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- We went into the city a lot.

- We had the cutest (and yummiest) mini burgers at Pop Burger!

- I finally got my ring resized at Tiffany’s and they did it in a day, good service!

- We got stuck in the snow for over an hour in NYBoy’s mustang.

- We decorated the best Christmas tree ever – and ditched the traditional angel topper with Bebek, Mr. Rabbit and the blue doll (childhood toys, guess which belongs to each person).

My favorite presents this year?
My Juicy Couture iphone cover, and my limited edition Barbie T3 hairdryer!

- Went to the beach after the snow!

- Made a trip down to Washington, DC to show Mumu the sights and museums. It was SO cold there, my favorite part was getting astronaut icecream at the Smithsonian Air & Space museum.

- Did a loooottt of shopping.

My favorite purchases?
True Religion skinnies, a new Dooney & Bourke purse (I was thinking of getting a Longchamp, until I found this, it’s the same material but with a cross-body strap, which I loovvve) and my wedding dress.

I have an Arabic final to sit next week and then on the 21st we’re getting on another plane and flying back home (MY home this time, not his!).

I’m really looking forward to spending time on the beach, eating very yummy food and seeing my friends who I haven’t seen since I was back in Summer 2008. Until then, it’s study, study, study.

Happy New Year everyone!

I can’t believe it’s my final year here in St. Andrews.

And, I can’t believe the first semester is almost over!

On Friday NYBoy and I are leaving for (no prizes for guessing here) New York for Christmas.

I’m more excited about this trip than any other trip because I have an appointment on the 21st of December at the Bridal Garden! They sell designer gowns for up to 75% off retail price, and the proceeds go to charity.

I’m not expecting a Kleinfeld experience, but I AM hoping to find my dream dress. Fingers crossed!

I have one more assignment due before I fly out. This time we’re flying via Paris CDG and avoiding Heathrow, because I hate it.

I’ve ordered all my Christmas presents, and at this point I am itching to get on the plane and go on holiday!!

Goodbye New York…

HELLO SCOTLAND!!!!

We went to the Bronx zoo!

I LOVE zoo’s. So far this summer we’ve been to the National Zoo in DC and Pittsburgh Zoo, we would have made Dallas Zoo if it wasn’t for the rain

The Bronx zoo is one of my favorite zoo’s so far, it’s huge! And the rainforest section made me feel like I was at home – because I am a little homesick.

I brought my camera with me, but being the very clever girl that I am, it wasn’t charged. I had it plugged in overnight before but the plug must not have been put into the wall socket properly, because the camera was dead.

So I tried to use NYBoy’s phone to take pictures, which worked fine for things that were relatively close to us, but for things like the lions that were all the way on the other side of the enclosure, they look like brown dots in my photos.

Sea lions

Frogs

Monkeys

Mouse House

African Trail

CAMELS!

Forest Section

Himalayan Trail

Reptiles & Amphibians

Madagascar!

We spent like four hours at the zoo, and then I got my “treat” – a Starbucks protein plate and shaken iced tea lemonade for the drive home.

When I got home there was a big candy basket waiting for me, from an unknown sender – which I later found out was NYBoy. He knows I love my candy!!!!

We went to dinner with his mom and stepdad at a French restaurant where I had escargot (mmmm), hazelnut encrusted salmon and creme brulee for dessert! The waiter’s sang happy birthday and put a candle in my creme brulee, which made me feel very loved!

More presents waiting when we got home! Apparently Magic (the dog) prepared them while we were at dinner – a Hannah Montana star-shaped cushion, a September beanie baby and a pop-up card with cats on it, because cats are my favorite.

And last but not least, I had ICE CREAM CAKE!!!! A birthday isn’t a birthday without cake

I’m so tired, but overall it’s been an AMAZING day, and I could not love NYBoy any more than I do right now for making my birthday great even though I was so bummed out about being so far from home in the beginning!

NOTE: I meant to post this before I flew out to Dallas but fell asleep and forgot about it, I didn’t end up shopping much during Fashion’s Night Out, but I’m feeling much better now because I got to do some sponsored birthday shopping in Dallas and got way too happy in Anthropologie.

Read below if you still want to know what I did on Fashion’s Night Out….

Streets were PACKED.

I planned so many store visits but seriously underestimated how long I would spend in each store haha, so we never made it downtown.

I saw crowds around so many people, and I’m short so I couldn’t see who/what they were, but I DID see Gwen Stefani, Anna Wintour, Howie Day (performing at Bloomingdale’s), Daria Strokous + some other models I didn’t recognize.

Was at Saks when Justin Timberlake was, but couldn’t be bothered to weave through the crowd, and saw the line outside Versace where Taylor Momsen was… but couldn’t be bothered to do that either.

Okay, to be honest?

I got sick of the crowds very early on and decided to quit looking for the attractions and just to shop as normally as I could… which I can tell you was near impossible on Fashion’s Night Out.

Came home by midnight to get some z’s in before our early morning flight to Dallas!

Overall the highlight of my night was – attending Ferragamo’s very exclusive store party/art exhibition.

The not-so-great part was trying to buy anything because it was so packed.

End of the night I ended up getting the official FNO tee and Anne Klein booties.

THAT WAS ALL.

It was a good effort to boost retail activity etc etc, but I think in the end there were too many people there for the freebies/parties/celebrity-spotting rather than actual shopping.

I think I’m going to go on my big shopping spree another day.