My first week as a SCAD Grad!

 My first week since the end of the quarter has been quite eventful. I spent Friday packing up my apartment, lunching with my friend Allie, and (like every other girl between 15 & 35) seeing the new Twilight movie. We had puppy playtime at lunch- it was a great way to get over the stress of finals and packing. And the Twilight movie was (as usual) awful and wonderful at the same time. I left Savannah early Saturday morning. It was a little sad to see my gutted closet. Its been a great apartment- and I'll definitely miss it when I leave. I took a little homage picture of my apartment when I left so that I can wistfully look back when I'm in a teensy NY apartment.

When I arrived back in Tallahassee, my family took me out to Kool Beanz, my favorite restaurant! The next two days I hunted down cold weather clothes, got to catch up with my grandparents, and worked on unpacking from Savannah and repacking for Colorado. Yesterday we arrived in Colorado to spend Thanksgiving in Denver with my sister. I'm definitely more of a warm weather person, but it has been nice to get some use out of my scarves, gloves, and boots! My parents had surprised us with tickets to see the Lion King broadway musical, so we went to that last night. It was SO good. It is hard not to get a little sniffly actually knowing the wonder that is East Africa. Watching Lion King makes me wish I was back in Tanzania so badly.

This morning we drove to Estes Park. The drive was really lovely. I love day trip adventures and the quick transition from plains to mountains here. It makes for really interesting scenic drives! Our drive today led us to lots of snow and hundreds of Elk! The snow covered mountains were very beautiful (though it was nice knowing that I could turn around and go back to Denver and not worry with the snow there). The elk were incredible! There were so many of them and they were really rather unphased by the tons of people following them around to watch and take pictures. I got some good ones on my phone and on my Nikon. But the Nikon photos will have to wait- as I forgot my card reader. So here are some iphone snapshots of my day!