Apostle Islands Trip!

Here is a post about our weekend getaway to Apostle Islands, Wi on my other blog!

http://hoppers-stop.blogspot.com/2009/06/apostle-islands-day1.html

- Moi

Hopper's Stop!

I have finally started another blog - a travelogue. Something that I always wanted to do - but never got to it. So here it is Hopper's Stop!

http://hoppers-stop.blogspot.com

-Moi

Summer of '08!!

I have had a bad case of blogstipation – writer’s block – lack of inspiration, ideas and time are some of the reasons or rather the excuses for it.

Change is inevitable – I tell to myself. I am not a person averse to change, rather I am a person who does embrace change and looks forward to it. But there are a few apprehensions and doubts that I am sure everybody has to deal with. Especially the kind of career path I have chosen, where I change my workplace faster than the season changes in Chicago, I have to always be ready to jump into new environments and start liking it. Still there is always an uncertainty when I start a new project, will I like the new place as much as the old one? Will I be able to meet more interesting people as I always did before? More often than not I do.

Well, I am in an introspective state of mind, and am trying to condition myself for the change that will happen soon. Anyways, a lot has been happening this summer. This summer was by far my busiest summer in Chicago – what with mom and dad visiting the US of A, and my mil visiting too. So I am glad to say that this summer was spent with my favorite people on this planet – and yes, ‘am loving it!

So many new places visited, some old places re-visited and I thoroughly enjoyed all of it. Experienced a few new things and did a few things that I always loved doing. The Mister took me skydiving for my birthday as a surprise gift. I wanted to do this since a long time – and it’s an experience that cannot be shared or told – you have to do it to feel it. Jumping off a plane from 13,000ft is a mind numbing, exhilarating, adrenaline pumping experience of a lifetime. It leaves you so happy that I told about it to every person that I spoke to for a whole week after I did it. Thinking about it 2 months after I did it – still gets my heart to beat faster.

We took a road trip around the Lake Michigan and drove around 4 states – that was by far the best road trip I have ever taken. It was an amazing weekend. Also went to Seattle to see my sis and bil and stayed with my whole family (except the Mister) and it was one of my memorable trips – Seattle is a great place to visit – really liked it – more about Seattle in a later post.

Re-visited Chicago with family - took them around the place and acted tourist here and fell in love with Chicago all over again. I just can’t get enough of the fireworks this summer – it has been great.

This long weekend we are taking mil to Niagara Falls and DC. So more new places and new experiences. I am really looking forward to the trip – and I just don’t want the summer to end. I am hoping that I will return from the trip with renewed zing and more positive energy. As you can say from the rambling in this post, my mind is in a state of mish-mash – with so much happening all around me. Well, I am looking forward to more and new. Here’s to the summer of ’08!!

Mood of the Day: Thoughtful

Song of the Day: Tujhse naraaz nahi zindagi - Masoom

Calvin and Hobbes for the day:

Door County - Wisconsin

- Woke up at 4:00 am in the morning on Saturday and started driving towards Wisconsin at 5:30 am

- Reached Door county at 10:30 and then went to the Peninsula State Park to see the fall colors

- The scene was like out of a Yash Chopra movie what with blue waters on one side and yellow and orange leaves all over the place

- Clicked pictures by the dozen, as if it were a photo shoot

- Drove to a winery to taste 50 different varieties of wine

- Got a little drunk, ‘cos even if you taste just a sip, 30-40 sips make a drunk girl (hic!)

- Drove to the hotel and rested, had dinner, played cards, fooled in the swimming pool and Jacuzzi and called it a night

- Woke up early next day and hit the road again to Potawatomi (no, I did not make up that name) state park – another photo session ensued

- Drove along the shoreline covering the whole door county and got back and stopped for lunch

- Then saw hoardings for airplane scenic tours for door county, took a 15 minute tour in the airplane – needless to say, the views were breathtaking and the fall colors were great and the place looked like heaven – it was a first time experience for all of us – and thus ended the trip on a flying note - literally (in the Misters words) and drove back home!

-Moi

Mood of the day: Tired

Song of the day: Vaishnav janato