What We Got Up To In January 2019

We started off January by ringing in the New Year with Kim’s family, we went for Japanese food first and then back to Kim’s Uncle’s house who had a house party. Americans like to watch a ball slide down a pole in Times Square in New York for New Years Eve so that’s what we counted down to on TV.

We took a day trip to Amherst, Massachusetts and visited the hot tub spa.

We’ve still been visiting the cat shelter to help out that’s down the street from us, we’re getting some sweet favourites like this friendly little guy.

We took a trip to the Spa at Norwich Inn one weekend and had a lovely room with a fireplace.

I discovered Kim has never lit a match before… I didn’t know anyone could be bad at striking a match but now I know how talented I really am.

We’d been to the Spa at Norwich Inn before so we knew the drill, we had afternoon tea and scones.

Wine, cheese…and lots of spa time.

Kim has a very nice friend who is also called Kim and she and her husband, Cam, live in Cape Cod where we drove for their baby shower. The weather was not co-operative but it was still the shortest drive we’ve had to Cape Cod because there was no traffic!

Would you just look at these biscuits?

Our Saturdays have been occupied with foster/adoption classes in the mornings and we just finished our second class. The other people in the class are really friendly and the classes are fairly positive so far so it’s going well – lots of paperwork! So it was only right to treat ourselves after class today. We took a trip to a tea shop in Mystic.

We had a Harry Potter themed afternoon tea, Kim was in heaven.

We tried to walk at least one of the cakes off around the Lebanon Green which I’d driven past a lot but hadn’t actually had a chance to look round before, the houses are all old (for America at least) and there was a lot of revolutionary war history there.

January feels like it’s flown by!

Back in Connecticut

So after the state fair it was back to CT for a day or two so. Random thing that’s weird about America point one – in Connecticut they call off licences ‘package stores’.

Look what came as a side to my breakfast omelette at IHOP one morning; pancakes. As a side. I could not finish them as much as I wanted to.

Random thing that’s weird about America point two – all toilet seats have a chunk missing… and no one seemed to know why… mysterious. And yes I made you this photo montage of toilets, isn’t it lovely?

Not surprisingly I am no better at mini golf across the pond then I am here. Boo.

It was Kim’s birthday, I co-made this funfetti cake, isn’t it beeeeaaautiful?

Random thing that’s weird about America point two – Americans are weird about religion… This was on TV when I switched it on in the New York Hotel whilst I got ready. It was a man promising that god would forgive people’s sins if they paid him $1,000. No mention of where the money went or what it was used for. So weird.

I found this on a table in a coffee shop.

This came through Kim’s mailbox.

And this was in the mall.

Isn’t that just so intrusive? Like… I don’t want to join your religion, stop bugging me. It’s so in your face.

Out And About in Connecticut

So I’ve been visiting my friend Kim who lives in Connecticut and before Boston (more on that later) we spent some time around CT. It’s pretty here, look at the university Kim went to… makes my university look like a bag of crap… concrete crap.

I’ve enjoyed doing more mundane tasks like grocery shopping, taking time to examine all the weird things I find, do you know they don’t sell squash? Just this nasty stuff you squirt in the water (don’t even bother trying it, it’s so gross). I found a bottle of Ribena in the foreign food section. For real, next to chocolate digestives that WEREN’T McVities. Disgusting.

We went bowling, where they DON’T take your shoes… is this because Americans, unlike the English don’t want to steal bowling alley shoes? Who knows.

And we won Spongebob themed temporary tattoos at the arcade.

I went to the mall one day whilst Kim was at work. You guys, the mall is full of old people that meet up, not to go shopping, but to power walk round the mall. Seriously, they didn’t go into any shops, they just were walking round the mall in twos and threes. Despite being surrounded by beautiful countryside. It’s weird.

Coming up… my trip to Boston.