dripping with passion

    ^^ inside the press box! ^^   ^^ from the top of the green monster! ^^ somehow i’d forgotten a little how perfectly charming and wonderful boston is, despite the weather. i truly love that city, especially dressed up for christmastime! we decided it was way too cold to be downtown for new years eve, so we had a super fancy dinner at saydi and jeff’s, followed by a dance party, games and martinelli toasts and banging pots and pans at midnight. ^^ jeff even got out his tux! ^^   ^^ and saydi made the most delicious beef tenderloin ^^   ^^ a screenshot from a video of our dance party, which was pretty epic ^^ on new years day, we went to wellesley, my alma mater (and saydi’s too!). everything was closed, so we couldn’t really go inside any of those beautiful buildings, but i looooved showing the campus i called home to the boy.     ^^ my first year dorm room is inside that bay window! ^^   ^^ this photo was taken by a six year old :) ^^ ...

here begins loads of posts about my thanksgiving-week-east-coast-tour. i took a red-eye to boston, which was a little bit terrible but toooootally worth it once i met saydi on the curb (and turned on the seat warmer in her car – holy cow the cold sure took my breath away) and shared hot oatmeal with these bed-headed children at their home in malden: saydi, hazel and i bundled up and drove out to our alma mater/future school – wellesley college. as always, it was so fun to be back on campus, to walk the paths of my college experience, to remember and be grateful. wellesley is a magical place.   we went to the common room and dining hall where both saydi and i spent so much time as college students, walked along the path by the lake (it was soooo bitter cold), stopped by the library, and enjoyed classic wellesley quirks like this sign and platform 9 3/4!     wellesley will always be a tender home and spectacular place for me. after our freezing walk around campus, we wen...