wait, that wasn't the weekend?

today feels weird. like it's monday, but it's actually thursday and i sure am happy about that! having the 4th on a wednesday was like a mini-weekend in between the work week, and while it would have been nice to go to the inlet with all my friends, i had a great time here in charlotte.

last sunday, my bro in law and i had decided we wanted to go to whiskey warehouse on tuesday night. so we invited our friends and all met up around 8:30.  i learned a valuable lesson on tuesday - beer at 7% alcohol is very much like drinking 2 beers at once. we were indulging in this beer: bell's two hearted ale and while it was delicious, it was more like poison. the night was full of seriously fun/ridiculous shenanigans and i woke up on wednesday morning feeling like we were on the hangover. this is the only picture from the evening... what?

katie packed my lake bag for me and scooped me up wednesday morning - talk about an amazing best friend. we headed to the lake where we spent the day floating on rafts and laughing our asses off about the previous night. it was a relaxing day & we got back to charlotte around 9:30pm last night.

fourth of july is my favorite day of the year, even more favorite than my birthday. it seems like the only day we can all put our differences aside and agree on one thing - we are truly blessed to be americans. to live in a country where we have the option to choose - to choose who we want to want to be, what we want to do, what we want to believe in, who we want to spend our lives with - things most of us take for granted. we are extremely lucky.