Longwood Gardens

Yesterday me and dan drove out 45 minutes west of Philadelphia to stop by the Dansko outlet to get me a pair of those magical dansko clogs everyone else in the health proffesion wears. They are so blasted expensive, I have been waiting years to get a pair, and this wonderful outlet had them at half off! I currently have them on and have been wearing them from the moment I bought them, I even debated sleeping in them.

We also stopped by Longwood Gardens. It is a property donated by the Du Pont family with over a 1,000 acres of garden and greenhouses. Since it is winter the main attraction was the extensive greenhouse complex, and they are currently having an orchid show which was pretty amazing. Pictures can't quite capture how gorgeous everything was, so this is a new spot we plan on taking anyone who comes to visit us!

Now wouldn't it be nice if I had a sweet SLR camera to take all of those flower pictures with, if you vote yes, call daniel and tell him :)

REWIND

I like the blog catch-up that corine did, so I thought I would copy. Starting with some pictures from the halloween party a few of us young couples from the South Philly branch had:


Everyone trying to play the oreo game

I was really great at balancing it on my head but for the life of me could not get it into my mouth!

Definately winner of the cutest costume.

Everyone decked out.

My and Dan's costume: Ed Mcman and surprised winner whom just got out of the shower.


The coolest costume: farmer and turkey (she is inside a skin coloured hooded sweatshirt - you must be especially agile to wear this costume).

CAUTION: before watching this make sure your bladder is pre-voided.

In this clip we are playing the 'minute to win it' game where you have to shake all of the ping pong balls out of the empty tissue box attached to your derriere.
(sorry about my evil cackle in the background)

For thanksgiving we had a few families over at our place, we cooked up a turkey and ham and let everyone bring the rest of the food, best idea ever!

I am pretty sure this is the most beautiful thing I have ever baked.

So this is it for the holiday catch-up, sorry, no pictures from christmas, we got lazy :)