My cousin Emily

Ok I'm going to do more than one post on my day in Boston with

my funny cousin Emily

because I just have to start out with this...

I love my cousin Emily.

She is funny.

I love to read her blog.

I find her to be very entertaining in every way.

But I haven't spent a whole lot of time with her in person, ya know?

She's quite a bit younger than me and I moved away from New Mexico when she was still fairly young.

So, when I made plans to spend the day with her I was wondering if we would really hit it off

Is she really that funny in person?

Will she think I'm a goofball? 

(I can be...)

Are we enough alike to have fun together?

We began our day together and we were having a very enjoyable time

and seemed to be getting along just great.

Then

I remembered that I had brought her a present!

I had forgotten that it was in my purse all morning.

This:

You see, Emily had actually shown this super cute tea towel on her blog some time ago

and I bought it right away.

But knowing how much she loved it, I bought one for her also.

But I have never mailed it to her ALL THIS TIME.

So lucky for me, she finally made it out here to the East Coast so that I could give her this surprise.

~Anyway, back to the story~

So I say to her,

"OH! I have a present for you!"

And she responded with

"Well, give it!"

"I love presents!"

And in that one moment I knew that I just 

loved this girl

How can you not love someone who says that?

I think that's something I would say

And I think everyone should love me after all.

Seriously I wanted to hug here right there and then as we stood at the sight of the Boston Massacre

So, Emily

Thanks for a fun day in Boston

You are as fun in person as you are in blogland