2011 was a pretty cool year. I did TONS of traveling and saw lots of great friends and family get married.
JANUARY
2011 started off awesome as I was in Japan with Amanda and Lisa (and others!). We got to ride an epic pow day in Hakuba with over a meter of snow. We also made new friends, tried new foods, and went to our first onsen.
Amanda, Lisa, and I left Hakuba and headed up to Niseko to meet up with Team Australia. We pretty much rode fresh pow every day. It was amazing.
We also ate a lot of yummy food. I still miss the udon..and the heated toilet seats!
I got back the US and soon headed to Denver to meet up with Tali for the annual snowboard trade show.
We saw Diplo spin at a private Nike party. I wasn’t impressed.
FEBRUARY
My brother took the whole family to see a Nets game as a Christmas gift. Here is Sly dissin’ Vanessa.
We also celebrated Vanessa’s birthday.
APRIL
My sister Natalie had her big art show at Kean.
The whole family got together to celebrate Easter.
MAY
The New York Public Library kicked off the 100th anniversary of it’s main branch. As part of the celebration I was one of 500 people picked to spend the whole night in the library playing a game called Find the Future. We searched the building for clues that lead us to help write a book overnight.
JUNE
Natalie, my parents, and I headed up to New York for Bike NY’s Discover Hudson Valley Bike ride. Natalie and I did the 30 mile ride and my parents did 18.
JULY
We went camping at Lake Tobyhanna State Park in Pennsylvania to celebrate Independence Day.
AUGUST
My friend Sarah and I joined hundreds of other people dressed in white for a pop-up picnic in NYC’s financial district for the New York City’s first Diner en Blanc.
My friend Lucie from the UK was in Cape May vacationing for a couple of weeks. I had a lovely time visiting her while we went to the beach and biked around looking at the old Victorians.
At the end of August I was supposed to do my first triathlon with my sisters, but Hurricane Irene came and it was cancelled.
SEPTEMBER
My (not-so) little brother Jonathan turned 30!
I was very honored to be a reader at Greg & Claire’s lovely wedding in Milwaukee.
I went to Paris for a week with my mother and my Aunt Peggy.
We had a very special birthday lunch for my aunt at Le Jules Verne in the Eiffel Tower.
OCTOBER
Two of my closest college friends got married on October 1st. I only had the pleasure of witnessing Lincy and JB’s wedding in Montpellier, France. Christina was getting married some 3000 miles away in Baltimore.
After the wedding, Leslie and I traveled to Prague for lots of cool buildings, cheap beer, and good food.
Then we took an overnight train to Poland. We spent our first day at Auschwitz, one of the horrifying places that everyone needs to visit.
We settled into Krakow for couple of days for more good food and the coolest church I’ve ever seen.
We made a quick trip to see Warsaw. It was kinda Disney-like.
My sister Natalie got married during that crazy blizzard on October 29th. The power went out 10 minutes before the wedding began. I was the maid of honor so I have no ceremony photos, but I made the cupcakes.
NOVEMBER
I spent November recovering from the past 2 months.
DECEMBER
Natalie and I went the Devils game on December 16 to watch Scott Niedermayer’s Number retirement.
Christmas!
