Five (plus two) for Friday (on a Thursday): Technicolor sky

I'm peacing out early this week hence the Five for Friday today. But it's with good reason. The fiance and I are road tripping it to San Diego this weekend to cheer on our alma mater at their football game at Qualcomm Stadium. 

We're staying in a sick beach house with a bunch of our alumni group homies, and it's going to be one fun-filled weekend. We have a pub crawl in the Gaslamp Quarter on Friday, a huge tailgate before the game Saturday and Sunday will be spent searching for our livers, I'm sure.

In the spirit of travel and because I've been kind of a slacker around these parts (I'm working on a client's blog redesign), I wanted to share a few pictures from my plane ride back to Phoenix from my Montana adventure. (And I totally will post photos from that experience. It was everything I hoped it would be, and I basically want to move there, now).

I always carry my point-and-shoot in my purse because you never know when the opportunity to capture an image will present itself. And if you couldn't tell, I heart taking sky pictures, which is maybe why some of my fave photos ever were taken from an airplane.

I let my imagination take over while editing these. Hope your weekend is just as colorful!

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50 states: On island time (Part II)

Our San Juan Islands adventure was so fun, it had to be broken up into two parts (check out the first half here). The latter portion of the trip was spent at Stuart Island, Orcas Island and a night at the marina in Anacortes. 

We enjoyed a spectacular hike to an old schoolhouse and a lighthouse, incredible sunsets, an unexpected but very cool tour of a tugboat, a yummy feast the fiance's mom made for his 30th Birthday, checking out a wedding venue (come back for more on that) and delicious meals at two of our go-to restaurants (Calico Cupboard and Rockfish Grill) in Anacortes.

I already can't wait for next year's boat trip!

Come along with me on my past adventures here and check out more of my photography here.

Scenes from the weekend

Because it's always fun ...

Looking up at a pre-monsoon sky;

Spending quality time with your sorority lil sis when she comes to town;

Reaching yet another mileage milestone;

Eating dinner at your favorite Thai restaurant;

Taking in an exciting baseball game;

Seeing the feline use the fiance's clothes as a bed;

And making the best of a heatwave poolside.

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50 states: On island time (Part I)

The first batch of photos from our annual boat trip to the San Juan Islands are ready for your viewing pleasure. As always, it was an incredible trip. The fiance's parents, the fiance and I visited Matia Island, Stuart Island and Orcas Island.

Camping out on the boats, hiking, crabbing, meeting new people (including fellow WSU alums), checking out two wedding venues (more on that later) and celebrating the fiance's big 3-0 with a fabulous dinner cooked by his mama were a few of the highlights.

I'm so blessed the fiance and his parents have adopted me into their tradition. Not only are the islands amazing, but the quality time we all spent together was a lot of fun.

See more of my quest to visit all 50 states here.