Showing posts with label Friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friends. Show all posts

January 04, 2012

Hello 2012

Hey Emma!


Sounds like your trek was gruesome!  I'm proud that you made it and in record time at that.  Good work.


Paul and I rang in the new year in the suburbs of Chicago with some friends.  I wish you would have been there... my purse caught on an old lady's hair (well, relatively old) and she yelled at me!  It seriously did nothing to her hair but lift a tiny piece for like 5 seconds.  Later, when we were walking by her again, she told her friends I was "the {insert naughty word} who messed up her hair."  Can you believe her!  The nerve!  I walked out of the ballroom and around the outside when I needed to get back to the dance floor as I didn't want to chance seeing her again.




I could have really used your back-up on the dance floor too!  Some crazy drunk girl stole Ashish's party hat and gave it to her boyfriend.  When Tina went over to confront her, she snatched the Happy New Year tiara right off Tina's head.  Then they started elbowing and trying to invade our space... I had none of the space invading.  They may or may not have run into my very sharp elbows while I was doing some amazing dance moves, and then backed down...  I mean seriously, who acts like that at a new years party?!  (well, they also might have cleared away because someone kept passing some serious gas and I kept turning around and telling them to stop stinking up the place... though we will never really know if it was them, the smell did subside once they moved on!)  




All in all it was a really fun night!  You would have really enjoyed the snack buffet at midnight... and the brunch the next day too!  


Did you do anything exciting for New Year's Eve?  Your photos all look amazing so far, and I'm trying desperately not to be jealous!  Miss you!


Yours with love- Anna

December 14, 2011

Introducing Free Oranges!

Once upon a time two kindred spirits met in Beijing, China.  It was 2007, year of the pig, and a year for so much more...


Emma and Anna were both teaching English in Beijing and happened to meet through mutual friends.  They shared a love for fun and adventure... they quickly became best friends and travel buddies.  




Though they thoroughly enjoyed Beijing... the food, the culture, moonlighting as socialites in the expatriate scene... they traded in the VIP treatment and comfort of their belongings and apartments to rough it around SouthEast Asia!  




After 10 planes, 56 buses, 29 tuk-tuks, 12 ferries, 11 taxis, 9 subways, 2 motorcycles, 1 elephant, 1 bamboo raft, and 1 rickshaw, Emma and Anna parted ways.  Emma was back in Australia and Anna was back in the USA.  Even with 14,000 km/8,900 miles between them, Emma and Anna remained close.


Emma has even been to the USA to visit twice!  Once for the road trip, "16 states, 8 trucker hats, and Route 66," and the other time for Anna's wedding.




It was on their epic road trip across America and back again that Emma and Anna saw a billboard...


Fill up at Shell and get a free bag of oranges!!!  
"What would we do with a free bag of oranges?" -Anna
"Eat them, juice them, throw them at people...cars..." -Emma


Though we still haven't decided what we would do with free oranges one thing is certain... no matter where we are in the world, or in life for that matter, we will always remain close!  There is no better way to stay in touch than to send postcards... all across the world... so that the people that matter most can have a glimpse into life as we know it.  


What would you do with a bag of free oranges?