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I always enjoy traveling for shoots, especially when the place is beautiful. It's also nice when I can finally talk about my trips. Given that the photos have been released, I'm taking that I can now share them.

Here are my favorites:
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The last couple are somewhat-NSFW...but we're mostly adults here, right?

I was out with my nephew and happened across a Girl Scout selling cookies at a table she'd set up in the park. She was with her dad, so I struck up a conversation. Turns out Girl Scouts have been selling cookies for 100 years. This is their centennial anniversary.

I bet they didn't have Tagalongs back then.

So, I got a necklace from my Dreams the other day and I've kind of just been trying to figure out what to do with it. I'm going to keep it because it's lovely and my mother gave it to me before she died in the Dreams, but I'm not sure if it works here or not.

Essentially the stone on the necklace is supposed to dampen my necromancer glow and make me less appealing to ghosts, which is great - in theory.

The downside is I'm not sure how to go about testing this without running the risk of summoning a ton of ghosts or zombies....again....

When it rains it pours, I guess. Another Dream. This one was out of order. Does that happen to people often? I've been Dreaming about being in LA, and in last night's Dream I finally went to LA. Took Lucky with me. Clint, have you Dreamed about that yet? "You're not my girlfriend, you can't take my dog"?

Good times, good times.

I should have known getting involved in Musketeer business would be an adventure! I can't say it's bad though, in fact it's a lot of fun. I don't really mind these dreams :)

Wales, why must you break my heart? The English are the ones who are supposed to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory. It pains me to watch the second halves of matches now. Actual pain.

Bo surprised me earlier this month, with both my best friend and a surprise handfasting. I just wanted to call her out because she's amazing.

It was a really nice ceremony. Many cultures have similar rituals and if I get started right now this post will be fifteen pages long. So I'll just say it was very lovely and personal.

And I got to see Sam again, which is always nice.

I saw a sign at a church today that "spread love as thick as you would Nutella" and I think that's beautiful.

I would like to express my displeasure at Pizza Delivery.

I know, you're thinking, how could anything so beautiful be terrible. I get it. I love pizza, I love pizza arriving at my doorstep. But I have beef with how you are assigned one specific location and that's it.

So when I go to order pizza on a week night and my store is closed, and I see another store mere miles further is still opening and delivering for another hour, how is it I cannot get that pizza. Why? I will pay an extra delivery charge. There's a flaw in the system, I'm just saying, and that's it.

I really can't win in my dreams. First, Annabeth gets taken or something like this guy who set a manticore loose on us. Then Thalia wouldn't talk to me because of it. Artemis showed up and took an interest in Bianca, even though I tried to protest. Artemis sent her hunters and Apollo to camp with us. Back at camp I started having dreams about Annabeth, that she was in trouble, so I went to ask the Oracle for help and of course she didn't answer my questions; not that I thought she would.

A couple of days later, there was a game of Capture the Flag and this time it was the campers against the Hunters. Me and Thalia were co-captains and after I accidently lost the game for us, me and Thalia got into a fight, using our abilities against each other until the Oracle wandered into the woods. And let me tell you, the Oracle is basically a walking skeleton in a dress, so how it got into the woods from the attic of the Big House, I had no idea.

Anyway, she proceeds to give us a new prophecy:

Five shall go west to the goddess in chains,
One shall be lost in the land without rain,
The bane of Olympus shows the trail,
Campers and Hunters combined prevail,
The Titan's curse must one withstand,
And one shall perish by a parent's hand

I don't know about anyone else, but I really don't like the sounds of that. And I'm guessing my next set of dreams won't be any better than these ones.

I can hardly believe that Emma and Neal's wedding is coming up so soon. Aside from getting my bride's maid dress and having all the necessary alterations done, I've been making sure that everything is going to run smoothly at the shelter while I'm gone. I know I don't have anything to worry about, but I've never actually been away like this before. It's only logical that I'd worry.

I only hope that I'll be able to enjoy the time away without worrying too much.

I have to give it to my dream self, he's not one to sit idly by when innocent people are in trouble. He puts his money where his mouth is, which is something that I can greatly respect. He's recruited his friends to help him save people from the Reign of Terror in France. Which obviously would be a death sentence to them if any of them were caught, but he's willing to die to help people.