Poconos Weekend

We were invited to a surprise birthday weekend getaway with friends to a house in the Pocono mountains in Pennsylvania. It boasted eight bedrooms, an indoor hot tub, pool table and basketball hoop. It was the perfect party house and just 2.5 hours from the city made for a perfect weekend getaway. There were 18 adults and 11 kids total - Austin and I were the only ones without kids. We were flattered to be included with the group.

We went on walks, hot tubbed, looked at the changing leaves, went to a pumpkin patch/Christmas tree farm, cooked and ate lots of good food, played Psychiatrist and had a great time. It's a treat to have so many wonderful friends in the city - all of us about the same age, about the same stage in life and fun to be with.

Highlights:

*For Austin: playing and winning 18 holes of golf with his new clubs

*For me: Navigating us to the house without getting lost

*Sonic's coconut cream pie shake

*Eating funnel cake and fried Oreos at the pumpkin patch

*No bear problems

*Playing Horse in the rain

*A few intense and hilarious rounds of Pschiatrist

Lowlight:

-Austin being told he was too big to go on the pony ride at the Christmas tree farm

-Austin puking up his chili dinner after eating too much

-Me having a few good turns during a couple-to-couple pool game and then losing the game for us

 

 

Birthday Roadtrip

In the spirit of celebrating my birthday for a whole week, we rented a car and decided to take a day trip out of the city on Saturday. We drove up Palisades parkway to New York's Bear Mountain and explored a few trails up there and then spent the rest of the day heading wherever the wind blew us.

Highlights

*Finding tacos and horchata in Newburg (a sad little town in the Hudson River valley).

*Taking my first sip of Diet Coke in 13 days.

*Realized I was craving seltzer water with lime - what??

*Driving in a car and stopping for treats at the gas station.

*Getting into a verbal altercation with la jefe at Sam's Lookout after letting ourselves into the park - and losing.

*Subsequently finding a pretty lookout and deciding we wouldn't let her ruin our trip.

*Taking lots of pictures of my #malemodel husband.

*Realizing all our photos taken with the tripod are blurry.

*Austin wearing his 10 year old Eagle High School sweatshirt that I tease him about.

*Arriving 3 minutes after Poughkeepsie's pedestrian bridge closed, then ending up at a delicious local creamery after both Dairy Queen and Rita's were closed.

*Not caring that things were closed and photos were blurry because all we wanted was a day out of the city to enjoy spending time with each other.

 Check out this dream boat: