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Christmas in NYC
Hi, friends! I just returned from NYC yesterday after spending a few days in the city with my sisters and cousin. This was actually my second time ever visiting NYC (my first time being back when I was in middle school) so I had to document this trip on the blog! This will be a bit of a chaotic highlight of the trip, which is an accurate representation of the trip itself. CHRISTMAS THINGS New York City in Christmas time was so special! There was Christmas decor everywhere throughout the city which really got me in the mood for the holiday season. We hit the most of the major photo…
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We’re Engaged!
Last Sunday, Alex and I went to Winston to take holiday photos and we got engaged there! I have been taking photos on the Old Salem Heritage Bridge with the Moravian stars during the holiday season since college, and it became a tradition of ours since a few years ago. So when Alex brought up taking holiday photos on the Bridge again this year, I didn’t question it too much. The last couple of months have been pretty hectic so I was feeling pretty lukewarm about the idea to be quite honest… Coordinating schedules in Q4 is not fun, you know?! Thankfully, my older sister, Jiyoung, was able to come…
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What I Read in November 2022
Happy December, friends! Per usual, I’m a few days into the month before sharing what I read last month. 😉 I had another prolific reading month largely thanks to audiobooks. Here’s everything I read in November: VIOLETA by Isabel Allende – 3 stars After reading Isabel Allende’s The House of Spirits last year, I had been looking forward to her 2022 release Violeta. Like many of Allende’s works, Violeta is expansive and ambitious, spanning one hundred years of Violeta’s life. Despite Violeta’s first-person narrative, I lost interest towards the second half of the book (though that could be attributed to the length of the book as it’s a bit longer…
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Monthly Mumbles 2022.11.30
Hello, folks! I am writing this on the last day of November, which possibly is my favorite month of the year, partially because it’s my birthday month and partially because it’s officially the holiday season in my books. This November was a fun and busy month. Here are all the things I was up to in November: We returned to DPAC for the first time since the pandemic began to watch Dear Evan Hansen! I had never seen the show before and heard great things about it, which all turned out to be true. We made a whole date night out to it by going to Pompieri for pizza beforehand…
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Beacon Hill Books & Cafe in Boston
I went to Boston for my 30th birthday earlier month, and at the top of the itinerary was Beacon Hill Books & Cafe, which recently opened in Beacon Hill neighborhood. It’s seriously one of the cutest bookshops I have ever been in! It’s a four-story townhome(?) that has been beautifully renovated and converted to a bookstore. Every corner of the bookstore feels special and well-thought out. The day we went was a beautiful November day with unbelievable weather, and the bookshop was absurdly crowded (the busiest they had ever been according to one of the employees) so I couldn’t get a ton of good photos of the space. One of…
