POPS!

there are so many reasons i am excited about summer and one of them started sunday night. POPS in the Park!!:) POPS was something my friends and i did every summer, a few years back. there is an outside covering located right outside the embassy suites by southpark mall, and the charlotte symphony performs for about 2 hours starting at 8pm. hundreds of people from the charlotte area gather around in the grassy areas and bring blankets, chairs, coolers and anything else that may add to the fun. the memories of going every sunday night in june are so sweet. there were times that we had over 25 people and other times when there were just 4 of us, but it was always relaxing and fun! nothing can beat being outside on a blanket, in the summer, with the symphony in the background. if you have not been to POPS you should definitely try it. there are still 3 sunday nights left in june!

this past sunday matt and i went with the hoppers. they have been doing POPS forever! we went to eat at Pei Wei (the boys pronounced it Pee Wee and reminisced about old school Pee Wee movies) for a belated birthday celebration for Matt and then headed over to POPS. This was my first POPS expereince since arriving back in the states and it was pretty meaningful to share with with the hopper's. the people that first come to mind when i think of POPS is our close friends James and Blair (and they belong to mama and daddy Hopper). They are currently living in the ME right now and we missed them so much! Here is Blair's blog if you would like to check out their journey. 

I had my camera out the entire time b/c i was working on homework for my photography class. Thanks to Neal and Sherri for being such great subjects!