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In Chicago, Swedish in America, USA

Our Thanksgiving 2017

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Rizzo, J’s moms new puppy. Super cute little guy

Our trip to Chicago for the Thanksgiving weekend was very short. But we had a great time. The food on Thanksgiving Day was actually fantastic. We had a great time with J’s stepdads side of the family. Half of the people that was supposed to come didn’t make it but we were still a lot of people at the house.
We spent most of Friday at J’s grandparents house. Relaxed and nice. We were watching football, ate yummy food and had a good time together. In the evening we went to see our friends, Bob and Sarah. They had a fun game that we played and we laughed a lot. 
On Saturday, we had to drive to the airport around noon and at 6pm we were back in Stamford (the flight was slightly delayed). Thor was with our other neighbor who had picked him up from the first sitter, so he seemed to have had an awesome Thanksgiving weekend as well. 

Overall, this years celebration was very relaxed, we had a great time and we got to spend time with a bunch of people. Sometimes Thanksgivings or Christmas’s can seem rushed and messy, but even if this was one of the shortest trips we’ve done, it felt like we got enough time with everyone. 

J just got home from a work dinner and I’m waiting to watch the VS Fashion Show. It starts at 10 and I’m already super tired, so it’s gonna be a long night, hahah. 

In Travel

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Good morning! We arrived in Chicago early this morning. Got up at 4:30am and left for the airport by 5. We flew out from the small airport in White Plains this time. When we got to the airport the line to check in was really long. Thank G that we have TSA pre-check and could walk right in, otherwise we would maybe have missed our flight. During our flight I watched the sunrise the whole way. Oh, it was so beautiful. It almost looked fake. I couldn’t take my eyes off the pink and orange sky.
We arrived 30 min early so that was nice. After we dropped off our bags at J’s moms house, we went for a little breakfast. I chose a sweet start of the day, banana chocolate chip french toast, yummy!

In a few minutes, I’m gonna get ready for our Thanksgiving celebration.
I hope you’ll have a wonderful day!

In Stamford, USA

Stamford Thanksgiving Parade

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Hello readers! How are you? Did you have an awesome weekend?

Our weekend was full of a little bit of everything. On Friday night we went to see the new Thor movie. I’ve only seen the first one and that sucked, but this one was actually good. Our Saturday started with brunch at the Darien Diner and then shopping at Walmart. Our mission was to find a Christmas tree. Walmart didn’t have any good ones but next door at Home Depot we found one that we liked. Neither Jim or I want a real tree cause they are messy, smelly and I prefer to pay for a tree once and reuse it rather than buy a new one every year. I can’t wait til we can put our Christmas stuff up after Thanksgiving. The rest of our Saturday wasn’t too exciting. I cleaned out our storage and made space for the new tree. I think November is a perfect time to declutter your home. 

On Sunday, we took Thor for a walk to downtown Stamford to watch the Thanksgiving Parade. T always gets too excited and nervous around a lot of people (over stimulation) and barks your ears off but Jim insist on bringing him with. I didn’t get to see or enjoy the first half of the parade cause I had to calm T down. Eventually I just gave the leash to J and ignored T. My ears had got enough. By this time it had got emptied out in the crowds too cause the wind was so strong and cold and kids needed to go home. We were a little disappointed in the balloons. Maybe it was because of the wind that caused a lot of the balloons to face down. Not really exciting at all, but at least I got to experience it for the first time (cause I would never go to the Macy’s one on Manhattan). We went for a late lunch (without Thor), bought a star for the x-mas tree top at Target and then we just hung out at home. 

In Swedish in America, USA

My first Trick or Treat, and nobody came:(

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I have lived in America for almost 7 years and never experienced Trick or Treat. In our old neighborhood there was lots of kids (we also lived next to a school) and every year they had a list you could sign up on and kids would follow a map to find the doors for Trick or Treat. We never signed up, we either weren’t home or didn’t have time. This year we decided we wanted to be a part of it. We bought candy and grabbed a paper downstairs to hang on the door. We don’t have any Halloween decorations really so I printed out some things to put on the door and then placed our pumpkins and scull candle holders outside the door. Thor had his monster costume on, Jim put his wizard Mickey hat on and I had my Minnie ears and painted a mouse nose.

When it was 6pm, I was so excited! There aren’t really any kids living in this building, there are like 3-5 kids, but I was hoping to at least have one child coming. Nobody came:( So disappointed. I was all worked up about it, and then nothing. We saw several apartments who had pumpkin buckets with candy out in the hallway, and that’s what we ended up doing too after waiting for two hours. 

So now we have a lot of candy at home. It’s gonna be hard to stay away from it. Self-control…no, I don’t have much of that when it comes to candy, haha.

Speaking of our old neighborhood (Battery Park City), it’s horrible what happened yesterday. Thor and I walked there all the time. I’m glad we don’t live there now. My friend told me she had been there 10 minutes before it happened, I’m happy she’s ok. My thoughts goes out to everyone there♥

In New York

Storm King Art Center

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It’s about an hour drive from our apartment in Stamford to the southeast part of Cornwall, NY, by Hudson River and Storm King Art Center. We drove on the highway there and the more scenic roads home. When we came there, 20 minutes after they had opened, one parking lot was already full they said but it’s a big park so we didn’t notice it too much to begin with. 

When we had parked, we walked to the museum building. They had some art, photographs and a gift shop inside but nothing special. And then our hike around the park began. There are sculptures far apart from each other so you kinda have to decide if you want to really see it or continue more on a “path”. On their website they say that you should dedicate about two hours to see it properly, and we spent about that time there and I think we got to see a good portion of the art.

After about half of our walk around the park, it had started to fill up with people. Large groups of people had set up picnic, some biked around, some took the little tram, lots of families brought their babies in strollers and so on. Even if it’s a big park, it somehow eventually felt crowded. I’m so happy we came early. When we drove out from the park, there was a long line all the way out on the highway to get in. Those people probably had to wait at least an hour, maybe even two to get in. It’s not worth that. 

It was a cute park and I’m glad we went there. It was an absolute perfect day too. A little cold in the morning and then sunny and super sweaty weather. Neither J or I really enjoy that kind of art though. Art pieces that you can create in kinder garden isn’t really my cup of tea, but others enjoy it and I guess since they are in that huge scale it can be kinda cool. Storm King park is bigger than just the art center and we would love to go there to explore and then take Thor with us (you can’t bring your dog to the art center). The art center is closed during the winter, but you can visit the actual park all year around. And it’s a beautiful drive by Hudson River.