One week from today....

...we'll be wheels up from BOS --> EWR --> SJO.

CRAZY.



San Jose, here we come!

Maine Media Workshop

I had the incredible opportunity to spend last week in Rockport, Maine participating in the Maine Media Workshop's "Introduction to Digital Photography" course with Terry Abrams.

Best location.
Best professor.
Best classmates.
Best class.

I loved it! Here's a collage of some of my photos; I'm so excited to learn more! I'm going to take the camera home with me this weekend and keep practicing.

 

Betsy in Boston!

Betsy is awesome in many ways: awesome at Pit, awesomely kind, loyal and warm; awesome Christian woman; and not the least, an AWESOME photographer. Do ya get my drift? She's so young and so talented; God is going to do great things with her! I have no doubts. It's so fun to see someone so passionate about their job that it turns into a calling for them. Betsy, we love you, girlfriend!

We asked her to come and visit us in Boston, hanging out and taking some really fun pictures of the two of us to help memorialize our time here (and this time in our lives) as we don't know yet where we'll end up for medical school next year.

Check out the preview here: Photo by Betsy

(She's also entered this photo below into a contest; go here, click on #300 and help Betsy win!)

Moving on up....to Costa Rica!

Big news in the Blank house: in addition to officially putting in our application for medical school this week, we found out we're moving to Costa Rica for a year! We'll be moving in October and staying down there as long as we can until we move back to start med school in 2011.

Here's a map of the beautiful country so you can start to imagine where we'll be!

1,000 places to visit in Massachusetts

The Great Places in Massachusetts Commission (betcha can't guess what they do!) released a list of "1,000 Places to Visit in Massachusetts" earlier today.

I'll be busy this summer! Who can say R-O-A-D-T-R-I-P?

Oh what a weekend!

The warm weather - and the long holiday weekend - have inspired me to start checking off a few more things on my Boston to-do list, including:

Listening to the Boston Pops' 3rd of July preview concert


Photo courtesy Boston Globe/Travis Dove

Taking a day trip to Manchester-by-the-Sea and hearing its "Singing Beach"


Photo courtesy Manchester Cricket


Biking the ENTIRE (nearly 30 miles from door to door!) Minuteman Trail


Photo courtesy Wikipedia

Do you like my hat? ;-)

What a great weekend. Phew.

25 Things to do in New England for Less Than $25

I love to travel. But maybe what I love even more (well ok, maybe not more, but at least as much!) than traveling is getting a great deal while I'm doing it!

I was looking through these ideas from the Globe today and thought I'd share in case it inspires you to get out and explore your hometown, too!


(Photos courtesy Boston Globe)

Happy 4th of July!