I just got home last night from a wonderful weekend in New York City. Wow what a city! I love going there and experiencing all it has to offer. My wonderful sisters-in law plan this trip every year. We got to see "Wicked" and it was an awesome show. Yes, they even have the flying monkeys. We also got to see "Young Frankenstein" by Mel Brooks. We were in about the eigth row and it too was awesome. I am a big Mel Brooks fan and Megan Muhlally (sp?) fan. The show was hilarious and fast paced, we really enjoyed it.
I also got to go to Tinsel Trading Co.
http://tinseltrading.com/index.php ,which I heard about from other blogs and Martha Stewart. This is a great store with lots of treasures just waiting to be discovered. I bought some spools of ribbon, German Dresden, and some mini flowers. This area has several trim and bead stores so I was in heaven.
It was an exhausting four days and I was glad to be coming home to a more relaxing environment. I boarded my plane for Atlanta at 1pm and got off of the plane at 9:30pm we were on the plane for almost eight and a half hours. I have heard about those situations on the news and have thought I would freak out if that ever happened to me. There were bad storms in Atlanta and it messed up hundreds of flights. The Delta crew was wonderful handing out drinks and snacks, but after a couple hours those snacks just don't cut it. Everyone remained calm and cool and I didn't freak out after all. They keep telling you we will know something in an hour etc. if they told you up front your going to sit on the plane for 5 hours on the runway, that would probably make everyone flip out. I am not going anywhere for a very long time!
Here is one of my newest pendants I have added to my Etsy store. I am getting in the mood for the Forth of July and all of the picnics and fun celebrations. I like this horizontal orientation of this pendant it looks really cute as a choker. I wore mine to go shopping and got several inquiries. The funny thing about that one was that the background paper, from a Pat Cromwell novel, had some obscene words visible. I didn't even notice it until I finished it. My teenage son saw it right away. I guess his eyes are better trained for those things.
In the northeast corner of Georgia is a beautiful state park called Tullulah Gorge. It was used in the 1996 Olympics for white water rafting events. Also the movie Deliverance was filmed in the gorge as well. It is really a beautiful place to hike if you are ever in the area. We decided we would go early and try to get a couple passes to climb to the bottom of the gorge. We were five minutes late and missed the last of the 100 hundred passes that are given out daily. Everyone was so disappointed but we found later that it was really a very good thing for us. The sign at the top of the trail should have made us realize what we were in for, but we thought that was for other people. We climbed down and then back up over 1,000 stairs. Well I am not in as good of shape as I thought I was. I thought my thighs were going to seize up and revolt to not go another step. Well we all made it and it was a good wake up call to get back to my exercise program.
