mid-conversation, giggling, and Barry White all play a big part of spring.  As the weather warms up this love either grows into something or people realize they made some bad porch-drinking decisions.

The truth is - I am in love with love.  I can't get enough of it...

I love the butterflies and hand-holding and over-the-top mush found in the movies.  I love the giddiness that comes with those first few weeks of dating (and I miss the note passing "Do you like me? Check YES or NO" of loves from long ago.

That is why festival season is so great - you get to venture out and enjoy being in love with everything, every weekend for weeks on end!  You get to fall in love with your city, watch new love budding in the air, eat corn dogs (who doesn't love that?!) and fall in love with love, over and over! 

So, here's to festival season.  May it be filled with endless laughter, hand-holding, flowing dresses, first kisses, and bad decisions that we don't regret the next day.  Here's to being in love with spring. 

of giraffes and cocktails

Last week we were invited to an after hours event at the zoo where cocktails met wild animals and we got to attempt to feed four very sweet looking giraffes.

Naturally I wore a safari inspired outfit, in hopes that it would attract attention from a very tall giraffe. The type of attention we received wasn't what I has in mind - the giraffes ignored us, stuck their tongues out and overall had nothing to do with us.

Thankfully there was free flowing wine...

As we wandered and giggled at the animals we met a rhino, were teased by a lions roar, and encountered two humping tortoises. Laughter filled the zoo and we chatted about Marc Jacobs, mouse slippers, the rules of dating, Facebook unfriending and my friends' desire for me to date someone just for the festival perks. Wine kept finding our glass, the giraffes kept teasing us and the night ended with us giggling and texting photos of the randy tortoises to people - including a tv host with a silly caption.

The funnest part of the evening was realizing my friends and I enjoy eachother just as we are - flawed, with silly stories and endless laughter. The giraffes, and men in my life have some serious competition - but more on that later.