i have friends in boston.

i feel like most of my posts are about me having solo adventures or having visitors so i'm here to say i really do hang out with boston friends sometimes! even if those friends are usually my roommates.

this first friend would be brie. i hadn't ever had this cheese before and everyone raved about it so i was excited to finally try it and i liked it! we noticed the very last piece in the bowl was shaped like a heart, it was very fitting. my friend izzy made that salad and it was delicious and she is great (btw).

meet rachel van. some of you might already know her from her provo days (or when she lived in our yellow house before we lived there!) she is a treat and i'm glad she loves asian bubble tea and being awesome.

carrie and erica are two of my new roommates and i love them. carrie has taught me the glory of zumba and we bond over making up routines together and erica is the sweetest and most genuine person alive. she has also seen a million broadway musicals which i think is pretty impressive and worth noting.

oh hey there she is again! i found one more picture from friend mike's party. for some reason so many hipster glasses were lying around so don't worry that i took a pair (okay they let me have them i didn't steal them) but will never wear them for real because they look so stupid on my face! this saddens me.

sister missionary friends. definitely ran into them in china town on their preparation day which made me happy on so many levels. seeing them buy all the little asian trinkets and stationary took me right back to when i did the same thing. except i think this was a one time event for them and i can't really say that about myself.

they pointed out these shoplifter pictures hanging up and i died. i love asians so much.

fhe friends. impromptu poetry night was a hit obviously. look how happy everyone is! my poem was about my kindergarten crush, adam allen. if only we were still friends so i could show him it. ps i want you all to know that the guy on the stool is not just any guy but joseph from those bible movies the church just put out a few months ago. i was so happy someone finally pointed it out to me because i couldn't tell why he looked so familiar haha

the last few weeks were so nice that many roommate walks happened along the charles river.

these are not my friends but i enjoyed walking behind them. i thought it was so funny how she only had her bum covered and he had everything but his bum covered. i wonder if they planned this joke.

more walks with roommates! charles river walks are seriously the best. honestly when i say the term roommates i usually mean maren. she served in the philipines and gets my love for asia and macintosh computers. she is a really nice friend to have and it is so convenient that we are both out of school!  this is a very good thing for our friendship.  

this was when we saw the very first blossoms of spring. she looks puzzled but don't let that fool you, she was really excited

now pretty lady in the pink would be our downstairs neighbor kallie. she is the life of every party and really so much fun. she makes me sad i didn't bring my rollerblades!

so much happy singing for maren's birthday.

friendship is about buying all the ingredients for cookies without a recipe and then trying to think of how to make them on the spot, again, without a recipe. i guess the fact that i have only made cookies from scratch once in my life proved to be our downfall. they look especially awesome because we put green dye in them since it was almost st. patricks day. they ended up tasting a little like pancakes! so even though they look like a failure they weren't completely.

this cute man is my new church friend who used to be a photographer but became blind from diabetes ten years ago. we bonded over that and architecture and i just really like him. he claims he is going to show me all around the city but we will see if that really happens haha

i thought i would mix things up a bit and end on a sad note instead of a happy one.

these three pictures above explain the sad tale of when all the good flavors of slurpees were too frozen to come out but all the other flavors were too runny so they ended up just being disgusting. within five seconds we just threw them in the trash and cut our losses. this was a very disappointing first slurpee experience of 2012 but i am optomistic for slurpee runs in the future.

anyway. sorry this post said the word friends 203948 times. i bet that wasn't annoying at all!