New Email

Just an FYI that I have a new email. Michelle.Svoboda@ymail.com. I was getting so much junk mail and weird messages from World of Warcraft...THEN there was an alert that someone was accessing my account in China!! So I thought it was time for a change. Update your address books!!

4 YEARS!

Today Charlie and I are celebrating our 4 year anniversary. We are going out to a place called Mangoes which is a Long Island attempt at Mexican food ;-) I am excited because since leaving SD i have been going through Mexican food withdrawls!!!

Anywho, sorry I don't have any pictures i have misplaced[lost] my camera! just sharing the loove <33 4 years and couldn't be happier because not only do i have a remarkable Charles Psillos in my life but i have acquired a whole new family too :)

Our List--Of Travels

I had this idea for a blog a little while ago when Charlie and I got back from Canada. Since I met him I have been keeping a journal with a lot of random things, songs we like, quotes, movie tickets, concert stubs, poems, actual journal entries, and a list of all the places we have traveled together. <3

We recently found out that at the end of October we will be traveling to Puerto Rico (my first time and i am so excited!)

Sometimes it get's tricky when you start to do the cities but eh it's your list, do it however you want :-p. I encourage you fellow traveling couples to respond with your's too or even my friend's who are single :) It is a small thing I have been doing and 4 years later I am happy that I have been doing it (that's right I said 4 years, it will be our anniversary at the end of this month!)

So here's the list:

San Onore, CA

Dingman's Ferry, Pennsylvania

Long Island, Montauk, NY

Tijuana, Rosarito, La Fonda, Mexico

Salt Lake City, Utah

Sequoia National Park, CA

Oahu and Big Island, Hawaii

Idylwilld, CA

New Paltz, NY

Santa Barabara, CA

San Luis Obispo, CA

San Francisco, CA

Santa Cruz, CA

Houston and Austin, Texas

Brentwood and Antioch, CA

WestPort, Ontario, Canada

Portugal

Drove through: New Jersey, PA, Delaware, D.C., Virginia, NC, Tennesse, GA, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, NM, AZ, NV, CO, NE, IA, IL, Indiana (soon to go there w/ charlie for my family reunion) and Ohio


I know for some of you the list is a lot longer but hey...Were working on it :)

Baby Tucker

I stole these pictures from Becky! Charlie's cousin Becky who lives in Hawaii (she completely welcomed us into her home when we were done with our stay at the eco-friendly farm in the Big Island) has a little rugrat of her own and she took a few pictures of us with the babe. Charlie and Tucker match, it's pretty cute!

Yankee Game Photos

About a month ago our friend Matt had extra tickets to the Yankee game and he invited Charlie and I to go. We had a great time. I never posted any pictures from it! The stadium was great. Although it was HUGE it still wasn't overcrowded and was easy to get food and walk to the bathroom etc. There was no one exceptionally obnoxious when we were there (probably because it was us) and I had an awesome time. It was definitely a fun ambience and experience. I watched the game for the first hour and then started to get distracted...Not so much so though that I knew the Yankees lost!!

ps-it's funny that half of the guys are all wearing sunglasses on the train...I don't know if they did that to look "cool" for the pictures or if they had them on before..crazy kids

Bad Connection

I have not been blogging anything because my internet connection has been so bad recently! I don't know what it is...It keeps telling me "connection timeout," so I took it to work and it is actually working here..hopefully i can take it home and it will still work!

Anywho I stole some pictures from Jess's blog from the family reunion Charlie had in NY.. Enjoy :)

Canada ay

Well this last week Charlie and I drove to Westport, Ontario, Canada with our friends family. We are close with his friend's family (Kyle). We are actually good friends with his younger brother Kevin too who lives in Huntington Beach, not to mention there family has known Psillos's for years. The drive was about 9 hours but it went by quick enough. We were fishing, making campfires, paddle-boating, swimming, cliff jumping and just relaxing. The boys also did A LOT of horse shoes. The trip was great. Kyle's Uncles came up too and they are really great people. His whole family is awesome! Plus since we actually had adults there we were eating real meals and not just grilled cheese and hot dogs! Even though we ate our share of those too. Charlie and I did our enchiladas one night, we had skirt steak, tacos, mediterranean pasta and Labatt Blue!!! Charlie and Kyle caught so many fish I couldn't even guess...One day they each caught nearly 20! There was a lot of Bass and primarily that's what they were getting.
We also did inter-tubing on the back of the boat, and lounged around on the tube's too! There were lots of spiders and snakes! We were seeing daddy-long-legs about the size of my hand! When we would wake up in the morning there would be 7-10 crawling around on our tent and all you could see is the silhouettes! Creepy but we got use to it quickly. There were also some jumping spiders and Garter snakes! We were actually on Garter lake so I guess that makes sense. Luckily I didn't see any when I was in the water only when hanging out on the dock but there were Copperhead snakes too! Other then that the wildlife was sort of minimal, lots of chipmunks, we heard lots of coyotes and saw some turtles. THey did have huge birds flying around whose wingspan probably stretched about 6ft! There were eagles and turkey vultures. I didn't take a ton of pictures because I would always forget my camera but I have a few of the cliff which was right across the lake from the cabin. I have a few pictures of my friends Lily and Kristen sitting on it...Now Mom take a breathe.. WE JUMPED OFF THAT CLIFF!! We only did it once but it is a good 50-60ft. It was exhilarating and frightening and the same time I can't even describe it. Kyle, Kevin, Charlie, Lily and then I jumped. I wasn't sore or in pain at all after. I have done some cliff jumping in my day in Hawaii and Pennsylvania but it never exceeded 30 feet so I felt very accomplished. It is a taste of what it would be like to base jump or something. I also have a series of pictures taken from the top of the cliff
We had a great time in Canada. We got stopped at the border on the way back so we had to fill out some forms and they went through our stuff. We looked like a couple of punk beach bum kids so I understand why! But it was a hassle..Anywho it was a great time. It was Charlie and I's 3rd out of country venture. I am going to post a blog soon that lists the places we have been for poops&giggles.