Aging + GPOY

I am another year older today.

(Heads up, this is a text-heavy post. My bad. But if you read through the entire thing you'll eventually get to an adorable surprise!)

Strawberries!

For the first time in eight years, I spent Chinese New Year at home with my family. Words cannot express how amazing of a feeling it was to finally not have to be alone during this very, very important family-centric holiday.

In any case, I ended up going strawberry-picking one of those days. Yes, it was the middle of winter, yes, it was freezing as hell outside, and yes, most of the better strawberries were all picked and eaten but hey, we still ended up picking three containers full of splendid, scrumptious, sweet, succulent strawberries... So good for us. And yum.

El Retiro en mayo

It's amazing how quickly time passes by. In the blink of an eye, 2013 has come and gone, and I am still backlogged in terms of editing photos from 2012.

As I found some time and determination to edit old photos, I came across these gems that were taken on one of my last days in Madrid back in 2012. I can't believe that it's been almost 2 years since I was last there... My Spanish is so ineloquent now!

And now, I present you: El Retiro en mayo.

The Retiro has its fair share of peacocks and the like.

There was the most adorable little girl with her grandfather curiously following a male peacock around...

La Rosaleda, the rose garden was blooming at that time of year

Just overall a wonderful place to be in the beginning of summer.

I miss this.