Italy Summit

On Saturday Brad and I got together with his sister Shana, their dad, and Shana's friend BJ & her husband Ryan to begin planning our Italy trip in the fall. We have pretty much planned out the whole two weeks, and may be just a bit ambitious with all the cities we would like to visit ;)

This is roughly our itenerary:

Fly into Paris (spend a couple days just Brad & I)
Tuscany (meet up w/ his family & friends)
Rome
Amalfi Coast (Positano, Sorrento)
Naples (seriously going solely for a slice of pizza--YKYFW)
Sicily (Relax, maybe boat out to visit some islands)
Fly back up to Pisa (and head to Cinque Terra for a day)
Fly from Pisa up to Germany for our random flight out of Frankfurt, back to Seattle
Kind of have to travel around a little in a weird way, but because we are using miles it is making us fly in and out of odd places.

Here we are in our Italy Summit on Saturday evening. It was quite formal, handraising and all... ;)

We even found some boys getting Carried away...

The Ultimate Girl Night

It was just another Friday night in the city. Hanging out with my girlfriends, sipping martini's & chatting about our favorite episodes of Sex & The City, while dining on some fabulous food at Palomino. We were apparently not so discreet about our excitement for the 10:30 showing of SATC, as not one, but two different ladies from tables at opposite ends of the restaurant came over and asked us what we were out for, letting us know that their tables had "bets" on whether we were out for a birthday, bachelorette party or the SATC movie premiere. One woman hollered back to her friend "See, I told you they were going to the movie!!!"

We headed to the theater over an hour early to secure our spot in line, which ended up being about halfway back.

Kim, Courtney and Jamie are excited for the movie to begin!!!

It's finally here!

Tonight, along with 9 of my fabulous girlfriends, I will finally be seeing Sex & The City "The Movie"! I can't wait!!! In just a few short hours we are meeting downtown for apps (and Cosmos of course) and then heading to our 10:30 pm viewing of the movie. SUCH a fun girl night! I can't wait to see the movie...and I can't wait for this scene, seriously, what on earth are they wearing!?

UPDATE: Totally omitted scene, apparently???!!!

Okay one more post about it & then I'm done...

Well, at least until Friday night when I will share my thoughts on seeing the movie with all my girlfriends :) I was just reading the article on msn.com titled: "Love Lessons from Sex and the City" http://lifestyle.msn.com/beautyandfashion/cosmosexandthecity/articlecosmo.aspx?cp-documentid=7410497&GT1=32001. I loved this paragraph at the end:

"Case study: Carrie
The eternal single girl had her share of romances, chronicled in her weekly column, but the truest love story is the one she wrote for herself. Bad luck and messy breakups were de rigueur in Carrie's life. By surviving the pitfalls — a Manolo-mugging, a computer crash, and a very embarrassing fashion fall — Carrie gained the confidence and strength to continue her search for true love. "The most exciting, challenging, and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself," she said. "And if you find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous."
Lesson #7: Be fearlessly single.

I absolutely love the line: "The most exciting, challenging, and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous."

I think that is so important for everyone, in a relationship or not. So that's for all my girls today...

Once again, relating my life to SATC...or can I?

So today, I am working down in Renton holding an open house. I finish and I am STARVING. So, I go to the closest restaurant I can find...Taco Time (not that I am complaining, I do love the Time). So I get there and I am waiting in line to order and a girl runs in and yells "I'M BEING STALKED!!!" Everyone looks up for a brief moment and it was like the record screached to a halt and for a blink of an eye it was silent. Then a mere moment later the noise continued and everyone picked up doing what they were doing & paid no attention to the girl. "I"m being stalked!" she yelled again desperately looking around for someone to listen to her. For one moment, I felt that I was in the episode of Sex & The City where Carrie is mugged on the streets of New York and the thief takes her Manolos right off her feet. She runs in and yells "I'VE BEEN MUGGED!" No one in the whole barber shop even looks up, or seems to care what has happened to her. It slightly reminded me of the situation I had found myself in with this alledged stalkee in front of me. The woman at the counter calmly asked if she was in danger and if she needed them to call the police. Then this trashy girl goes into honestly a 5 minute long story about how her MOTHER is "stalking" her, and how she had hunted her down at her job across the parking lot at QFC and ran in & started cursing at her in front of customers, and wants to steal her baby back, blah blah blah. And then I quickly remembered that I was in Renton, at Taco Time...listening to a 20 year old girl tell a story about her mother, "the stalker", to the cashier and I realized that no, my life is nothing like Sex & The City today. Maybe if the mom stole the girl's shoes at gunpoint perhaps?

Conclusion: I must just be REALLY excited for the movie on Friday...

The Kocher Yacht

The second one was christening The Kocher's new boat! It is absolutely gorgeous! We took it out for a spin Sunday night and boated to Kirkland for dinner at the Cactus. And no night is complete without some absurd dancing/rapping while drinking champagne ;) The night went from normal to crazy in about 3 seconds...