PHOTO // Keep Running

I had a really fun photoshoot this week with a good friend of mine. Her friend, Mindy, is a yoga instructor living in South Korea who has recently started an online magazine. I had the opportunity of meeting her (and attending an awesome yoga class she led) last month and actually tooks some photos for her then. For the magazine's next issue our mutual friend, Missy, wrote an article on running and she needed some photos to go along with it. So, of course, they thought of me (yay!) and now I get to have my photographs in a South Korean magazine! :D I think it comes out next week sometimes and I have no idea which photos she will end up using, but here are some of my favorites from the shoot!

[Check out all the cool shit Mindy is doing! Kaizen // I Write Light // You.IMPROVED]

Over the (labor day...) Weekend... :D

So, I basically forgot about my blog last week. I didn’t really, but I might as well have. ANYWAY, two weekends ago, over the long weekend, we headed over to the Loess Hills in western Iowa. Other than a couple mishaps (including the Hawkeyes losing, some food poisoning and a weird bug in Theo’s tail), we had a good time! Ha, maybe I shouldn’t mention those other things...but seriously, we had a nice time!

We headed over to the Loess Hills, which are apparently hills created by wind deposits...pretty cool, on Saturday. We got set up in our cabin and then headed to the nearest sports bar to watch the game. It didn’t turn out the way we hoped, but we ate some pub food and had a tequila shot, so I was doing just fine. After the game, we headed back up to our cabin and hiked around a bit. The weather and the views were gorgeous.

Sunday, we got up and did some more hiking over on this cool little trail that ran along the top ridge of some hills. We drove around the park for awhile then had a cute little lunch at our cabin. In the afternoon, we headed south towards Omaha and stopped at the Loess Hills Winery for some tasting. All the wine was fantastic and we ended up buying three bottles! When then spent a little time in Omaha, we did some more tasting at the Upstream Brewery, which was also fantastic and ended up getting a growler to take home. Then we had the most delicious Italian dinner...that unfortunately made us both sick in the middle of the night...ha, oh well. When we got back to our cabin, we got a nice fire going and just chilled outside enjoying the nice weather.

What was so fantastic about this trip is that it was low key AND we were able to take Theo with us. He had so much fun...he loves hiking around and going for car rides. OH! And I used a film camera the entire weekend...so i’m excited to get those developed, but for now my phone photos will suffice. :) All in all, I think our weekend was a success!

Did you do anything fun over the long weekend?

Colorado in Pictures

In the last post, I mentioned a recent trip to Colorado. I’ve been to Colorado before, but never as an adult and never to Denver (unless you count running through the airport, which I don’t). For whatever reason, I don’t really have a lot of pictures from Denver and the majority of the week. Probably, because we were just going, going, going! I did, however, get lots of great pictures of the mountains! One night of our trip was spent in a yurt in the backwoods of the Colorado State Forest. It was pretty badass, so I thought I’d just share some of the pictures here. :)

We had such a great time!  All these photos are from the Colorado State Forest and from Red Rocks!

Ever been to Colorado?

-kass