Filling in the Gaps

 

 Since this is both a fashion and lifestyle blog and travel is a huge passion of mine, I felt it necessary to play a little catch up in what has happened in my life since I fell off the face of the internet:

-April-

I competed in my first Boston Marathon...one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I'm signed up for 2015 as well and am sure it will be as equally amazing

-May-

Hopped across the pond with my friend Chelsie to London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Ireland. Traveling there again further instilled my need to live there for at least a short period of my life. It will happen.

-June-

Went to my first music festival in Delaware with my other travel buddy Lindsey where we danced until 2am at the silent disco in the middle of a forest.

-July, August-

Enjoyed the beauty of northern Michigan. Up North is still my favorite place in the world.

-September-

Visited a friend in Colorado, hiked Pike's Peak, and had my first experience with altitude sickness.

-October-

Vamped it up with friends for a Halloween dance party, and took advantage of how great Michigan is in the fall.

Recalling of the events from the last seven months through this post reminds me how lucky I have been to have these experiences yet also reminds me of how much more of the world is out there yet to discover. Looking through these photographs ignites this desire in me to up and leave and go wherever my gut tells me to go. Now if I could only discover the formula of how to travel the world, still keep my job, and not be in debt from all the adventures I'd be all set :)

-Meagan- 

Bonjour, Paris!

When my friend and I were planning our trip to Europe, we tried to go to places we both had never been because honestly, who knows how many opportunities we will have in our lives to go on a trip like this again. But there was one place that both of us had been but we knew we had to make another visit: Paris!

Since we had already seen the City of Light before, we kept it short to optimize time in other unseen cities but of course Paris was still amazing. We went to Laduree and ate lots of delicious macarons, took the train out to Versailles and saw the unbelievable gardens (side note: doesn't the picture of me running in the hedges remind you of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire during the Triwizard tournament?! Haha I'm such a nerd, I saw these and had to get a picture!) and farm, and had a picnic on the lawn in front of the Eiffel Tower with cheese, baguettes, and champagne while we watched it sparkle on the hour until midnight.

Funny story about the picnic: we stayed until midnight when the sparkling stopped and were getting ready to take the metro rail back to our hostel, but I needed to use the bathroom before leaving. For some reason, all the public bathrooms were closed so we stopped and got dessert at a restaurant nearby and used their facilities. We went to the subway and just missed a train, but another one came two minutes later. We had to change trains at another stop and while we are waiting for the next train, a subway worker comes out and tells us the trains are done for the night and we will have to find our way back on our own! By this time it is 1 AM and we are miles and miles away from where we stayed.

As we are trying to figure out what we are going to do, we remembered we had paid to use the city bikes for 24 hours and there were still a few hours left we could use them. We saw some bikes nearby, grabbed two, and aimlessly biked back in the direction we thought we needed to go. Somehow, we actually were able to make it back! Our hostel was by the Moulin Rouge and by this time of night there were what my mom calls "Ladies of the Night" hanging out on the street, and we got a lot of cat calls biking past there hahaha but we made it and I was never so relieved to lie down and go to sleep!

Also, I chose not to tell my parents about us being lost in Paris at night until after I made it home safely :) it was a little scary, but also one of my favorite memories of the trip!

Happy Wednesday :)
-Meagan

P.S. This picture below was a mistake of having my shutter speed too slow, but also one of my favorite pictures while in Paris. Doesn't it look like we were at a crazy, spectacular light show?