The Most Romantic Park. Sigh

So basically I’m just going to tell you about this amazing park that I went to yesterday. In Dortmund, Germany.

You know those movies, mostly in romantic comedies probably, where this adorable couple madly in love go on an amazingly romantic date to a park that is so incredibly beautiful, surreal, and fairy-tale-like, and then they end up falling in love deeper or he proposes or they just have a tender pic-nic? {sorry for the mega run-on sentence} Welp, I just found that park, people. And I am bound and determined that when I fall in love with the person I’m going to marry, we’re going to go to a park just like it. Go check my “things I will do” list at the top of this blog on a tab. It’s now on there. 

Seriously though, it’s like I was on the set of a movie.

{yes, no one needs to tell me I’m an incredibly hopeless romantic. I’ve known this my entire life. I just love, love. K? No big deal.}

This park was so lusciously green.

There was a little carousel that kids were happily riding on; a playground kids were running around and playing on.

Adorable German daddies that were giving their toddlers piggy back rides or teaching them how to kick a soccer ball. {that makes a girl’s heart goes awww!! Seriously, what is more adorable than a dad who loves their kids so much? Not very many things.}

Old couples that were helping each other walk with canes and walkers. It reminded me of president and sister Hinckley. So. Cute.

There was a dance floor where couples were legitimately dancing. Like the tango, waltz, and a ton of other dances. They were really good! And they looked so happy and in love! I want to learn how to dance like that!!

The dance floor, when it got dark, turned into the young kids {my age ish} dance. They played popular American songs and I got my groove on with Whitney, Addie, and Lindy.  Because that’s how American’s dance.  We don’t know how to do the romantic kind. Just the kind that looks ridiculous. “Embrace the weirdness, own the weirdness.” –Whitney

I saw a fe people playing badminton. {Betsy, I thought of you.}

There was this game where people were rolling these metal balls down this court thing. Lindy said, “Bowling meets horseshoes.” Which kind of looked like it was true. They were old guys who were playing.

People were having Picnics. Couples on dates kissing on their blankets.

Everyone had a BBQ. We bought German bratwurst and grilled with red and orange peppers and it was delish!!

The people on the study abroad doing 19^th century work brought their tent and were doing tintypes via the collodian process. So they had their 8x10 cameras out on big tripods and were getting people to model for them and then the park took on an even more movie-like quality. People would go up to them and ask what they were doing and took a particular interest in the process because most of them had never seen that kind of thing done before.

We met some photo students from the college of photography there in Dortmund that were in the park and helped them with a random photo project they were doing.

There were gorgeous purple flower bushes throughout the park.

There were food vendors and booths selling things.

A live band playing music and most of it was in English!

An outdoor movie theatre thing were the huge soccer game London vs. Berlin was playing and people were so excited about it!

This park was seriously amazing.

The only things that could have made it better would have been-

No cigarette smoke

And

If there was some sort of pond or river or water feature.

Here’s a funny part though. You know how in movies there are usually homeless people in the big city parks that try to steal your food or things or dig through the trash? Well, here, the bums steel your water bottles or pop bottles because they can turn the bottle in to most any store and get 25 cents per bottle!! I saw this happen with my own two eyes! I think 3 or four people in our group got their drink bottles stolen when they were not even 10 feet away from where they were sitting. Mine never got touched, which is weird because I’m pretty sure it was less hidden than everyone else’s. The bums literally had 3-4 huge bags of bottles! I should have been doing this too! I need some extra money!

the dance floor

If America started doing this, there’d be a lot less littering.

Anyways, to say the least, I’m in love with this park.

I want to put like 50 pictures up, but every where we’ve stayed has incredibly slow and annoying internet. For some reason, blogger takes soooo long to upload pictures and facebook is a lot faster, so hopefully I can put pictures up there soon.

Happy Sunday. I’m in Cologne, Germany now.

p.s. I’m in need of a large dr pepper. I’m scouting one out tomorrow. None of this coke crap. They have 6 drinks here- coke, diet coke, fanta, apfel {apple} juice, sparkling water, and this weird stuff that’s like my brother’s “suicide” drink where a few flavors are mixed together. Oh, and beer. Lots and lots of nasty smelling beer.

XOXOXOXOXOXOxoXOXOXOXOXOXO

Break-up letter

I saw this video for the first time last year. And It cracks me up. Thought I'd share. 

But, i do have to mention a few naughty words towards the end I believe. 

i know, I shouldn't think it's funny. but I do. 

So, if you choose to listen/read it, beware. 

It brightens my day to know that there are such smart people on Earth. 

If I ever write a break-up letter, i'll have someone read it dramatically and post it for you to see. 

or maybe I'll write one just for fun with horrible punctuation and English. But, this will have to wait because I'm just doing this blog to take a break from studying. 

I have some good news and some bad news and some more good news.

G.N. The lilac bushes are in nearly full bloom!!! 

B.N. old farm doesn't own one. psh. LaMe!

G.N. I spotted one on my home a few days ago and I stopped the car, parked illegally, and literally ran and smelt them!

B.N. Betsy thought i was a psycho and took a picture of me smelling them.

G.N. I'm posting the picture for you because I'm that good of a blogger. :)

This picture made me realize how long my hairs are getting! And once again, it looks auburn. Weird. I swear every picture taken of me lately it looks red. Maybe it's changing color again. It was blonde when i was little. Maybe it'll turn green next. *crosses fingers ;)*

Moral of the story:

Take time to stop and smell the lilacs. Cause they only last a short amount of time and they smell sooooo good! 

I'm going to have at least 6 lilac bushes in my future home. 

and I'm going to have them all over my house when they're in bloom in cute white porcelain vases and containers. I can't wait. 

Also, if I ever got to choose the time I got married, it'd be beginning of May because of this flower. Random true fact of the day. 

8.5 days till the largest adventure {thus far}of my life............. shnikes! 

Dropping out of college to become karaoke stars

You know those times where you think, "self, I'm a super star!" ??.

Tonight, Just happened to be that sort of night. 

Here I was, minding my own business making oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, in the middle of talking to a photography client about her wedding I'm shooting when my dear friend and roommate, Allison, tells me we need to go to Karaoke night at Pizza Pie Cafe.

If that wasn't the best thing my little ears had heard all day, I don't know what was. 

So I talk Betsy into going too, {because lets be hhhonest, Betsy and I have sung karaoke together since..... probably the dawn of the dinosaurs.... or when they started selling bread in the store. either one.} we have a list {extensive} of songs that are "our songs". {not "our song" by T. Swift} We decided tonight if we were a couple getting married, we'd have to have a lot of first dances.

some of them are as followed-

*Hero, Enrique

*My heart will go on, Celine Dion

*Your love is my drug {w/ Laurenita}

*Uptown Girl, Billy Joel

*Total Eclipse of the heart

*No life without wife {from the great movie "Bride and Prejudice}

*All I want for Christmas is you {pop version}

*If you want to be happy for the rest of your life never make a pretty woman your wife

*It's raining men, Weather girls

*a lot more that I can't think of at the moment.

We Try to sing Hero first when doing karaoke because we're really good at it. 

But tonight, they didn't have that song. So we sung my heart will go on. 

worth it?

YES!

Blogger wouldn't upload it cause it's too big so I had to make this youtube account thing, which made me make this "channel" and they didn't have the name I wanted. It was a trial. So i ended up with the channel called "blueyedbrunnetteful" or something like that. Don't judge. Betsy's idea. 

regardless. the video is available for you to see because It's on Youtube. It's a pretty stellar Video. thanks Jake for taking it. 

here's a list of things for you to look for in it-

Our #1 fan videoing us up close and personal {kev, I want to see that video}

Some guy turning the lights off so it added to the ambience of it.

Everyone getting out their cell phones

people singing along.

The crowd standing in the back

Betsy and I's lyrical dancing

the slow clap at the end. {that's what it's called, right?}

The DJ himself videoing us. {he didn't do this for anyone else. heh heh.}

the crowd going wild {well... ish?}

Regardless, I feel bad for the poor guy who sang after us because it was a hard act to follow. I think we were by far the most entertaining. Everyone else just stood timidly and sang. {mostly}

Pretty sure it was the highlight of our karaoke career. 

Sorry ya'll missed out. 

We're available for hire now though.... JOKE! 

so Without me rambling on anymore, Here tis the video {pronouce "video" in that last sentence like "veee day oh" it's funner that way.}

How do you think we did?

Dear future children, 

yes, your mom was cool once. 

Some goals of mine

This summer, as you all know, I'm going to Europe. Well, I have been thinking of goals that go along with it.

• Read the entire Book of Mormon while i'm there. I'll be gone nearly 2 months. This is doable. 

While in Euorope i know that i'll be introduced to things that i've never been introduced to before and be tempted to do things i've never been tempted to do. I'll be away from home and with people I don't know as well as my friends and family here in utah. Along with this, it'll be the first time in my entire life that I won't be in close proximity to a man that holds the priesthood. Honestly, this makes me a little worried. If i've ever needed a blessing, I know there'd be someone very close that could give me one in less than a moments notice. I won't have that on my trip. Therefore, i know i'm going to need the spirit with me more on this trip than i ever have in my life. I know that reading the Book of mormon will help with this and I know will lead to an increase in my spiritual strength on this trip.

• my physical healthiness goal. Not going to write exactly what that is up here cause it's personal. But, I've been doing really good at it this semester.

I want to be able to look back on the pictures i have of myself from this once in a lifetime opportunity for me to go on a study abroad and be proud of how I look. Right now, I can run farther, longer, and faster than I think i've ever been able to do, and i am actually enjoying it! {most of the time} I feel happier when i'm done, and I can start to feel like i'm actually accomplishing something. It's a good feeling.

• Learn to make myself happy instead of basing my happiness on the opinions of other people. 

I like to make other people happy. I don't think it's a bad thing... I just am realizing that by doing this, I make myself unhappy sometimes. How i'm going to do this, I have no idea. I'm still working on it. I think it's going to take a lot of work though.

This is all for now.

What Women Want. {not the movie} + Wedding Bouquet.

I saw this as a comment on a friend's post on Facebook and literally liked it. 

"I've decided what women want. Women seem to want contradictory things in a man. 

Women want a man who is ambitious, an achiever who is successful both professionally and financially… who’s not materialistic.

Women want a man who is solid, steady, consistent and reliable…. Who is fun, unpredictable and spontaneous.

Women want a strong-willed, decisive man who takes a stand and does not waver… as long as he flexible, open minded, and can admit when he’s wrong.

Women want a realist who is romantic.
A guy who’s serious… but playful.
Who’s confident…but humble.
Who’s horny {i'm changing this to romantic}…but faithful.

Women want a man who’s career driven…but family oriented.
Women want a man who’s smart… but not nerdy.
Caring… but not needy.
Affectionate…. but not clingy.
Protective,… but not possessive.
Emotional…but not neurotic.
Funny…but not a clown
Dominant,…but not domineering
In control…but not controlling."

I don't see the problem.... 

I feel like the in-between in all of those would = the most perfectly imperfect man. 

p.s. Ask me how sad I am to have to go back to school on Monday. 

In case you just talked to your computer screen, the answer is "way sad".

p.s.s. {or is this supposed to be p.p.s. ??} because I stalk a lot of photo blogs..... the following should not be weird to you-

I found the future bouquet for my {in the verrry far away future} wedding. I had this idea in my head for about 2 years {please don't ask me why}, but have never seen anyone do it. Kind of made me sad that someone else has done it, but then again happy to know that it really does look pretty beautiful. I'm somewhat leery to post a picture because then all of my  friends {what seems to be about half of them are engaged or will be shortly... weird} will steal my idea of my future bouquet. So I hereby say, "no touchy" because I really want to post a picture{s} of it and don't really want my idea to go "viral" as they say when it is in a youtube video. so, here goes.

i think maybe a few more billy balls in there though, and i want lace wrapped around the stems, not ribbon. but, other than that i love it. Deep deep purple carnations with yellow billy balls. my dream.
don't you think purple and yellow are good colors for a wedding?

well, there's the random "p.s.s." that has absolutely nothing to do with what's going on in my life right now. But none-the-less, it made me happy tonight to find it.