ROAD TRIPPPPP!!!

AAAAHHHHHH we're going on a ROAD TRIP!!! In half an hour me and Elysse are driving nearly 10 hours down to North Carolina to see our friend Maggie (and meet Paige and Jenna there). We're celebrating Jenna's 21st birthday in an epic way, so we're starting in the Outer Banks, then going to Maryland, Pittsburgh, Huntingdon, Kennywood... though not necessarily in that order. Then Elysse and I go back to New York on August 1st.

I'll try to post from the road, especially during the 10 hours of driving so y'all know where in the world I am, like Carmen Sandiego.

:)

I took a bath this evening

Developed a recipe for the vegan banana granola peanut butter soy smoothie! Here 'tis:

V.B.G.P.B.S. Smoothie
1.5 bananas, sliced
1/3 cup granola
1/2 cup soy milk
1 Tbsp peanut butter

Put all of the ingredients in the blender and blend until smooth. Pour into a tall glass and pop in a straw. That's it! You could probably add strawberries or whatever else you like--shredded coconut might be good--or adjust the recipe according to your taste preferences. By adding more peanut butter, e.g. That'd be my suggestion. Or scrapping the smoothie and eating the peanut butter au naturel.

On Thursday Elysse and I are driving down to Gettysburg to meet up with her friends from school, and then the five of us are going to epic-road-trip down to the outer banks of North Carolina, stay there for a few nights, then up to Pittsburgh, then camp out somewhere in the outskirts of that area. We'll be away 10 days, and I'm so excited! There will definitely be pictures from this trip. I know I said I'd post pictures from our trip to Princeton, but the pictures were kind of meh, disappointing. I need to exercise my poor camera*!

*which I have decided to name Jameson... colon-capital-D

The Old Man and the Bench

The original of this photo is waaay big so I had to scale it down majorly. I took this picture a little less than a year ago during the Hillel service trip to New Orleans last spring break. He was sitting outside the Café du Monde with his prim tailored suit and matching hat, reading the newspaper. His wrists are bone-thin, and I think it's somewhat spectacular the way you can see the tendons in his right hand (the human body: it works!). He looks like his name could be Lawrence or Horace (and he wouldn't go by a nickname), maybe a retired professor of something who now spends each Sunday at the café having a cup of coffee and a beignet. He might also be a librarian. In my imagination he has no children but is a wonderful uncle and great-uncle to his siblings' kids.

By the way, I plan on getting a farther-zooming camera lens soon, so there will be more recent photos in the near future :)