Three Weeks in September

Hi there. With this post I will actually be caught up with outfit posts for the first time in weeks. After getting back from Vegas I have socialized every weekend but the last one, and for somebody who is as much of a homebody as me it's been fun but sort of exhausting. And in two weeks I am going to take my nieces to visit my Aunt and Uncle in New Mexico over Fall break. I think the next vacation I take will be an at home affair.

I noticed when I was looking up the "last seen" for what I wore the last three weeks that I tend to wear the same outfits withing a few days of each other. I'm not sure how this happens. Maybe some outfits subconsciously lead me to other outfits? I'm not sure why it happens, only that it happens with regularity. One of life's little mysteries that I never would have wondered about if I hadn't started this blog. And on that note, onto the clothes.

September 6

Top: 89th & Madison - Last seen here (4th outfit)  Skirt: Banana Republic - Last seen here (1st outfit)

The Stuff

Earrings and Bracelets: Chicos  Necklace: Etsy
September 7

Dress: Ann Taylor - Last seen here (1st outfit)

The Stuff

Earrings: GH  Bracelet: Mom Necklace: Etsy

September 8 - Yeah, no idea whats up with the faces.
    

Top: Alfani - Last seen here (1st outfit)  Skirt: Merona - Last seen here (3rd outfit) Cardigan: J Crew - Hand me down from T

The Stuff

Earrings: Chicos  Necklace: Etsy  Bracelet: Mom

September 9 - I was at a farewell party for someone else's boobies.

Top: Ann Taylor Loft - Last seen here (2nd outfit)  Jeans: Chicos - Last seen here (5th outfit)

The Stuff

Earrings: GH  Bracelet: Chicos  Necklace: Etsy

September 12

Top: Banana Republic - Retail 2015 (?)  Skirt: Talbots - Last seen here (6th outfit)

The Stuff

Earrings: Gift from Mom  Bracelet: Pier 1 1990's (?)  Necklace: Gift

September 13

Dress: Chicos - Last seen here (7th outfit)

The Stuff

Earrings and Bracelet: Chicos  Necklace: Etsy

September 14 - Outfit and laugh repeat from July.
    

Top: Ralph Lauren - Last seen here (2nd outfit)  Skirt: George - Last seen here (2nd outfit)

The Stuff

Earrings and Bracelet: Mom Necklace Gift

September 15 - No idea what's up with these faces but different light = different color top and different posture = different fit
     

Top: Lilla P - Last seen here (1st outfit)  Skirt: Apt 9 - Last seen here (4th outfit)

The Stuff

Necklace: Online  Earrings: GH  Bracelet: Chicos

September 16 - Not sure about the pout but maybe because it's Saturday and I'm at work?
     

Top: Ann Taylor - Last seen here (3rd outfit)  Jeans: Levis - Last seen here (5th outfit)

The Stuff

Earrings and Bracelet: Mom  Necklace: Etsy

September 19

Dress: Talbots - Last seen here (4th outfit)  Cardigan: Liz Claiborne - Bought here in June

The Stuff

Necklace: Rosetta  Earrings: Mom  Bracelet: Jennifer

September 20 - With random beam of light
   

Top: Banana Republic - Hand me down from T and haven't been tracking  Cardigan: French Connection - Last seen here (4th outfit)  Skirt: Provence d amour - Last seen here (1st outfit)

The Stuff

Necklace: Online  Earrings and Bracelet: Mom

September 21

Top: Gap - Last seen here (12th outfit)  Skirt: White House Black Market - Last seen here (1st outfit)

The Stuff

Earrings: Mom  Bracelet: Rosetta  Necklace: Gift

September 22

Top: Jones New York - Last seen here (6th outfit) Cardigan: Dana Buchman - Last seen here (4th outfit)  Skirt: Jones New York - Last seen here (6th outfit)

The Stuff

Necklace: Online Earrings and Bracelet: Mom

September 23

Top: Banana Republic - Hand me down from T  Jeans: Levis - last seen here (6th outfit)

The Stuff

Earrings: GH  Bracelet: Chicos  Necklace: Etsy

And there's three weeks worth of outfits.
As always thank you to blog photographer BB!!!

See you soon.

Eating My Way Through Las Vegas and Other Fun Stuff

Hi there. I thought about coming up with a title that would be different from the NOLA post, but in truth most of our trip was based around food so why change?  My mom and I drove up to Las Vegas on Monday the 21st of August. The point of the trip was to celebrate my Mom's 60th birthday which was August 22nd. The drive up was pretty uneventful. We did make a quick pit stop in Picacho to check out the eclipse, which involved pulling off the freeway, getting out of the car, passing one pair of eclipse glasses back and forth for a couple of minutes and then getting back in the car and back on the road. At the same time we were driving up, the GH was driving back from Vegas after spending the weekend at Psycho, a three day metal festival. Once past Phoenix it's actually a fairly pretty drive. For an added bonus we were driving towards the rain which gave great sky.

                                          Somewhere between Wickenberg and Vegas

                                                       Road trip outfit. I do own shorts!

Once we got to the hotel it was time for a drink. I had spent 20 minutes wandering around Total Wine in Tucson looking for Lillet, or someone to point me to the Lillet and the only one they had was the red one. Mom was slightly disappointed. It was still pretty, and yummy though.

                                                            Gotta have the orange slice.

Dinner that night was at Rao's and we has an order of meatballs and the anitpasti platter to split. If that doesn't sound like a lot of food the meatballs were as big as my fist.

Very large meatball - I should have put an olive next to it for scale.

                                                     The most lovely antipasti platter

On Tuesday, Mom's birthday we headed down to the Mandarin Oriental to have tea. We had done high tea at the Bellagio before but had not tried the Mandarin's yet. It was wonderful! The Tea Room is on the 23rd floor with floor to ceiling windows and a great view of the strip. The room itself was incredibly peaceful, which can be hard to find in Vegas.

                                          My outfit for High Tea. Dress hand me down from T

     
      The view from our table                             The view of the table

The tea itself was lovely, I had a pot of Jasmine Earl Grey. The food that came with the tea service was also lovely.

                                                                    Food on full display.

                    The savory tea sandwiches. The cone had a divine curried chicken salad.

            The scones with clotted cream, peach marmalade and strawberry preserves.

                       The sweets. The yellow was filled with passionfruit and was amazing.

               The vending machine outside of the tea room. I did not actually check the prices.

After tea Mom and I took the tram to the Bellagio, had a bellini and then I went back to the hotel while mom gambled. We decided that we would try Gordon Ramsey's Pub in Caesars for dinner. It was good but way overpriced. The best thing about it was the variety of pub ales available.

     
         Wexford Irish Cream Ale                                Boddingtons Pub Ale - On tap!!

We both had the fish and chips, which was good but not worth $30.
     
              Fish and chips                                Lemon berry tart for dessert

On Wednesday we went to Joe's Seafood for lunch. Since we had been there before we knew exactly what we would order. This classic two course lunch comes with crab legs, roasted sweet corn, Potatoes Lyonnaise and Havana Dream Pie for dessert. It's more food than the two of us can finish.

                                The potatoes are covered in caramelized onions, sooo good.

I kept throwing the word birthday around to see what would happen and at Joe's it got mom a decadent brownie with ice cream and fresh whipped cream with a cherry on top of course.

  
                  Havana Dream Pie                                                  Birthday Brownie

This was also our night to see a show. When planning the trip Mom had thought we would see Rod Stewart but changed her mind at some point and we got tickets to see Britney Spears instead. Not that one needs an excuse to dress up in Vegas, but I used Britney as my excuse.

                                                    Dress: Recent hand me down from T

I took around 15 pictures of my ticket while waiting for the show to start.

                                                          Our seats were pretty killer.

                I also played around with selfie taking and Google Photos made me a collage.

Thursday was the day we went home but we had to pop into Payards for lunch so that Mom could have her Croque Madame. I missed getting a picture of it but I did get my Eggs Benedict.

                                                    Eggs Benedict on a croissant, so decadent.

After lunch it was into the car for the drive back home. The only interesting thing about that drive was what I saw in the Starbucks parking lot in Kingman.

A lonely bong in the middle of a Starbucks parking lot. How did it get there? Who knows, why did they leave it there is what I want to know.

And that was what we ate in Las Vegas. We're going back in February for a double celebration, T's 40th and J's 21st and I am very much looking forward to it!

See you soon.