UD NSO!

Well, college is just around the corner. So me and my mother went back to Delaware for New Student Orientation. We went back on Saturday, went down to the outlet malls on Sunday, and went to New Student Orientation on Monday.

At New Student Orientation (NSO) we were welcomed by smiling and dancing NSO leaders. Then, we got the down low on everything at University of Delaware from what it means to be a blue hen to health and safety. We had advisement meetings where we chose classes and met new people that we would be attending school with.
It was very informational and I met a lot of new people.

beautiful sunset on the flight over

my NSO group

a beautiful sunset in Delaware

My mom and I left on the first flight out the next morning and were back home and out of the humidity of the east coast.

The day I got home, my friend and I spent the rest of the day at Santa Monica Pier riding the rides, seeing the sights, and listening to the music on the pier.

Santa Monica

Santa Monica Pier from the Ferris Wheel

She's gotta get her selfie

Chillin' on the Ferris Wheel

at night

Ferris Wheel at night..

Happy Birthday to ME!!

Well, for the first time in a long time I was at home on my birthday and was actually able to celebrate my birthday, on my actual birhtday. Overall, it was a pretty good day.

Last year on my birthday I had to say goodbye to all my friends and family in Norway to leave for the US. So as you could imagine, that was one of the worst birthdays.

On my birthday I was able to decide what I wanted to do. So, I went to high tea at the Huntington Rose Garden with my sister. It was very nice and I loved it! I love tea, so much, more than words can describe. And nothing compares to little tea sandwiches and fruit tarts with a nice English Breakfast Tea. My sister and I stayed at tea for about 2 hours, then we walked through the gardens. We decided we should get our entry fees worth - but we got the student fee so it all worked out well! My favorite gardens were the Japanese banzai gardens with the cute little bridges and trees. And the Australian gardens were very misleading. There were no gardens. I guess it was probably like the Australian outback, there was just dirt and rocks and the occasional tree. We left there shortly after becasue it was about 90 degrees and we weren't about to walk around in black dresses through the cactus gardens in 90 degree heat.

TEA TEA TEA

My sister in the tea room

Walking through the gardens

a self-explanatory flower

In the cactus garden

me and my sis

After that I decided that because I was now a legal adult at the age of 18, I would be the classic rebel and get my ear pierced without parental consent. So I got my cartilage pierced. YEAH for teenage rebellion!

My instagram post of my monumental ear piercing.

Then after a little down time at home and a quick run to the 99 cents store to go buy birthday balloons. My family and one of my friends went to dinner at PF Changs. nomnomnom.  And then tried to go to a movie, but by the time me and my friend got there they were sold out. So we just went to the kettle for some muffins and coffee. 

Then, the day after my birthday we went over and had a bar-b-que at our family friends' house so they could help us eat the four layer cake I made. It was four layers, two layer plain vanilla, two layers vanilla with chocolate chip with chocolate butter cream frosting in between each layer and vanilla butter cream frosting around the cake and then I put vanilla butter cream roses and writing on the cake. Yes, I made my own birthday cake. Why? Because that is just how my family works.

my not-so-perfect homemade cake

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