Video from our trip to Jacksonville, Florida.
I would have liked to show you more, but I couldn’t film too much of the houses or the communities because that kinda felt awkward, but you’ll see a little at least of what we were up to 🙂
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February 23, 2020
At our hotel
We saw many interesting houses along the coast
Castillo de San Marcos
Calamari, fried avocado and tuna tostada
Morning meeting
Warm mini donuts, Jim got an ice coffee and I got a cappuccino
From left: 1) espresso 2) sea salt caramel popcorn 3) coffee cake 4) maple bacon
We ended up going to the airport quite early,
so it was nice that there was a sky lounge open where we could enjoy unlimited food and drinks:)
NYC at night seen from the plane, always a beautiful sight
February 16, 2020
Three-day-weekend. Not a lot of working for my hubby these days:) We came back from Florida on Tuesday night and he’s off tomorrow (it’s President’s Day here in America).
Our trip to Florida was successful. We got to explore downtown Jacksonville, visit many different communities in St Johns, meet with home builders and spend some time on the beach. The weather was quite “cold” the first two days, but on Monday and Tuesday I walked around in shorts. Jacksonville was also filled with palm trees which made my heart happy. Everywhere you looked, everywhere you drove, there where lots of palmies♥ Streets where wide and nice to drive on – unlike NY and CT where you are afraid of getting a flat tire no matter where you drive. We both liked Jacksonville. If we gonna move there or not, who knows. This was just a research trip. We have a few other cities we want to explore before we can make a decision:)
Downtown Jacksonville had a nice skyline and….nothing going on. Maybe we walked the wrong streets, I don’t know, but on a Saturday afternoon there was nothing happening, noone out. Later on we left the downtown area, walked along the river and into another area that seems to be the Brooklyn of Jax, very hipster with lots of bars and people. We found somewhere to eat and went back to the hotel relatively early since we had a meeting in the morning. I feel like we got to see what the city had to offer which was the whole purpose:)
We started our day in Florida with a small bite and drinks at our hotel.
In the back you see what’s apparently a famous golf course where they have big tournaments
(I’m not a golfer so I didn’t actually care hahah)
We took a taxi to the south part of the river and got a coffee at Southern Grounds
and then we went for a long walk to the river
The view of downtown, seen from south of the river
Beautiful sunset, very colorful
Full moon, called Snow Moon. It was so big that night, Feb 8th
November 29, 2019
I hope all you Americans had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday. We sure did. We made absolute no plans this year other than cook a ourselves a nice meal.
We started the day with watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade on TV where my friend Jessica (one of the dancers in Hastdans pa Hovdala) was the P in Parade in the very beginning, how fun! Before we started cooking, I was skyping with my sister for awhile. It’s getting closer and closer to her due date now, exciting! Jim prepared and started cooking the turkey around noon. This year we went with a smaller one, “only” 5 lbs haha. I made mashed potatoes, cooked some carrots and peas, prepped cranberry and biscuits, J made gravy and stuffing and we were eating around 2:30. Everything turned out absolutely amazing.
After all that food, we sat down to watch the Chicago Bears win for once, the boys took a nap and then we continued to watch football mixed with other Christmas related stuff on other channels. And we also ate pumpkin pie of course:)
Super relaxed Thanksgiving and it was perfect. That’s what this holiday is about; do nothing, be grateful for everything we’ve got and spend time with each other….and watch football haha.
J is working from home today, aka not doing a whole lot cause nothing is going on the Friday after Thanksgiving. In the afternoon we are driving over to Danielas. We haven’t seen them in awhile due to everything that has happened lately. I’m sure baby George has grown a lot since last time I saw him.
We decided to give Thor a plate this year. He is normally not allowed to eat human food because of his sensitive stomach, but on Thanksgiving and Christmas we feel that it is ok to give him some.
Turkey day is his favorite day all year:)
But look at that sad plate hahha, like mini mouse bites, but he enjoyed it
We stared eating pumpkin pie on Tuesday already. J went to pick it up then in order to avoid big crowds and to be sure he really got one this year. It’s delicious
October 21, 2019
My husbands surprise was to explore the world in a HOT AIR BALLOON! We had such a wonderful Saturday morning, the best surprise! Perfect day for this kind of adventure, he could not have picked a better day, we were so lucky with the weather (it rained yesterday).
I woke up from a dream around 3 am and could not fall back to sleep, so I was pretty tired, but my excitement over my surprise helped me stay awake:) The alarm went off at 4:30, I jumped into the shower, got ready, Jim took Thor out and then showered. We were out the door at 5:15. It took us about 1 hour 15 minutes to drive to location (somewhere near the Hudson Valley, New York). It was so dark outside, we realized that we are not used to drive in the dark like that. We got to this big field. Some young guy had parked there and he came up to our car asking if we were excited…well…I still didn’t know what we were going to do. More cars pulled up, we stayed warm inside the car. I kept looking out my window at the big field an the sunrise. And then after awhile I looked out J’s side and wow, there was a huge balloon being blown up next to us, hahaha. I kinda figured it was that but since J had told me to not bring a camera I wasn’t sure.
Three older couples were the first group to go up while we had to stay on ground. This balloon company goes up twice a day on weekends when weather allows. The young guy (the assistant) said that it’s better to be the second group to go up and I agree. Not only had the sun come up then and you can see all the colorful trees, but we got to see the balloon go up, chase it around, help the first group to get out and jump in, and then see them pack it all up in the end. The full experience:)
The first group was up for about an hour and we were in the young guys car driving to areas that we saw the balloon. The balloon pilot sent a location pin and we drove there. They had landed in some industrial area (the pilot has no control over where the balloon will take you, just up or down, so they end up in peoples backyards all the time). We had to help the balloon stay down in order for the first group to climb out, and then we started to climb in while the other group tried to hold us down, but the balloon kinda started to take off a bit too early and we ended up flying right into the barn we were next to (J said that a shingle of the house had come off..oops). And then quite quickly we were up in the air pretty high. 1200 feet start off with.
Wow! This was amazing! Going up and down over the fields and over big houses and barns. At one point we went up to 1500 feet and we could actually see top of the buildings on Manhattan. So peaceful. Quiet. I filmed and took pictures of course, but I also made sure to just enjoy the view and feel the fresh air.
In the end the basket was touching trees and then whoops, we went right through a tree hahaha. And then came the landing. We all bent our knees and held on. We hit the ground, up again, bounce. The second bounce I hit my knee in the basket so hard I thought I broke my leg but once we were out standing on ground it wasn’t that bad. Getting out was an adventure itself haha. The men in our group got out and tried to first move the balloon to a better place and then hold it in order for us to get out, but we ended up tipping over. I was in the tipping top (J and I was in the “back”) and I had to just hold on hahah, pretty funny view I’m told but J wasn’t fast enough to take a picture.
They fold everything up, put it on the wagon behind the car and we drove off. We drove by the farmer who owned the land and he did not look happy that we had been trespassing. The pilot and the assistant had a few stories of when they have been landing on questionable places, for example where they have had a shotgun in their face and been told to get out of their land. But, that’s America for ya 😛
We were about 20 minutes away from where our cars were parked. We said goodbye and then J and I drove to a diner for breakfast. It was about 10am at this point so we were really hungry. Then 1.5 hour drive back home. The lobby people had been watching Thor so we went to pick him up and then all three of us snuggled ourselves under blankets in bed and took a two hour nap. We were so tired!
What beautiful day! And what an experience! I really have the best husband♥
