So a major Ice Storm hit the New England area a few weeks ago and left the state in a state of emergency. My parents were without power for almost 2 weeks and their yard and road almost unrecognizable. It was a disaster. We luckily missed the ice and just got mostly rain but a few miles in any direction and it was like night and day. The storm was very particular to where it hit. Anyways the day after the storm we were heading down to NYC and were on the Taconic Parkway and it was one of the mose beautiful sites I have ever seen. My mouth was dropped in awe for about the whole ride. It was as if we were living in a glass world or some surreal place. The sun was shining and everything and I mean everything was covered in ice. We got detoured and rerouted about a million times because of the fallen trees and powerlines but it was so beautiful we didn’t care. I wish we had stopped the car to take better pictures- these are from in the car…

So the other weekend we went into NYC and spend the weekend in Long Island visiting some friends. Kev’s high school friend lives out there right now with his fiance. We went out to visit them and spend a great night in the city. We went to the famous jazz club Birdland to see Charlie parker play, then walked around the city and ended up at this great tapas bar in the village for some late night snacks and some great sangria. On sunday we got to meet up with Anthony and Laura before we left for home. It was nice to be able to see them 2 weekends in a row.

We got our first snow storm the other week followed by our second 2 days later. Our driveway feels quite long when we have to shovel the whole thing. It was nice to have so much snow though!!!