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Artisan Cheese - Our little Dean & Deluca's

As many of you know, my husband Jay is an awesome cook. We are both foodies as evidenced by our constant struggle with our midsections! (I hate that part of it) BUT the food part - oh so good! Many times you may be looking at a recipe in Martha Stewart or Bon Appetit or some other magazine and find something you want to try but there will be some out of the ordinary ingredient listed and you just sigh and stick it back on the coffee table. Sound familiar? Well, my friends, no more! Judy Allen - a former food stylist for Martha Stewart in NYC - has opened Allen's Gourmet Grocery at 42nd & Peoria just to satisfy the foodies in this town. Judy also had the same problems after she moved back to Tulsa from NYC (she's one of our former brides!) This food boutique is reminiscent of a Dean & DeLuca store. - wire shelves full of great items - cases of artisan cheeses, pates, prosciuttos--beautifully presented as well. It sports a salt bar - different types of salt and she has a menu that tells you what each salt enhances and you can buy just a bit to try it out. All the little crackers, cookies, nuts and goodies you could ever want! I had a foodie gift basket created here and it was the most awesome gift we could have given our friends. Here's the little (iphone pic) snack we're having tonite with our wine - Yummy! Go by and say hi to her and get yourself some cheese!

High Art at the GAP

"Hurry! Get over here quick with your camera!" I'm not sure what the rush was...but thanks for the heads up (off?), Barbra! ~sophia

A Day at the Zoo

It is a rare day that Lisa and I get a day to play. We took our new cameras to the zoo to get a feel for them and all I can say is the I couldn't be happier with the results. Canon 5D Mark II...you rule!

ALL THINGS WONDERFUL

Sophia and I have many blessings in our lives but the ones we cherish most are our darling children and grandchildren. It just doesn't get better than this. Sophia's daughter Jessica (pictured left) has started a BLOG for new baby Lucy - In the Sky with Diamonds - and while we like to post our own photos of her, her mommy is much faster and takes pretty good photos too! Sophia and I have been friends since age 5 so when our kids became friends - well, it's nice. That brings me to my next bit of info.

My daughter-in-law, Megan, (pictured right) has a BLOG that is taking over the internet I think. It's got all kinds of stuff in it and more photos of my granddaughters - Tatum and Taylor - than I have! Well, almost. In This Wonderful Life has movie and TV reviews and commentaries, her obsession with Reese Witherspoon and Kate Hudson, party decor, more pictures of cupcakes than I've ever seen, make-up chatter, her quest to have a baby (we're all praying for this), and just a bunch of other girl stuff.

Take a look if you have a few spare minutes. (or more)

Seattle : an LSD iphone Documentary

Last year, when we both got iphones, we started this little hobby - iphone documentaries - it's a little weird and we are usually the only ones who think they are funny but,nonetheless, we do it anyway. It ends up here in the Trippin' blog b/c it's just something we do for ourselves and our creative inspiration. It feeds our souls and makes us better at other things -- or so we tell ourselves. I've even downloaded an APP for my iphone - night camera - so I can take iphone pics in lower light conditions. It's a pretty cool little thing if you're into that stuff.   We did iphone-Vegas, iphone-Tulsa State Fair, iphone-Scotsdale and now, iphone Seattle.

Anyway, Jay and I recently went to Seattle to visit our dear friends, Rob & Carol Hille, who have recently moved from the farthest corner of the US to the other farthest corner of the US - West Palm to Seattle. This is like the 4th place they've lived since I've known them. We get to visit wherever they go and stay at "The Hilleton". The service is great, food great, conversation the best! Our friends are sooo happy there and we are happy for them. They showed us all around - they've only been there since January themselves! They live in a high-rise and that's what the view of the space needle is all about in the pics. Pretty Awesome! Speaking of.... some of you know that I am fairly claustrophic and years ago when the Hilles lived in St. Louis, I went up in the arch in "The Pods" - it was AWFUL - I stayed up there for hours wondering how else I could get down.  So, the first place they take us to in Seattle?  Yep, the Space Needle.  There's quite a few pics from there while I was getting the guts to go up.  Well, that's done!  Whew!   I'm a ground dweller at heart.   Open spaces.   I'm glad we got that over with first and the rest of it was marvelous.   We went to the open air market at Pike Place, they throw fish around there - the original Starbucks, Elliott's Bookstore - very cool. Could stay all day. We ate at Lola's - yummy food - Greek and thanks to hanging with Sophia, I knew exactly what to order and how to say it! We had a wonderful dinner at the Wild Ginger, breakfast at Lowells, shopping and lunch at Nordstroms and the cutest little store - The Diva Dolls. LOVED IT!Saw an entire store for ManKilts - okay...   Everyone walks everywhere - or takes a Zip car. It's a very "in" sort of place. I could live there too!   People always talk about how rainy and crummy the weather is but I have to tell you, it was pretty good as far as I was concerned.  It drizzled a little but we had sunshine and clear skies most of the time.     There's tons of Starbucks - I had to watch myself so I wouldn't O.D. on grande, no-fat, one-pump, no-whip, Mocha!   Yikes!   I got little name bracelets for my girls, t-shirts, aprons, granola, chocolates.   There was a huge picture in this chocolate shop that was made out of chocolates all placed together.   Interesting.    Here's a little iphone documentary of the trip. (about 90% of these photos are iphone but we did have the 5D with us for a bit one day so there's a few tossed in. See if you can pick them out. haha!) Watch:  Iphone Seattle

Who We Are - PART 1

Since this is the Trippin' blog,  We can put our personal observations in here.  You can get to know a little about us and what makes us work.    So, here's some things I like a lot and not so much - we'll get Sophia to add hers on in Part 2 - and feel free to comment with your own. These are not ranked or in any particular order - just random as they pop into my head.

THINGS I LIKE:

1.  warm weather with a little breeze

2.  partly cloudy skies (God' diffusers)

3.  watching my granddaughters play in the dirt

4.  being a grandmother

5.  my iphone (even though it's not the 3g one)

6.  being alone 

7.  having plenty of hot water 

8.  event planners

9.  my truck

10 making my daughter laugh with just a "look"

11  when the new season of one of my favorite shows starts

12 DVR - missing the commercials of #11

13 Sunday night dinners

14 vision boards

15 the feeling I have when I pray 

16 having wine with my friend while our husbands cook

17 my patio in the summer

18 when my dog runs to the door to see me 

19 good hair days

20 potato anything

21 Starbucks grande, triple, skinny, one pump, no whip Mocha 

22 when someone cries at one of our photographs

23 when someone laughs at one of our photographs

24 friend's house I can wear my slippers to (or no shoes at all)

25 talking to my sister

26 ranting to my sister

27 having a batch action work all the way thru the first time

28 being a photographic artist for a living

29 vanilla bean ice cream

30 standing in line at Ted Drewe's Original stand in St. Louis

31 watching people

32 orchids and african violets

33 having enough points at the end of the day for a glass of red wine

34 getting my hair colored - it's so pretty the first day

35 road trips with my camera and Sophia

36 kids with no front teeth

37 little boys in baseball uniforms 

38 tutus and petticoats

39 dressing in costumes

40 my 85mm 1.2 lens 

41 couples in love 

42 newly sharpened pencils

43 a new box of crayons

44 having all my lens caps at the end of the night

45 chocolate cake balls from Mallory's Mudpies - OMG

46 little baby shoulders and that little place between their necks and shoulders 

47 listening to The Allman Brothers Band and driving fast with the windows down

48 having a really good NetFlix movie in the mailbox when I get home

49 a champagne buzz 

50 putting on clothes right out of the dryer

NOT SO MUCH....

1.  people who have "private caller" on my caller ID

2.  brain freeze 

3.  not being able to see without glasses

4.  small spaces

5.  movie theaters 

6.  crowds of shoving people

7.  making small talk at fund raisers - UGH

8.  having my picture taken

9.  running a batch action and having it get almost done and have an ERROR 

10 having photoshop "unexpectedly quit" and I haven't saved my work lately

11  power surges

12  people who upset brides on their wedding days

13  videographers with 6 tripods 

14  having the edge of a label fold under on itself

15  cold coffee that gets hot and hot coffee that gets cold

16  being short on DVD space by mere MB

17  getting in the wrong lane of traffic on the highway

18  the BIG blindspot in my truck :-)

19  being really up for a session and it cancels

20 driving behind a TownCar in Utica Square 

21  Malls

22  bad martinis

23  dental procedures

24  flight delays

25  cleaning the cat box

26  burnt toast

27  oatmeal

28  slow website with links that don't work

29  identity thiefs

30  being a perfectionist about some things and not being able to stop myself

31  stress eating

32  not having any points left for dinner (ties into #31)

33  hot flashes

34  static electricity in my hair

35  people who correct other people's grammar in public

36  Miracle Whip 

37  fake butter - I really don't believe it's butter and no one else does either

38 big dogs that jump up

39 rodents and people who keep them as "pets"

40 running out of paint

41  forgetting to change my ISO on that first shot coming/going inside/outside 

42 folding chairs

43 annoying ringtones

44 my muffin tops

45 still feeling younger but looking older (this really sucks)

46 being cold 

47 not seeing or talking to my sister for several days

48 the grocery store 

49 having my normal route under construction 

50 being late

We'd love to hear about you!