ONE HOT MAMA!

I know...I'm HOT! Don't you just love my new hair color. You can say it...it's pretty easy. Repeat after me..."C.C., you are one HOT mama!" Good. Now that wasn't so bad...was it?

MODEL ALERT!

This is my Lovey neice Kristin (Kris). She is pretty much the most adorable girl you have ever seen in this world. She stops by to visit me all the time in Provo, even though she lives in South Jordan. We love to have slumber parties together and go for walks around the BYU campus. She loves pink and being silly. I am sooooo lucky to have her as a neice. She could easily be a model or a rocket scientist (she is sooooo smart). But watch out she can be somewhat vindictive. The other day she said to me, "What? You're almost 25 and don't have a man!" Children have such a sweet way of putting things. The little darlings.

House Party

I just recently moved houses in Provo and my roomies and I threw a huge house warming party so that all of our old and new friends would feel welcome to come and visit.
As you can see, it was quite the party. We had a BBQ, video games, and a great time visiting with each other. If you didn't come, shame on you ...if you did, gong xi, gong xi. My best friend Tracie even came down from Idaho for the event.

New York Sidetrip

On our way to Germany my mom and I had a

13 hour layover in Newark. Instead of

spending our day locked up in the airport

we decided to take the train in to Penn

Station. This was about my 3rd or 4th time

going to New York City but I had never been

able to go to the Statue of Liberty, so that is

the first thing we did. It was a beautiful

sunny day and we had a great time. Then we

walked around ground zero, stopped by a cathedral

and went to China town, little Italy, and Canal

Street. The best part about it all was that

I lost my wallet and didn't realize it until we

were in the cab going back to the station. We

turned around and retraced our steps through China

town and canal street and were about to give

up when I got a voice mail from my dad, my

roomate Cassie, a New York City police officer,

and Discover Card all saying that my wallet

was waiting for me at the 5th precinct

downtown. After our cabbie was lost we

were finally able to make it to the police

station, pick up the wallet, and book it to

airport. We made it just in time to hop on

the plane. It was a great little adventure.

Germany and the Czech Republic

So, here are the long awaited pictures of my trip to Germany and the Czech Republic this summer. The pictue above and on the left was taken at Rothenburg. It is an adorable midievil town that is very well preserved and is just AMAZING to walk around in. The picture on the right was taken while my mom was napping in the passanger seat of the car. I had just driven completely under this caslte and wanted a to get a shot. Since mi madre was slumbering I had to do something fast. I pulled out the camera, rolled down the window and tried to get the castle to fit in the rear view mirror. Not bad considering I was going about 40 mph. I want to go back to Germany and bike the romantic road from Rothenberg to Fussen. It is so beautiful! Ancient villages, castles, and cathedrals are plastered all throughout the countryside. There are such wonderful deep green fields and hills, and the forrests are so thick that the only way you can penetrate their walls is to enter into the darkness; you can't see what's in them form the road.

Another one of my favorite spots was in Bavari on the Austrian border right by the Alps. I got to see Ludwig's fairytale castle, Neuschwanstein. It's location was picturesque, perched up on a hill top overlooking a lake and farming community on one side and two lakes and the Alps on the other (as depicted in the picture on the right). Just over the Alps to the East is another mountain-town where my parents and I stayed the night and got to see a free community symphony with the locals dressed up in traditional German clothing (with leiderhosen and all). There were all sorts of hiking trails that lead up the moutains that would take you days to follow all the way. Another dream of mine to is go back and follow those trails and just enjoy the scenery. To me the mountains are just as sacred as the temple.

This last picture was taken in Prague. At the tip of Wenseslas Square is the national museum with this fountain out front. The Czech Republic was the one place I wanted to see the most, and have dreamed about going to all my life, but it was the most dissapointing part of the trip. It was really dirty and noisy. I was only there one day though, so maybe I need to go back and give it a couple of days.