Summer trips (pun semi-intentional)
Doing some catching up on picture posts. This is the trip I took with Heather (greenigma21) during the weekend of her birthday celebration.

We took the train into the city


Vagabond, a boutique filled with eclectic finds, from Charlotte Ronson bustier rompers to Blank destroyed denim. Also, they have a section in the back devoted entirely to yarn ♥


Then into Topstitch, where leopard print bodysuits are featured alongside porcelain owl figurines, and the girl running the cash register (arms tattooed with chrysanthemums) handmakes leather feather earrings






Twin dress-trying-on at Sugarcube
Bought Publick top


Also worth posting about: went to Reward. They sell great jewelry there as well, as their blog will illustrate.
Bought bomber jacket

Heather's first sake beverage ever


At Haru: Smoked salmon and tuna sushi! My favorites!


I had plum wine for the first time at Buddakan (yes, we stopped at two sushi places, it had to be done); and it was delicious


Rainbow on the way home. If you look closely, there are actually two rainbows.


Returning to Heather's (parents') house - loved the grandiloquent columns


Her family makes their own wine! I think I need to start doing this.


Ray is the devious pool cleaner - he kept squirting us with water whenever he perceived we had let down our guard


The pool was freezing...


We moved to the hot tub


Birthday dinner with excellent pasta (tried vodka sauce for the first time and liked it immensely)


I was, thankfully, not allergic to Psycho-Kitty (whose yowls were impressive for such an old cat, but apparently all the persistent noise was due to senility)


Present-opening (Heather got a lot of Lush products, heh)


There is nothing better than bashing a gigantic cupcake piñata with a big stick.








I enjoyed the sunflowers :)


I, sadly, did not enjoy the cake (why do people like chocolate so much? do not understand; vanilla is far superior)


They had an excellent fire gadget in the back, around which we clustered on lawn chairs


The house across the street...i.e. where I must live someday(!).


Not pictured is our trip to Cherry Hill Mall, and to an upscale outdoor shopping mall with a gigantoid Anthropologie. And the drive around Heather's town, which is endlessly quaint and lovely. South Jersey is niiiiiiice.