Posts Tagged ‘ Travel

Washington DC: Lincoln Memorial


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Las Vegas: L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon

I finally finished uploading my photos from Las Vegas last month. I was going to write about our NYEE dinner at “chef of the century” Joël Robuchon’s restaurant at MGM Grand, but Ly beat me to it! He also did such an excellent job describing each dish I’m just going to link him: Homemade Food Reviews: L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon.

Needless to say, it was a pretty amazing experience. A photo says a thousand words, but in this case, it hardly does the meal justice:

L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon

L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon

L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon

L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon

L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon

L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon

L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon

L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon

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Travel Cities 2009

As in years past (2007-2008), below are my travels by city for the year!

WINTER
January 14 – 16 San Francisco, CA
January 27 – 28 Kansas City, MO
February 5 – 8 San Francisco, CA
February 9 Cincinnati, OH
February 10 – 11 Atlanta, GA

SPRING
April 12 – 16 Baja Mexico Cruise (Catalina Island & Ensenada, Mexico)
April 21 – 23 Las Vegas, NV
May 5 – 6 San Francisco, CA
May 7 – 8 Chicago, IL

SUMMER
June 8 – 12 Provo, UT
June 15 Memphis, TN
June 16 – 18 Philadelphia, PA
August 1 – 2 Portland, OR
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S o u t h  P a c i f i c  H o n e y m o o n !
August 10 – 16 Vatulele, Fiji
August 17 Nadi, Fiji
August 18 – 25 Sydney, Australia
August 26 – 29 Lahaina, HI
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FALL
October 18 – 22 Chicago, IL
October 23 – 25 Eden Prairie, MN
October 26 – 29 Boston, MA
December 7 – 10 Northridge, CA
December 22 – 26 Eden Prairie, MN
December 28 – 31 Las Vegas, NV

Summary:

- View my Dopplr travel profile with Flickr photos.
- I traveled a total of 81 days and hit 20 cities this year!
- Though modest to some, for the first time Ryan and I both hit 50K miles/each.
- We spent 3 astonishing weeks in the South Pacific for our honeymoon <3.
- San Francisco and Chicago continued to be hot spots for my business travel.
- I actually traveled more for leisure than work, especially due to my fall sabbatical.
- Over the last 3 years I’ve been on 78 trips–and I’m so not tired yet!
- That all said, I’m now hankering to leave the continent again (exceedingly so).

So here’s to what 2010 holds. Merry travels, all!

Eden Prairie: Original Pancake House


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Santa Monica: Risotto at Stefan’s at LA Farm


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Maui Honeymoon Photos


Photo by Ryan Prins

Ryan posted the last of our honeymoon photos! These shots are from the last leg of our South Pacific adventure. After Fiji and Australia, we stopped by Maui to visit where Ryan first proposed. I ♥ Hawaii. Can’t wait to find out where we’ll end up next.