I have returned!

And I am so glad to see that everyone followed my instructions and didn't do anything exciting while I was gone. Well, everyone except for curefreak, but I expected that.

Alaska was awesome! I'm trying to convince R that we need to move there for a couple of years. She's not sold on the idea yet, but I'm working on it. I've got a ton of pictures and lots of stuff to tell, so I'll be back with a longer post later.

A girl and her shoes.

Looking for a fairly inexpensive, comfortable shoe to tool around town in this summer? May I suggest these from Land's End.

I've been staring at these in their multitude of colors for a couple of months now and decided to buy a pair for the Alaska trip. I packed my trusty New Balance ones in case these babies didn't work out, but lo and behold I think I'm in love. They are lightweight and airy. I can slip them on and because they don't have shoelaces, don't come untied. I can wear them with socks or without. And look ma! no blisters! They are wide enough to allow my toes to spread but narrow enough that they don't slip on my heels. The bottomline is that they are almost as comfortable as being barefoot. My fat little feet love them. Now I'm going to buy more colors to match all of my outfits.