One Hundred Fifty Two | Creating yumminess

Having a Mexican Fiesta tomorrow at work, so I am slaving over making yumminess (aka guacamole)! I am making a mess and loving it...and it tastes sooooo good!!!

One Hundred Fifty One | Angry Banana!

I come over to Amber's desk to chat, sit down, and this is what I see sitting next to me! Bahaha, love it!

One Hundred Fifty | Empty

Bummer!

One Hundred Forty Nine | Muvico

Movie night with Ms. Tanya! Theater was pretty empty!

One Hundred Forty Eight | Meeting Eva

Went to a pool party today in the afternoon and met Becky's new little girl, Eva.

She is so cute!

One Hundred Forty Seven | Air time

Nothing like a good game of corn hole!

One Hundred Forty Six | Italian "Queso"

I have never had queso like this, but it was delicious! I love Cheap in Soho!

One Hundred Forty Five | Night Views

The one thing that I really like about my blog is that I never know what is going to happen during the day that I will be able to capture with my camera. I actually had another picture all lined up for today. Then, I was cleaning my apartment and saw some lightning and went outside to see these clouds rolling in. I immediately grabbed my camera and tripod to try and capture something....and I love this. :)

P.S. This is from my screened in patio, so it does look a little fuzzy.

One Hundred Forty Four | Chinese Red

This is my silk robe that I got in China. Red is a very prominent color in China. They see it as a color that brings a lot of luck. So, now I wear it every morning to put a little luck in my day :)

One Hundred Forty Three | Fedora

Ok...here's some firsts. First self portrait on my blog. First fedora hat I have ever owned. Yay!

I am not normally a hat person. Mostly because I have a huge man head (thanks dad!). But, I love my new fedora!

One Hundred Forty Two | Feels Like Home

Leinie's!

I have never seen both of the summer series down here in Florida! It's nice to be able to have a taste of some Summer Shandy again :)

One Hundred Forty One | Hold 'em

    Poker on a sunday evening...nice way to end a lazy day.

One Hundred Forty | Beach Shoot

I had a mini photo shoot with Katie and her hubby today. This was one of my favorites from the day with them. :)

One Hundred Thirty Nine | Em Cee

Ok, so I wasn't really an Em Cee tonight, but I did change the pandora station :)

Was at my friend's bar, Collage, tonight for another friend's birthday. Fun stuff :)

One Hundred Thirty Eight | Scooby Snack

It's not a shot, it's sushi! We had a going away get together for Daniel from work....sad :( to see him go!

Love me some sushi!

One Hundred Thirty Seven | Choco Raspberry

This is what I like about living close to work...I can have time to make my lunch. Today, I decided on chocolate chip pancakes with raspberry syrup...yum yum! :)

One Hundred Thirty Six | Lazy Day

Love having days off! I didn't have much to do today, so I laid by the pool...Tough day ;)

One Hundred Thirty Five | Mac & Meatloaf

It's Tom's birthday and we had lunch at Datz Cafe. The only other time I have eaten there was on my birthday, so I guess its turning into the Birthday cafe! They have amazing food! Including meatloaf stuffed with mac&cheese....shut the front door!

One Hundred Thirty Four | Back Home

Ugh...the thing I hate about coming back home after a trip...is laundry!! blah!

One Hundred Thirty Three | Comfort Food

Flew into DTW and they have a PB&J stand...YESSS PLEASE!

Creamy PB, Chocolate, and Marshmallow! With a side of milk! Best first meal back in the states!!

One Hundred Thirty Two | Bund

Went for a final sight seeing adventure before our trip in Shanghai was over. Came down to the Bund, and it was a lot clearer night than the previous night we came down. Just love this picture!

One Hundred Twenty Nine | No room for error

Rachel and I got to spend our morning working on our fabulous front vignette. With a wall covering back drop, we added orange decals on top for a dramatic feature. Let me tell you, without a laser level, this probably wouldn't have happened so easily!

One Hundred Thirty One | Flagship

Shanghai Flagship store, night before opening. Lots of hard work and determination have made this into a gorgeous store!

One Hundred Thirty | Underground

Traveling to the Bund via subway. Love finding my way in a strange city, I enjoy the adventure!

One Hundred Twenty Eight | Dolce Vita

It was Penny's birthday...so, we went out for a nice dinner. Ended up eating at Dolce Vita...super yummy Italian food! Who would have thought that China would have good Italian!

One Hundred Twenty Seven | Smores

Smores :) Too bad they had no strawberries, or very hot chocolate :P

One Hundred Twenty Six | Cinco de Mayo

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

We were going to go to a Mexican restaurant, but pretty much every X-Pat (ex patriots who now reside in Shanghai) was at the restaurant, so we went down the street to a micro brewery called Dr. Beer. Loved it!

This was an Australian strip loin that was probably one of the best steaks, I have ever had! Yum Yum

One Hundred Twenty Five | Penta 2

Penta at night

One Hundred Twenty Four | A Complication

Photo shoot right in the middle of a store set-up! UGH! Let's try to make things more complicated, shall we?! Thank God, that they canceled it after one day.

One Hundred Twenty Three | Organization

Talk about being organized! Lol...this is what it takes to get the job done!

One Hundred Twenty Two | Appetizing

Octopus is looking pretty appetizing, don't you think?

One Hundred Twenty One | Penta

Found an American-ish restaurant today. Became the go-to place to eat at since it was right next to the store. Had a fun modern pub type feel.

One Hundred Twenty | Stairway to kindness

I do not know this man's story. Even if he wanted to tell me, I would not have been able to understand. What I do know is, that he has been through a harder life than most of would ever know. He sits here at the entrance to the Jing'an Temple Subway station, homeless, and hungry. Thousands, if not millions pass by him each day. Katie and I would have passed by him as if he was any other homeless person in China, but we noticed something that just touched our heart. This man had once been burned, head to toe. He had burn marks on every inch of skin you could see. He had no fingers, just a few nubs on what hands he had. We went and bought him crackers and water. He said many things, but all we could understand was "Xie Xie", which is Chinese for Thank You, and he repeated it many times. I hope he receives random acts of kindness more than what we think he would receive.

One Hundred Nineteen | Wanvog

This is where I sat at Wanvog working my butt off.....Just kidding, I did not sit here...there is a lot of amazing work that does happen here though! Hats off to all those who work at Wanvog!

One Hundred Eighteen | Must have law label

Stick on a law label...

Sick on a upc...

Stick on a price label...

Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. 15,000 times.

One Hundred Seventeen | Mac and WIne

Nothing like celebrating a productive day, like some wine and mac&cheese!

One Hundred Sixteen | Chopsticks included

Traditional Chinese...this wasn't too bad, had a little kick to it! The chicken head still attached to the body was a little creepy! Unfortunately, didn't have a very clear picture of that.

One Hundred Fifteen | Hotel Living

I can never get used to staying in hotels...no matter what, you can never really make it home like. Never can get organized!

One Hundred Fourteen | Flamin'

Fire!

Fried Ice Cream....mmmm, yum yum!

My favorite part of this picture is that you can still see drops coming out of the bottle to the right :)

One Hundred Thirteen | Oversized

We arrived in Shanghai-Pudong Airport. Waited until all the bags went by, and our decals we shipped were not to be found. So, as we went searching, we were routed to the over-sized baggage claim. And all by its lonesome, we found our decals!

One Hundred Twelve | Abroad

The journey begins again!

Somewhere over Canada/Alaska/Russia...not very certain on exactly what time during the flight I took this.