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‘Half Full’ Brewery

Fanny Sura13 August, 201714 August, 2017Leave a comment

On Friday night, after Jim came home from work, we took an uber to the Half Full Brewery. It’s only a few minutes away and uber here is super cheap. Unfortunately they don’t have brewery tours on weekdays so we will have to go back a different time. But we got to try all their beers there. We bought a few full size glasses and then a few samples (I didn’t actually like any of the samples, J chose weird peach and pee smelling beer samples).

Outside the brewery there was a truck selling food from Puerto Rico. Omg, this was awesome! We bought a rice and pork dish with plantain, a mixed meat sandwich and beef empanadas and brought it in to the brewery to enjoy with all the beer we tried.

It’s a pretty small brewery but it’s fun to visit no matter the size. I like their IPA’s but I’m not so impressed by the other beers they have. Would be fun to see the actual brewery though. It will be another weekend adventure:)

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Indoor Skydiving

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My birthday was six weeks ago. I told you then that my husband took me on a surprise car trip to iFly Indoor Skydiving in Westchester, NY. Let me tell you, this was super fun!

We were in the second group of the day so we got to see how it works before it was our turn. It’s very simple. Basically you just have to keep your legs and arms out and not look down. It’s very loud from the wind inside the tube so the instructors have a few hand signals for you, like if you need to relax, keep your head up, bend or straighten your legs. Jim was the first one out there. He was awesome right away. And then my turn. Iiiihh!! So much fun! I felt that she let go of me a few times. It helped to understand that activating your center really works, I have dance to thank for that. We had grandparents with their little grandson going in after us. The kid, who was 5, did so well.

In the basic package you get to go in twice, two minutes each time, and you get to learn to just basically stay in place and figure out how to do it. As a birthday gift from iFly, I got to go up higher the second time, and Jim paid for doing the same thing. The instructor holds on to the side of you, releases her legs from the base and you both go up and down in this tube. The grandmother didn’t wanna fly a second time and the kid first said no but the instructor convinced him that it’s fun to jump on the base of the tube and when they were in there he eventually said he wanted to fly again. Too cute. Since there was a bit more time left for our group, she asked if anyone wanted to go again. I stood up right away. Of course I wanted to go again! Flying is fun!

To finish our group, our instructor got to show off in the tube. It didn’t seem that hard to be honest. I think both Jim and I could figure out how to do tricks in no time (but the cost for the time in the tube is ridiculous).

This was so worth it! Really fun! I think our next challenge is the actual skydiving:)

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Playland * BIG

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Do you remember the movie BIG from 1988? A kid visits a fortune teller machine, Zoltar Speaks, and wishes to be an adult and the next morning he is big (=Tom Hanks).

On Saturday last week, we drove to where this is filmed, the Playland Park in Rye, NY. We walked around the amusement park for a little bit to start and then walked out to the beach area where the scene with the Zoltar and Hanks was filmed. The Zoltar machine is actually located inside the park these days and there is an ice cream machine where it was placed in the movie. Of course we all took some pictures there:)

We sat down at a Tiki Bar for a little bit and with all the palm trees around us it felt like we were somewhere completely different than NY. Then we just walked around inside the park for a while, my dad and I got our Zoltar fortunes, we had some snacks, I went on a Dino “ride” that never ended:), we played some games and then we drove home. Zoltar told me to get myself a treat cause I only live once (yolo!), haha, so I bought myself a giant cotton candy. Omg, sooo much sugar, I was hyped for an hour and then I completely crashed..but it was fun, I haven’t had one since I was a kid.

This was a fun little trip. The park isn’t that big and it is made for little kids. Not a place I think we ever gonna visit again, but it was fun to have been there once and we like to visit places from movies:)

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A week with parents

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My parents went back to Sweden late last night. We’ve had a wonderful week together. We’ve been to a concert, spent a day on Manhattan, been eating burgers, went to Playland, drove around looking at huge houses, played with Thor and hung out in the sun. Pretty great week!

I don’t see my family that often so it’s nice to spend this much time together. They stayed in the guest room in our apartment so we’ve really spent every day from morning to night together. I tried to be a good host by serving them breakfast every morning, made sure they had everything they needed, that they got to experience new things, see exciting new stuff and in general tried to make them feel at home in our apartment. Hopefully I did a good job:)

No idea when I will be able to see them again, but I feel like we got a good dose of family time.

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Waiting for candy

Fanny Sura2 August, 20172 August, 2017Leave a comment

Good morning! I am sore today. Not sure if it’s from the yoga class that I took last night or if its from vacuuming the apartment, haha. Or maybe it’s from something completely different that I’ve done. Don’t know. But my arms, neck and upper back is pretty sore.

So, yesterday morning I skipped the yoga class I planned on taking because I was going to skype with my sister. I really have the most amazing sister. She drove to the candy store that I like after she finished work and had me on skype inside the store. Hahaha. She didn’t have any headphones so she had to talk to me, show me all the different candy and wait for me to say yes or no when everybody else could hear it. I’ve never been shopping for candy over the phone before, a phone on the other side of the ocean:) A very good reason to skip yoga, right? 😛 (Swedish candy is very important)

Then, I skype’d one last time with my mom (my parents bags are full of thing for me…mostly tasty treats…so she needed to just do a last check with me). After that I dusted all surfaces and vacuumed the whole first floor of the apartment. Maybe doesn’t sound like much, but I needed to use two different vacuums and it was pretty dusty here. Our home is pretty neat but with me and Thor shedding, it needs to be cleaned more often:)

I was exhausted after that and I tried to come up with a bunch of different excuses to not go to an evening class. But then I got an email from the owner (and the teacher for that class) of the studio and I decided in the very last minute to change clothes and run over there to answer her in person ((I have a workshop coming up and I needed to approve the add for it)). Dragging myself to class even if I was tired was a great decision. It was a mixed class which means a little bit more flow and more challenging. I was suddenly in a very good mood and I walked out with lots of energy. My husband even told me to relax after we came home from the grocery store after the class.

Today I have to do laundry, vacuum the upstairs and prepare the guest room for my parents. I am sooo excited to have my parents here for a few days (or maybe I’m excited about all the Swedish candy haha). To be able to show my family new places or go for new adventures is really rewarding to me. I hope we can find some interesting things to do when they are here.