A belated holiday season

Yesterday was Christmas, and I know that the following photos are from Thanksgiving weekend but I wanted to share them nonetheless. The last few weeks have been eventful, to say the least, and I just wanted to say thank you to all my wonderful friends and family would have been expressing their love and support through the past rough month.

"I no doubt deserve my enemies, but I don't believe I deserve my friends."

-Walt Whitman

Top: holiday windows at Anthropologie, my beautiful turkey, the (official) doctors Petras

Middle: BFF, finally got a star lamp, Picasso @ Daley Plaza

Bottom: hot spiced nuts ;), Chicago Christkindlmarket, the greatest city on Earth

Rocky Mountain Views

I was in Denver about a month ago for a preliminary program interview and just absolutely fell in love with the city. It was another solo adventure, and I'm so glad I took the time to visit! I only had about half a day before my interview, so I decided to rent a car and check out the area as much as possible. The program seems amazing and is located at a Denver community hospital in the downtown area. The environment seems nurturing and fun...as an intern you are able to spend a month abroad and potentially a month on Maui (!!!). I was originally thinking that I would try to stay in Chicago next year but this place seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. It would be scary to move somewhere new for a year but I think my life needs a challenge like that right now...not quite sure what I will do yet, but the mountains are calling me... 

Some photos from my whirlwind 24 hours in Denver...

Top: Tattered Cover bookstore, view from the hospital call room, a cool mural in the Highlands
Middle: Little Man Ice Cream, REI flagship store, Root Down (best restaurant ever)
Bottom: Talulah Jones, Dazbog coffee, globes @ the Root Down Denver Airport location

P.S. I stayed the Magnolia Hotel in downtown Denver and it was lovely.