Ohio Weekend & Bon Voyage

Ohio Weekend & Bon Voyage

Well this will be an epic post. Here are some image from this past weekend and Monday's outfit.















These pictures are from Glen Helen Nature Preserve. Its located in Yellow Springs and is incredibly beautiful. I first went to Glen Helen in 5th grade with my class, it was so much fun. I've been going back ever since but mainly only to the Yellow Spring. It's actually orange colored because of the high iron content, but the water is so refreshing tasting! This time Kevin and I decided to hike the entire glen mainly the pine tree forest. This was my favorite place in 5th grade and I haven't been back. I was surprised. It looked nothing like it did. There was so much under brush and so many trees had fallen from the hurricane winds Dayton got two years ago. It was so upsetting, I cried. I have carried this memory in my head for so long, and it was crushing. I of course had dreams for this place. Other than that the place was beautiful, a little run down (since Antioch College, who ran the place, went belly up. But they are reopening!) but we managed to walk the entire place which took around 4 hours.... When I went home to my mom's house I found my old 5th grade pictures from Glen Helen.:)











On Sunday Kevin and I lounged around until 4ish when we went down to Carillon Park to ride the bike path along the Miami River (little do people know the Miami are from Ohio and midwest states, why Florida named a city that, I don't know). We rode down to Miamisburg around 11 miles, ate some food, then rode back. On the way down we rode it in a little under an hour, the way back we rode it in 40min. I feel pretty good about that, there were even hills! So yeah we didn't get home to Michigan until 12:30a... Man we were tired.

And now for Monday's outfit, I'm showing it in this post because starting tomorrow I'm taking a blogger vacation. Kevin and I are off on our own adventure, and I STILL don't have a computer... So I guess perfect timing.




} Outfit
  Hat } My mom's
  Sweater } Gift from Mom
  Blouse } Original Penguin
  Skirt } Zara
  Tights } Kohls
  Socks } UO
  Boots } Frye

Huggles,
Lauren

Bike Rides, Donuts, & Puppy Parties

Bike Rides, Donuts, & Puppy Parties

This weekend was a blast, and the weather was incredible. Saturday Jen and I went thrifting where I got an awesome green shirt and the most cutest purse. In the afternoon Maureen, Jen, Adam, Kevin and I took a bike ride on the Paint Creek Trail which runs from Rochester to Lake Orion and it's around 20 miles total there and back. We took our time on the way up to lake orion and stopped by the cidar alond the trail for a quick glass of refreshing cidar and yummy cinnamon apple cidar donuts. Oh gosh they were sooo good.






We made it up to L.O. around 6 and realizing that sunset was at 7 we booked it back 10 miles to Rochester. Luckily we got back in less then an hour, just in time to lay on some grass and watch the sun disappear behind the trees.








On our way back I took some fun pictures mainly trying to catch all the deer we passed. We came across 8 deer, at one point I had to stop because there were deer on either side of me and I wasn't about to ride through their group. We waited for them all to cross the path and were back on our speedy way.







I wish this trail was closer, it's about a half an hour car ride away, it was so beautiful and it smelled so great. Fresh smell of autumn. :)






Saturday night I met up with some old friends that were visiting the D. We had all gone to college together and Mike & Morgan moved back to Pittsburgh last year. I miss them and it was so fun seeing them again, and some other acquaintances. And now Tripp has a new friend named Ira. He's a Jack Russell/Corgi mix too, but as you can see with Kevin cuddling him he looks more Jack Russell then Corgi... But the puppies got along great and I'm sure they are going to be buddies. (Oh and see my amazing new bag and shirt... I love them!)







Sunday Kevin and I rode down to Ferndale for breakfast with the gang before Mike & Morgan headed back.

I didn't pick my computer up once this weekend. Awesome. Aaaand I rode over 50 miles since Wednesday. I have my feature ready for next week, I cleaned my house... I think I deserve some oxfords. :)

Bike Outfit }
  Shirt } Not Sure
  Shorts } Made from a thrifted pair of Levis
  Socks } American Apparel
  Shoes } Converse from Brasil

Party Outfit }
  Cardigan } UO on sale
  Blouse } Thrifted via Regeneration
  Skirt } UO on sale
  Tights } Vera Wang for Kohls
  Boots } Candies via Kohls
  Purse } Thrifted via Regeneration

Huggles,
Lauren