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Last Week at The Village Experience!

This is my last week at my internship. I've been busy finishing up my portfolio and reports to turn in to my advisor. I've also been trying to do last minute Indianapolis thing I wanted to do. Last weekend, Kurt came up to visit me so we decided to have a downtown date night at The Oceanaire Seafood Room. They were having a "Devour Downtown" special and the food was amazing! We had potato crusted lake trout, new england clam chower, and chocolate moose for desert. Seafood is one of my absolute favorite things. After dinner, we went to see Scott Pilgrim vs the World. I really liked it. I've only read the first two books of the series, but I thought the movie was even better.

On Sunday, Kurt and I finally went to the IMA. It was really cool! We didn't spend a lot of time there since we took so long to get going that day, but it was interesting. I want to go back in the fall to see the 100 acre woods. It was just too hot to explore the outdoors that day.

Tonight, I plan to go see Salt with my cousins. Somehow, I've been to a lot of movies this summer! Tomorrow, Sam is doing my hair (maybe bangs?) and then I'll be packing. Saturday, I'm going out with Sam and Steve to Talbot Street's white party. I have nothing to wear. We'll see how this goes. Finally, Sunday I move back to Bloomington. Ahhh! I'll be kinda sad to leave, but I'm excited to move into my new apartment.

Work and Play

This week at The Village Experience has been really busy. We redid the store's product displays and got a lot of new products in such as hand blown glass beer mugs and wine glasses from Uganda. I'll post a picture of them. We also have new sun dresses with new colors and patterns which are super cute! We spent a lot of time making cool displays and setting up a side walk sale for this weekend. Also at work, our wholesale catalog proof was printed! It turned out really well, so that was cool to see it all come together. I've also been working on my portfolio for my internship. It's kind of like my professional scrapbook, so it's fun to work on. I have to get it done soon because the last day of my internship is Aug. 21st. Two more weeks!


I'm excited about this weekend because tonight I'm going with my cousin Patti to the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art to see the grand opening of the Post Secret exhibit. Check it out here: http://www.indymoca.org/. Tomorrow night, I'm having a girls night with a couple of my other cousins that I don't see as often, so that should be fun too. Finally, Sunday I plan to visit my grandma. It's definitely been the summer of family! It's been really nice hanging out with my cousins all summer because I don't usually get to do that very often. My immediate family lives about three hours south, so we don't see the rest of our family too much. Living closer to my extended family has great, especially since I don't have a lot of friends who live here. I'll miss them when I move back to Bloomington!

Family Cook Out

Last Sunday, my cousin and I hosted a family cook out. It turned out really well. Everyone had a great time and I even got everyone to do a group picture!