BACK EAST {warning: picture overload}

This past week I was able to go back east and visit some states I had never been to! It was amazing, beautiful, wonderful, etc etc etc.

I got to visit one of my favorite people in this entire world, Mizz Sarah Foote! She let me stay at her house in New Hampshire and I got to meet her wonderful parents. She showed me such a fun time- I was there a little less than a week but it went by so fast!

Add four new states to the list: New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, & Rhode Island

The beach is about 15 minutes from Sarah's house: 

I love the beach! one of the many beach pictures I took:

In York, Maine, yes we did get our palms read. judge us. I am going to get married in my early thirties and will have 3 children. I am also interested in something in the medical field. What???

Sarah is an old soul and has lived a previous life. She will get married in her late twenties and have 3 kids. hahahaha

Lighthouse in York, Maine:

Sarah's Aunt let us ride her moped around Kennebunkport, Maine. I fell in love with that lil town!:

So romantic... hahah

One day we went to the White Mountains in New Hampshire. It was so beautiful and green up there. Different than Utah Mountains though, more like rolling hills :)

Sarah, me & Meg

Beautiful waterfall:

Sarah's latest fling:

Oh the things that will entertain us:

One day we went to BOSTON! wow I loved that city. 

This is a world war two memorial. There are about 7 or 8 glass cylinders you walk through and they are covered in numbers which is how the prisoners of concentration camps were known as. so sad. :(

There were quotes like this all along the path:

Our new watches. We may even call them BFF watches. We are 20 years old. judge us. hah:)

Justin Beiber! OMG!!!

Sippin some lemonade at Quincy Market:

The old Granary Cemetery in Downtown Boston:

Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, Ben Franklin & victims of the Boston Massacre are buried here.

Beautiful park in Boston:

George Washington Statue. So much history in this city:

View of Boston from the Prudential tower:

Sar & I in Boston Harbor:

We took a cruise around Boston Harbor when the Sun was setting: It was breathtaking!

On the last day I was there we went to Newport, Rhode Island! It was such a gorgeous little place. I can't lie, I never thought I could say I'd been to Rhode Island. :)

Rocking my new Boston Shirt :)

They had all of these GIGANTIC mansions everywhere that you could take tours of. They were amazing and I wonder what it was like when people lived there back in the day. 

They were totally out of Pride and Prejudice, I know my Martin cousins would have loved it! :)

Beachin it: :) :) :)

Only the best cookies ever ever ever:

On the last night we went to the Counting Crows concert- It was aMAZING. it was an 18 and older concert, and if you were under 21 you had to have these huge Xs on your wrists so you couldn't buy alcohol. We felt like some kind of rejects. haha

Counting Crows and Augustana. I found it very fitting that Augustana played, "Boston"

ANYWAY.. this trip was so awesome! Words really can't even describe. thanks to Sayruh for the can't eat, can't sleep, reach for the stars, world series kind of week. :) 

West Yellowstone and to the top of Mt. Nebo

Last week I was lucky enough to get the week off for work because the people I work for took a trip to Lake Powell, so I did my own fair share of fun things! 

On Monday and Tuesday, I took a road trip to

West Yellowstone:

We had two friends that have been there all summer performing in the plays at the Playmill so that was the point of our trip. Holy cow can I just say best roadtrip ever?? My friend Parker was able to bring his Windstar, so we were all in the same car. We think of her fondly as, "Winny"

So for the couple of days that we were there, we saw some of the sights of West Yelli and saw our friends Brittany and Shelby in their shows:

I can't even begin to tell you about all of the inside jokes that were formed on this trip. I gained a new nickname, "Tampy Patty" Loooonng story

Holy Guacamole Yellowstone is such a beautiful place:

Old faithful was pretty sweet! It took forever to finally blow though

Just waiting for Old Lateful:

It was so good to see Brittany and hang out with her for a couple days!

Jennika and Shelby were reunited and they were ssssooo happy:

Brittany played the part of Dorkas in 7 Brides for 7 Brothers. 

ha. ha. ha.

The crew after the show:

Here is the best part of our entire roadtrip: we all got wildlife shirts with our names on the back. 

They consisted of dream catchers, spirits of the wildlife, wolves, bears, flying eagles, etc. 

Mine is a personal favorite, a bit of a dream sequence with wolves dreaming of other wolves. 

Can you say first day of school t-shirt??

The day after I got home from Yellowstone, I met up with my cousin Jon in Provo and we climbed to the top of Mt Nebo which is the highest peak in Utah at 11,877 feet. I thought I was going to die. But I made it! 

It was so beautiful up there:

We were so high that there was a cloud up there with us. 

It was amazing being up there so high!

The group at the top:

And to finish off this post, look what I happened to drive past on my way out of town last week: How could I not take a picture??

I love this temple!:

Well that concludes this post. I think I'll go to New Hampshire on Friday, see ya when I get back! (No but seriously.)