christmas before thanksgiving.

last night was the Christmas tree lighting downtown. 

we got there early, so we went into the shops that somerset has set up down on woodward.

after we went into every shop we headed back towards the middle of downtown,

the tree is right down in campus martius, where there was live music, delicious lil food stands and people ice skating!

i kinda missed the flipping of the switch to turn the lights on though, because some security guy was trying to get us to move to an "authorized" area of standing. a guy to the left of me responded, 

"this is detroit, we ain't gotta listen to you."

so, we all stayed and took our pictures, 

but i missed the switch flipping.

it was kind of magical though to be staring at an unlit tree, get distracted, then to look back again and see it all huge and shining with all the multi-colored lights..

on another note, i got the new iphone and it is huge.

well now i gotta get refocused on thanksgiving thanks to the brief intermission last night,

xo. alexandra

tonight.

tonight was amazing!!

some friends and i went down to Midtown to see the Dlectricity event going on.

this is the first year Detroit has put on the nighttime exhibition of art and light and i am really hoping that its not the last.

35 different artist came to set up different pieces around midtown, each piece unique but have a common factor,

light.

everything moved, even the projected images.

the scale of some of the projects were..

I was just in awe.

(so please don't judge me on my photography skills i have no clue how to get decent pics at night :p)

the night started off with some tea/ coffee at 14east on woodward.
Gotta get that joe! 

a cute moving robot <3

these teepees were set up in a circle around a campfire! ekk!
ilovedthemsomuch

dont worry though, tomorrow night it's going on as well.

www.dlectricity.com

maybe i'll be seeing you tomorrow at the 7'o'clock light, bike ride. boys make sure to wear your beards.

now i'm off to eat some left over chinese take-out. it's kinda my fav.

xo. alexandra

(thanks to my amazing church family that went tonight even though it was pouring rain and freezing cold, I am so loved)

The Island.

So last Thursday thru Sunday was my schools "winter break"

Basically its a free-be between Christmas & spring break.

It's pretty great,

not gonna lie.

My friend David invited a few of us down to his house in Galveston, Texas,
and his parents generously let us post up there. 

I must say it's probably one of my most favorite cities I've ever been to.

It not only has the cutest downtown, beaches(the water is a little brown) & lots of history

I also met some amazing people that reside there.

(if you click on the pictures you can view them at a larger size)

We started out the trek the three of us just talking
and listenin to tunes

Stopped in Houston for a little shopping.

I'm stopping here the next time..

What a great beard. Holla.

Once we reached Galveston it wasn't too long until we loaded back up to get some dinner.

Unfortunately I totally forgot the camera,

but once we were done eating we drove back to David's house to pick it up so we could take pictures downtown.

They're kinda blurry but Galveston's downtown is just too awesome not to show. 

 

the gang.

The Strand.

 

Oh, and it was Mardi Gras so there were venders set up in the street.

We went so late though, everyone was packed up.

 

It was funny to me to see so many palm trees
 everywhere

I love dragons.

Opera House that has been around since the 1800's

 

 

Some ally

Oh the south..

Statue by the beach c/o Ramon aka Poka

After the first night there the camera died..
Soo disappointing!!!
The last night was amazing,
David had a birthday party/ bike ride
and then we spent the entire night just hanging out and making memories
(that night was a blast)
we didn't leave until after the sun rose.


Thanks to all the people I met those few days
and to David's family for letting us stay with them:)
Can't wait to visit again..
xo. Alexandra

Tent Sweet Tent.

At SAGU, the first Monday of every month is "open dorms."

We can't have guys in our room every day,

so the school generously gives us two hours, one day a month to hang out with the opposite sex in our rooms. ha

It's really not bad.. and it does make for a fun night.

Ashley and I decided to invite some friends over for tea in this absolutely amazing blanket fort we built..

Yay for TEA!

I made this little sign for the the tent.
The girl on the left is Ashley and the one on the right is ME!

Kayla.. she's the best:)

David's on our lil' stool..

Once everyone got to the room and had some tea,

we got started on a little fun game..

a paper game where no one actually wins.

How to play is everyone writes a sentence an a sheet a paper,

then everyone hands it to the person on their left and that person has to draw a picture of the sentence.

This keeps going until the piece of paper you started with gets back to you,

then everyone reads them and shows the drawings!

It's really funny to see how everything ends up.

I love this picture of Kayla laughing at Weston (her bf),
classic.

As I was going through the pictures to see which ones were usable or not, 

I got to this one ^ and realized I had forgotten to put on a little makeup..

I'm just glad I didn't forget to put a bra on..  

Ozmar!

Of course the night ended with watching YouTube videos..

the favorite American pass time.

Who knows why Preston was making this face...

It was a fun night.

Well, until next month!

xo. Alexandra