There are Benefits to Being in Boston

After Kara's Bachelorette Extravaganza officially finished up on Sunday, 

I stuck around for some quality alone time with Kara & Dave. 

 

We spent much of Sunday talking and churching, 

but there was also some wedding preparation attended to

while I made myself useful in the kitchen.

Monday morning these two headed off to work while I took care of some pieces of my life from their apartment.  

At the appropriate hour, I took myself downtown.

I met Dave for lunch.

I wandered through H&M, Anthropologie, Crate & Barrel.

I visited Kara in her office at Park Street Church, 

and then sat for a few luscious hours in the Public Garden, 

getting some valuable studying done within view of this guy

and the willow trees that are my favorite part of the garden.

When Dave and Kara finished work, we met up briefly, 

and wandered a bit in the sunshine until it was time for me to meet up with

Karen!

(Karen was my roommate in Princeton and now lives in Boston...)

We ditched D & K and settled down at a table in Cafe Jaffa, a Middle Eastern restaurant that I highly recommend.  We feasted on lamb and falafel, and caught up on all of the excitement happening in both of our lives (particularly her newly engaged one).  We relished in the fact that we were actually seeing each other face-to-face, instead of playing our usual game of phone-tag.

We ended the evening with some Turkish coffee--which is quite a way to end an evening--and the perfect way to end the perfect day.