Goooo Irish!

 Nick and I headed to ND for a little intra-marriage rivalry at the ND-Stanford football game.  We knew it wasn't going to be great weather -- but not knowing that your raincoat isn't actually a raincoat BEFORE standing in the rain for four hours is a valuable piece of information.  Bummer.

Gah, spending $5 on the poncho BEFORE getting totally absolutely soaked through would have totally saved my day.  I like my new ND gear though - even the stuff I had to buy mid-football game!

It was a fun trip (and ND won, woo!), but wetcoldwetwetwet will be my lasting memory of this trip.  

See the poncho sticking out UNDER the coat?  Classy.  Well planned.

Go Irish, beat everyone else you play!

Number 55: Check!

Redo

So I kind of gave myself credit for #94 - new hairstyle, but honestly.  I haven't had a new hairstyle since the great chop of '00 in London.  If you missed that, ask me for the recap. ("Can I touch it?" says the 13 year old Japanese hair stylist student in charge of my large, thick, white girl mane.)

So, I count a little bit shorter with a few more layers as a change and well, that's probably as fancy as I'll get.  My sisters are much braver than me.

But!  I do have long hair.  And you can style that!  So Nick and I were headed to a fancy-ish dinner and I decided to fancy it up!

I've never actually taken one of the bathroom photos with my phone, so I have to say, I have a tiny bit more respect for those idiots that do it all the time (with the duck face).  But anyway...

 The back

The front

For serious, my first attempt at fancy hair that isn't "down and curled".  I'm proud!

Suggestions??

Um, yum?

We're kind of on a kick to eat weird stuff, I guess.  The latest victim (which, to be honest, it something we've meant to try for a while): uni.

Know what that is?

Pay no attention to the weird martini glass presentation or blurry photo.

 

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Sea urchin!  

Alright, it's actually sea urchin gonads, but one can pretend they didn't know that, right?

Some people love it, I thought it was ... weird.  Maybe if it was from a better place, aka not our local only so-so sushi place?  It's expensive though, so this might be my only adventure with urchin.  Alas.

 Ever had a sea urchin gonad??