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#TBT // that time I went to Harry Potter World and became a witch

October 30, 2014

Growing up in Florida, I definitely took our yearly (sometimes more) visits to Disney World and Universal Studios for granted. Even now, it’s crazy to me that some of my friends haven’t experienced the joy of getting a photo with my favorite mascot, Mickey Mouse. Now that I live about 14 hours and 700+ miles north, I look back on my theme park memories fondly as I haven’t been back since I graduated from high school.

My last trip to Universal Studios was about a year after the opening of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter which was, and still is, wildly popular with young, old and everyone in between. Highlights of the experience include Hogwarts up on the top of the hill, Hogsmeade, and the Hogwarts Express.

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College Life Lately

Fall Break at the Forest

October 27, 2014

Every year in the fall, students at Wake look forward to what’s known as Fall Break which is basically a fancy name for the three-day weekend we get off from classes. I usually go home for this break but to switch things up my dad and grandparents came down to Wake Forest for the football game against Syracuse.

Dad flew into Greensboro the night before my grandparents arrived and we got dinner to celebrate the beginning of the weekend. The next afternoon, after my grandparents checked into their hotel, the four of us grabbed a light lunch downtown before making our way over to the Reynolda House. Fun fact of the day, Wake’s campus was funded by the tobacco industry. Yep, the land that now serves as my beloved university once belong to R.J. Reynolds and his wife, Katherine Reynolds, who at one point were considered to be the wealthiest couple in North Carolina. Reynolds was the founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, which is still based in Winston-Salem.

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College Food Restaurants

Breakfast of Course (of course, of course!)

October 23, 2014

Brownie points to those of y’all who know what show I referenced in the title of this post!

On Sunday morning, I met up with my dad and grandparents bright and early to to grab breakfast at Mary’s Gourmet Diner (formerly known and still widely referred to as Breakfast of Course) before everyone headed home. Breakfast of Course is massively popular and people start lining up outside before the restaurant is even open to get a table. While I am usually not a huge fan of waiting in lines, the food at Breakfast of Course is just that good that I was willing to drag my family out into the cold to stand in line for half an hour. I feel like I wouldn’t feel this passionately about the matter if my friends would actually wake up early enough to go with me, but sadly I usually have to wait until my parents come to visit.

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Southern Comfort Food

October 21, 2014

This past weekend my dad and grandparents came to visit me for the Wake Forest-Syracuse football game. My dad flew into North Carolina the night before my grandparents arrived and so we decided to grab dinner at a local restaurant relatively close to campus, Milner’s. As described by the chef himself as “refined southern cuisine,” Milner’s menu most definitely lives up to its promise. The food is four star, with options ranging from trout to risotto and oysters to hanger steak, with a flair of southern charm that reminds you of a home cooked meal without any of the effort on your part. I’ve only been to Milner’s once about two years ago but the dining experience was just as wonderful as I had remembered.

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#TBT Europe Travel

#TBT // that time I became friends with monkeys in Gibraltar

October 16, 2014

After I graduated high school in 2011, my family and I traveled around France and Spain for two weeks. For the second half of our European adventure, we stayed in a timeshare in Málaga, Spain that was right off of the beach. The view from the condo was incredible with both views of the ocean to the left and the distant mountains to our right.

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College Life Lately

Take A Hike

October 1, 2014

A few weeks ago, while my friends Alice and Grace were visiting for the weekend, we spent most of that Saturday outside exploring Hanging Rock State Park. The park isn’t that far away from Wake, maybe about an hour or so, and after their 9+ hour car ride the day before, we all agreed that some physical activity was desperately needed.

Before heading out to Hanging Rock, we stopped for breakfast at one of my favorite bagel shops in Winston, Bagel Station. I’m pretty sure that their breakfast bagels have some kind of magical restorative powers and the prices are cheaper compared to other breakfast places in town. We fueled up on carbs while making a game plan for the day: we allotted about 4 hours for our trip to give us time to stop by Walmart to pick up camo for the celebrations later that night.

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