Recreating Our Not So Big House

My family lives in a small condo in a nice, quiet neighborhood. So quiet, in fact, that it can get really depressing during the winter. When we bought this place, Troy and I thought it would be the perfect transition from an apartment to a real house. We said we were...

New York 2009, Part 5: In Summary

This post is the last part of a 2-week series about my recent vacation in New York. To conclude my trip (at least for this year), I would like to share 5 things I love about New York: 1. I love that streets are always bustling with activity, like an endless pool of...

New York 2009, Part 4: Visited Places

This post is the 9th part of a 2-week series about my recent vacation in New York. I’ve been mentioning that this series of posts is about my trip to New York, but so far, it would seem that I was barely in New York. Rest assured, in between our out-of-state...

A Day in Philly, Pennsylvania

This post is the 8th part of a 2-week series about my recent vacation in New York. After a 3-night stay in Cape Cod, my brother’s family, being the gracious hosts that they are, decided to take us to a one-day trip to Philadelphia, just two days after we got...

From Cape Cod to Mystic, Connecticut

This post is the 7th part of a 2-week series about my recent vacation in New York. On our fourth day in Cape Cod, we decided to leave after breakfast and spend the day in Mystic, a quaint little town in Connecticut, which was on the way back to New York. My brother...

Cape Cod, Part 3: Race Point Beach and Whale Watching

This post is the 6th part of a 2-week series about my recent vacation in New York – still in MA though. Enjoying the Atlantic coast at Race Point Beach on our third day in Provincetown … This is the view when you look inland from the beach. I’m in...