graduated from school in mid june and hung out in chicago for a few weeks afterward which was a nice way to say goodbye to my friends and chicago...
at the end of june i set out for a roadtrip with alexis. we had an amazing time, we went through illinois, wisconsin, minnesota, south dakota, wyoming, idaho, oregon and california... there are a bunch of pics below of all of our adventures
after about two weeks i headed back to chicago and packed up all the belongings in my apartment for a fun u-haul trip back to boston with my mom... it was a lot of driving but it went pretty well... immediately after the cotton fam packed up for the cape and went to emily scott's wedding which was fabulous... the wedding was beautiful and it was fun to see all of the concord peeps in one place
from the cape i headed to nantucket to spend a few days with the tosti family... plenty of beach time which was nice... from there i came home to concord to celebrate my dad's 60th birthday party - we had a celebration at home and then headed to stratford for the weekend which as always was nice and relaxing... post stratford i came back to boston for a week to settle in followed by a fun trip to long island for a couple days with burgess and then a weekend in nyc with burgess, alexis and sejal before starting work on the 16th...
this past weekend i capped the summer off with a trip to cape ann for tom and catherine's wedding. it was a wonderful time with a beautiful location, a trip to the beach, a couple of bonfires and a beautiful really touching ceremony - i was so glad that i could be there with them for this amazing time in their lives!
being back at work is starting to feel more normal - although i keep having this sinking feeling that there is no more grad school get out of jail free card... but before the warm weather really disappears later this week i have one last trip to colombia which i am really looking forward to - will update with pictures when i get back next week!
