October 21, 2010
Andi told me I should go back and blog more about Spain and the Amazon because I didn’t really ever get much of a chance to do so. Because I think she’s smart, I’m going to 
Obviously I already talked about how ridonkulous Anna and Andrew’s wedding was, but I didn’t post a ton about anything else.
I’m going to start with something that’s normally the mundane part of every trip we take — the actual traveling in and of itself.
The Madrid Airport is the coolest I’ve ever been. It’s design is incredible. I want nothing more than to go back and shoot a photo session in it. How easy do you think it would be to get special government permission to *gasp* take pictures inside an airport with no flight later?!? Haha, wishful thinking.
I dream of going back to Spain to photograph another wedding in Madrid or Barcelona next time. If even the airport is this beautiful, you can only imagine how gorgeous the landscape outside is
I entertained myself by taking the photo below while Iberia lost our luggage. They are the WORST airlines ever. We had come over on a puddle jumper from Santander to Madrid and our luggage hadn’t fit on the plane so they left it in Santander along with a few other passengers’ suitcases. Seeing as how they knew this was happening, you’d think they would have informed us. Instead we waited for an hour outside the luggage carousel while the Iberia employees told us it would eventually show up. We kept harassing them, asking them if they could call to see if the suitcase had stayed behind in Santander. All four employees refused to do so and continued to repeat, “It’ll be here soon.” They finally called. After THREE HOURS of us waiting in the airport. Sure enough, there the suitcase was in Santander. Fortunately they hadn’t actually lost it but they did make us waste an entire half day.
But I was really only angry on principal. Because seriously, the airport was so pretty and so were the people. I was enjoying just watching the travelers and hanging out. If they would’ve had a Starbucks in the luggage pickup area, I probably would’ve stayed on even after they found our suitcase.
PS. Those black dots are feet, can you tell?
And just for fun, here’s a picture of me eating ice cream at a park somewhere. I dream of going back to that paradise…that ice cream bar was delicious!
I’ll get to more pictures of the actual touristing around later. I know this is weird jumping around in time like this, but it really is a shame that I never posted more about such a great trip and experience, so it’s about time I get on that! Do you still care? Or did my blogging about Spain ship sail long ago?
October 20, 2010
I feel that I don’t have the words to describe Andi. She is beautiful, fun, intelligent, kind and exceeded every single expectation that I had of meeting her in real life. I expected to get along great with her. I didn’t expect her to feel like a lifelong friend from the second we first hugged each other at the airport. I expected her to be even prettier in real life. I didn’t expect her to look like a freaking celebrity walking through customs with her sunglasses on. I expected her to be a very cheerful person. I didn’t expect her to be so genuinely joyful that it made me stop and think twice about my own life and how I can try to put that much positivity into the world.
She is simply one of those people that radiates light and makes everyone around her better for it. Seriously, if you don’t believe me, go check out her blog and tell me that you don’t leave that website feeling happier than when you came.
I have had such a good time having her around in Chile that Emily and I are still trying to plot out a kidnapping plan to make her stay in Chile and NEVER LEAVE US!!! MWAHAHA!
I had the honor of doing a boudoir shoot with Andi while she was here. The W in Santiago graciously sponsored the photo session with a free night’s stay for Andi and I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Rodrigo, the best makeup artist in all of Chile, all of South America and maybe even the world. I’m not exaggerating, he is that good.
On to the pictures.
Good morning, sleeping beauty.
Loving on this natural gorgeousness.
AHHH, FAVORITE EVER! To me this captures Andi exactly the way I think of her — always laughing, always having fun. She’s just stunning.
And yes, sadly for all the little boys out there reading (probably not many, last time I checked my readership was like 80% female), that’s an engagement ring on her finger. Such a cool ring! Such a giant rock!
My main reason for posting this next photo is that Seba thinks Andi is a dead ringer for Shakira in this one. I can see it!
Girl after my own heart. We share a deep and passionate love for champagne, at any hour of the day.
HOTNESS.
This is one of my other favorites from the session! No matter where I go and what I do, I always have to fulfill the need for abstract awesomeness burning inside me LOVE this shot, so, so much!!!
I’m running out of adjectives to describe Andi’s hotness so I’ll just go with, “Ummm, wow?”
And last but not least, up to The W’s rooftop pool for a few more quick photos! It has an insane view of Santiago!
Love this photo. Love The W. Love Andi. So beautiful. All around win.
October 19, 2010
As I believe I’ve mentioned on here a time or two, or you have happened to notice, we’ve been constantly in motion for the past year. Between trips for fun, trips for work and trips for free, we’ve covered a good amount of ground. This form of immersion therapy has basically cured most of my fear of flying. I still have issues sleeping, because I think that the pilot may need my help at any given moment, but other than that, I’m ok.
We always fly Lan when possible for a few reasons. We both like their seats better than Delta’s or American’s, they’re more comfortable. You also get a little TV on the back of the chair in front of you and can watch pretty current movies, TV shows, or play games. Eclipse was on for my viewing pleasure on our way home. I’m such a 12 year old girl. Lan’s flight attendant’s are generally pleasant, I’ve yet to have a bad experience with one, the food is semi-edible most of the time. They bring around free wine, which I use to try and drug myself into a state of relaxation that will let me sleep. They’re generally the cheapest we find if we either wait for their sales, or buy the flights through American (and then you get American prices but you can choose a flight that’s “Operated by Lan.” And the biggest reason is because way back when, I had a break down and started crying and didn’t want to get on a flight because I was scared to fly (again, because I thought the pilot was going to fall asleep. What a strange fear to have.), the counter check lady was really nice to me and explained their rotating sleep schedule and how many pilots are on each flight and then even had another flight attendant introduce me to the pilot when I was boarding. So while I know that Andrea hates them with a passion, I absolutely love them. They’ve never given me a reason not to fly with them.
Anyway, aside from helping me get over silly fears, all this traveling has also given us something else. Miles. Glorious, glorious, miles. We hit the first LanPass status so now we’re “Premium.” Don’t we sound like fancy schmancy d-bags with that title? Being Premium gives you various benefits — you get a few upgrades into first class if they have space, you get to go in the short line at the airport (I am overly excited about this benefit!!!) and your luggage comes out sooner. But most importantly, instead of getting the actual miles traveled from the flight credited into your account, you get additional miles, 125% to be exact. So we’ve racked up a good amount, and we need to decide how to use them. We have enough miles to go anywhere. ANYWHERE!
Where would you go? We have a few ideas in mind, but I’m curious to see if you guys have any fabulous suggestions that we haven’t thought of. As of right now we’re leaning towards adventure tourism’ing it up in New Zealand and then laying around getting fat on some fabulous tropical beach somewhere like Bali, that’s also on that side of the world. We have the miles for the flights so at least that’s free, but we’ll still have to save for a while to you know, pay to breath the absurdly expensive Kiwi air, so this trip might not happen until the end of next year. But still, the possibilities are absolutely intoxicating. Let me repeat myself one more time — ANYWHERE. What a luxury! I can’t wait until we can go! Even though we don’t know where yet
Tell me — if you could go anywhere, where would it be? Or if you have gone all over, what was your favorite place to visit?
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