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In Connecticut

Our Easter weekend

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More weather news from Stamford. Snow. Yup, we have snow again and it’s not just a little either, it’s several inches. Jim is working from home. This weekend was so nice weather-wise too. I even burned the top of my forehead and my chest when we sat on our terrace in just t-shirts. I’m glad we have that weekend in Florida coming up this month:)

Speaking of this weekend. We had three awesome days! On Friday, we left Thor with our neighbor and then drove down to New Jersey to visit Emma, Levy and Cristian. They bought a house almost a year ago and we thought it was time to go see it. Such a cute house and it seems perfect for them. We had a great time playing with Levy (who’s already 3!) and catching up with E and C. After an awesome dinner, we drove back home. It took about 1.5 hour, so not too bad.
On Saturday morning, we took Thor in the car and drove to Tod’s Point Beach in Old Greenwich. We knew that it was the last day of the year that dogs are aloud in the park (which seems odd, there is lots of walks away from the beaches where dogs could join, but I guess they are not allowed in the whole park during summer months). Everybody else brought their dogs too. We came early which was a good thing cause by the time we left it started to be crowded on the parking lots. It was a pretty nice beach, and when you walk more to the tip you can see the skyline of Manhattan, NYC. Thor got to walk a little on a beach once last year, but this time he got to really explore and also walk up to the ocean water. He thought he was supposed to drink the water haha. He doesn’t like to be wet or dirty so he didn’t actually go in. All the other dogs were off leash playing out in the water though.
We bought coffee in a drive thru and sat on our terrace for awhile to eat our breakfast. Went to the gym for an hour and then to a happy hour at a fish restaurant near us. Spent the afternoon out on our terrace again before the basketball started on tv.
Sunday was pretty relaxed. Brunch next door, grocery shopping, dancing in the sun in a park (video will be posted on Wednesday) and a pork chop dinner at home. Not too bad for Easter. 

And today we woke up from the sound of snow plows. I had no idea we gonna get this much snow. Spring one day, winter the next. Our world is upside down. 

Make sure to follow Thor on instagram: @athorablenyc

In Travel

Party in the subbies of Chicago

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We had a very windy storm here in Connecticut on Friday. Thor woke me up at 1:30 am the night to Saturday by barking at the wind. Our terrace is above our bedroom and when there is a strong wind you can hear the furniture wobble a bit and T thinks it’s intruders. I couldn’t fall back to sleep after that, and then we had to get up by 3:30 to get ready. Guess if I was tired?
Hundreds of flights were cancelled the night before because of the storm, but by the time we were leaving (flight was at 6:15am) it was all fine. We made it to a sunny Chicago a bit early. We had all day to hang out before we had to get ready for Sandy’s birthday party. Both my husband and I took a nap after breakfast. After lunch, Jim, his stepdad and I sat outside in the sun for awhile. A real spring day, so lovely!
We got ready and drove to Frankfurt. The party was at a popular Mexican restaurant, Fat Rosie’s. We had tables in the back. We had so much fun. I have never heard Jim’s mom laugh that much, she seemed to have had a great time. 
When everybody had left, Jim and I stayed. Bob, Sarah and their friend Mike joined us after a few minutes and the five of us had a really fun evening going from bar to bar. We were back at the house by 1:30 am which is probably the latest we’ve been out since last time we saw Bob and Sarah in June:) So, I was awake for 24 hours and I slept like a rock!
We didn’t do anything on Sunday. We were all tired and around 2pm we left for lunch before we had to go to the airport. We had a fun and quick trip to Chicago. It was nice to be able to celebrate my mother-in-laws 60th birthday:)
A video from our weekend will come up tomorrow, Wednesday.

In Hawaii, Kauai

Glass Beach

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Before our trip to Kauai, I searched online for special things not to miss on our vacation. In a way I don’t like to look too much into things, cause I like to find and explore on my own and looking at pictures or hearing peoples stories kinda ruins that a bit. But, I also don’t want to miss something really cool, so I listen to the stories and I do some research:) 
One thing that I had read about was the “Glass Beach in Hanapepe“. I saw a few pictures of it and it looked so cool so we went to find it. I had read somewhere that it was located by the Salt Pond Park, but it’s actually more hidden behind an industrial area more east of the Salt Pond. There are no signs to this beach and guide books doesn’t mention it. On the way back from Polihale State Park, I searched around online and eventually found it, typed it in on google maps that guided us to the location. 
For some reason I thought it was going to be bigger pieces of glass, but they were tiny. The whole beach is formed by pieces of old glass bottles. It looks like a rocky beach but when you take a closer look at the “sand/rocks” it is clear, green, brown, yellow and blue glass pieces. Very cool to look at up close, less impressive first impression. I’m still very happy that I got to see this.