Spring & Summer Intentions

Durham Bulls baseball game summer 2014, homemade peach ice cream at Kiwila Farm, Kure Beach summer 2015, St. Croix August '15, North Carolina summer storm, Raven Rock State Park summer '15. 

1. Swim in the lake or river or ocean
2. Walk to get ice cream at least once
3. Watch a baseball game
4. Take underwater photos
5. Go strawberry picking
6. Take a road trip.
7. Make s'mores
8. Carve our names in a tree in Fayetteville, NC
9. Spring Clean.
10. Go to the antique festival.

I am combining my spring and summer intention lists for this year because well I think its going to be a rather busy spring/summer over in these parts and I don't want to make to make lavish goals or plans but here are a few things that I would love to do this spring/summer. If I only get a few accomplished then that will be okay too any progress is good progress! 
love, Carlee 

Updated June 2nd 2016

The Stranger: Albert Camus

This book was goodish. Idk. The ending was weird and it definitely felt unfinished but that is obviously some of the appeal. The book is only 100 pages long or thereabout so it is a rather short book and it is hard to get to know the characters even the main character. I read this book because it is classified as one of the best books of the 20th Century and has pretty good reviews everywhere. It's not that I didn't like it. It just felt like a book that an English teacher would f*cking love and read way

to much into but the author actually didn't mean anyone to come to those conclusions and the author wasn't even finished with the book to begin with. Okay so thats all my own thinking but it just felt unfinished like I said. I guess that is why people can read so much into it and draw all shorts of conclusions because there is a wide open ending.

Maybe if I read the book at a different stage in my life I would have drawn sometime powerful or awesome from it but this time I did not. It was good and an easy read and I liked there the story was going at most of the points. I just wish it kept going. I just didn't really get much out of it like I think most people do which is okay.

Take my review with a grain of salt of course. And like I said this book isn't that long so if you read 100 pages and don't get anything out of it, it's not really that big of a loss you know.
love, Carlee 

DC cherry blossoms

This past weekend we ended up taking a semi spontaneous trip to Washington D.C. I say semi spontaneous because we didn't actually have plans to go until two days before. We were originally going to go to Asheville NC which is about a 5 hour drive from us. So instead I was like DC is also five hours and the cherry blossoms are at peak bloom. I was just thinking this is probably a once in a lifetime experience. When are we going to only be 5 hours away again, have the peak bloom fall on a long holiday weekend? Probably never so I wanted to make the most of it. Besides there is so much to do in DC that I knew we wouldn't be bored if we went for a long weekend. 

We mainly went for the cherry blossoms and so did everyone else haha. It was so beautiful and it smelled gorgeous! But it was crowded. We ended up walking around the entire Tidal Basin on Friday and Saturday. That is why some photos are the weather is cloudy and some of the photos it is pure sunshine. It was beautiful both days. 

The actual cherry blossoms festival isn't until next weekend but since the blossoms were at full bloom. There was live music, a ton of food trucks, tents with gift shops inside, and other exhibits. It was really fun. We ended up biking a lot as well and going to a couple museums. We went to the Watergate Complex and explored. We also went to the Holocaust museum and in the main exhibit you get little ID cards of someone who was in the Holocaust and you get to go through the exhibit and at the end learn what happened to your person. We ended up both surviving the Holocaust which was cool but we were one of the lucky ones. It was a very emotion museum. We also went to the Spy museum and you had to memorize a new identity for it and if anyone asked you were that person and not yourself. It was rather fun. We had a wonderful time and it was so exciting to see the cherry blossoms just light up the whole DC experience. 
love, Carlee 

Hoodie: Gap

Tank: Sugarplum 

Jeans: TJ Maxx

Sandals: Toms.com