Summer Phishing

What would a summer be without touring around to see some live music? Last summer we drove 2200 miles and took a week off from work to see Phish. This summer we managed to see 6 shows while only taking 1 day off and only driving a few hundred miles.

As I mentioned in the last post, it started with a show in Portsmouth, VA about an hour from my parents' house.

Then a trip to Camden, NJ for 2 shows. Brad drove up from DC (where he was at work) and I flew from NC to Philly and then took the train across the river to meet up with him in NJ. Of course, since no trip of mine is complete without delays (seriously, I have the magic touch - it seems that my flights are ALWAYS delayed!), I sat on the runway at RDU for hours due to weather in Philly. Finally made it to Camden but missed the beginning of the show (including my favorite song = Erin NOT happy with the weather gods!).

But my mood turned around once I got there and we met up with our buddies, Lisa and Jay, for the show Thursday night, a day of tailgating and then another show on Friday night.

We woke up Saturday morning and drove to Maryland for another set of shows - Saturday and Sunday night at Meriweather Post Pavilion. Here we are with Dan as the lights went down at the start of one of the shows - excited for the show to start and clearly hot and sunburned from the day hanging out in the lot.

We made it to the hotel on Sunday night at about 1 AM in a great mood after having so much fun. I was not in such a great mood though when my alarm went off 3 hours later. I had to get up to shower and catch a shuttle to the airport to fly to Boston for work! 8 hours after getting home from the Phish show in Maryland, I was sitting at Harvard Business School about to start a 3 day conference there. Phew!

It was a great trip though and always we had a ton of fun with friends and music!

Golfing in Williamsburg

Summer fun began, somewhat randomly, on a Monday in Williamsburg!

Brad and I came up with the crazy plan to make a mid-week trip to see my parents. I needed to head to NYC for a conference later in the week and Brad needed to head to DC for work. Plus, we found out that there was a concert we wanted to see near my parents house on Tuesday night so we thought, why not drive to Williamsburg on Monday, hang with my parents for a bit, go see a concert Tuesday night and then drop me off at the airport on Wednesday AM to fly to NYC and Brad would continue the drive to DC?

Oh, and while we were at my parents, we figured we could squeeze in some golfing! This was officially my first time EVER setting foot on a golf course. I've been to the driving range but that was about it. So, needless to say it was ummm "interesting"? "kind of hysterical"? or maybe "sad" is more accurate? Anyway, I'm not sure what the right adjective is but let's just say I'm no golfing pro! It was fun though - and there were moments of hope that I could actually hit the ball (tho, more often there was proof that I suck but who's counting!)

On a side note, let me say that this trip was pretty typical of my bright ideas (note all the sarcasm there!). I'm pretty well known for taking on way too much and overestimating how much I can get accomplished in a day. So, here's what the week looked like ...

• Monday = work in NC, 3 hr drive to Casa Layburn, dinner with M&D in W'burg
• Tuesday = 7 AM tee time, work from Casa Layburn, drive an hr+ to concert and stay out late enjoying some great music
• Wednesday = earrrllllly morning flight to NYC, Brad drives to work in DC and Erin starts working in NYC, working late in to the night to prep for our 450+ conference that starts the next day
• Thursday = all day conference begins AND we have the bright idea to hold our Advisory Board meeting at the same time. So, day spent running up and down stairs from conference to Board meeting, trying to keep everyone productive and happy.
• Friday = conference all day followed by a quick drink with my team to celebrate a successful conference and then running off to meet up with JB for the night. Dinner, drinks and sleepover at JB's place - so good to catch up with my best friend from as long as I can remember!
• Saturday AM = make way across NYC to have brunch with a good buddy from the Booz Allen days. Good time reminiscing about the work days and thanking our lucky stars that we have both moved on to better things!
• Saturday PM = take the train to LI and meet up with my sister! Takeout food (and cake, yum!), watching movies and sleepover at her place. Awesome chill out time with my sis.
• Sunday = flight home after a productive week, making it back to NC in time to do some laundry, catch up with Brad and get ready for back to work the next morning!
  

So, it was an awesome week but totally exhausting!

Slacking

So, it's been quite a while since we have posted on the blog - I know, I know, we're total slackers!

But no worries faithful readers (that's right, all 2 of you!), WE ... ARE ... BACK! It's been a great summer, full of traveling, hanging with friends and family and lots of other fun. But now we are back to blogging so that we can capture all the fun times. So, be on the lookout for some new posts - and, yes, I admit in advance that I will be backdating the posts so don't hold that against me ;)

Our annual summer trip to Austin

Last summer, I had just started my new job and had no vacation time accumulated yet so I wasn't able to make it down to Texas for our annual trip to the lake. Needless to say I was totally bummed because it is always SO much fun! So, we were so excited when this year's trip rolled around.

There's nothing like being at the lake house with the Worshams, eating up a storm with Le Anne's cooking and spending a ton of time on the boat, jetskiing, wakeboarding, and, most importantly, just relaxing and spending quality time with the fam!

Had to include a pic of Brad jumping off the dock in "flying squirrel" formation. Hysterical.

It was also our first get-together with Todd and Alex since they got engaged. The family is getting bigger - love it!



And a pic of the whole crew on the porch!

As always, the trip went by waaaay too quickly but we had a blast and can't wait for our next trip to the lake!