The cicadas gross me out. I hadn't seen one until today but this morning on the way to the train I saw a bunch on the trees which weirded me out. And then they were on the sidewalk by the train where I had to step around their scattered presence, yuck. I took a picture of one of said cicadas with my poor quality camera phone for example. What is even worse is that while waiting for the train there was one that was on a lady's back and I was freaked out for her. I had to tell her a bug was on her back but I didn't want to touch it; luckily a man came up and swatted it off her with a newspaper.

Some pics of my new apartment:
The bathroom is very 70s - it even has a dixie cup holder on the side of the mirror for any of you who remember those.

Jeff is doing a senior picture shot here in the bedroom - even the lighting looks like a senior shot...and also in the living room:)





My closet will actually be big enough for my clothes to not be all wrinkled and below is the kitchen...here Jeff is doing some plumbing work:)

Never ever should this be done - ever:

Jeff and I were at the mall and had just been making fun of the idea of people wearing matching clothing and then we walk into Express and look what we find. I apologize for the quality: it was with my camera phone which is not great - you can kind of see a tiny bit of jeff's shirt off to the side, I was pretending to take a pic of him but as you can see this kind of matching should never happen.

Pics from Vegas:

The conference went well - better than expected but of course we worked a lot. We did have some downtown in the evenings so here are some pics.

This was the view of the Bellagio from the Eiffel Tower Restaurant we ate at one night.

Brooke and I went up in the Eiffel Tower elevator. We were all excited about it but when we got up that high we were really nervous. Here are a couple views.

The Bellagio fountains were my favorite thing to do. I watched like 6 shows of them.

This is a pic of us at the final day's pool party - we had some photo requests which we found funny.