Five for Friday

Hello! I am so excited to be the featured blogger at the Five for Friday linkup! Thank you to Della Devoted, Coffee With Caitlin, Cup of Tea and Bright on a Budget for featuring me! 

If you are stopping by through the linkup, thanks for dropping by! I hope you will stick around!

1. Did you have a fun 4th? We had a very low-key day. We just hung around the house, barbecued for dinner, made s'mores for dessert, and then went and watched a fireworks show. Not terribly exciting, but it was fine.

2. I've been working on my travel journal the past couple of weeks. When we were in Europe, I wanted to try to remember as much as possible, so I brought along this journal with me. Somehow I missed half a day and messed everything up, so I just started keeping notes in my phone and figured I would re-write it all once I got home. Well, now I have what ended up being 20 typed pages of content to write up! Maybe I'm a little weird, but I actually don't mind hand-writing and I like having my little journal filled with travel memories. Although it is going to take me a while to copy it all down! And, iced mochas are always good ;)

3. I was at Walmart on Wednesday and I came across some fun scrapbooking stuff! I don't usually shop at Walmart, but I was excited to find some cool things. And travel themed no less! (If you've been following along the last couple of weeks, I have been posting about my recent trip to Europe. I just finished posting about my time in London, and am going to be posting about visiting Paris next week.) Anyways, I've tried looking all over online for the travel cards, but I could only find the one large box travel cards on Amazon. (They were half the price at Walmart!) Anyways, I really liked the vintage style and think they'll look great in my scrapbook!

4. We had a pretty crazy storm Wednesday evening! I like a good storm, and I actually kind of miss the big storms we would get in Washington. Considering how dry it is here, lightning isn't exactly a good thing! We did get a bunch of rain though. The news was even reporting that it was raining so hard that the manhole covers were being pushed out of the street! Before the rains came, we had blowing dust from the strong winds. That is pretty rare for here! It reminded me of the huge dust storms we had while living in Arizona. And then we had another storm last night too! 

5. And last but not least, can I get a little nerdy here for a minute? But yesterday, not one but TWO trailers for great TV shows were released! The trailer for season 9 of Doctor Who as well as the trailer for the Christmas special Sherlock episode! My sister and I are pretty excited about them! ;) 

Did you do anything fun or interesting this past week?
Hope you have a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by!