Vacation

We got back from our baby-moon vacation a couple weeks ago, and finally got the pictures downloaded from the camera.
We started our vacation with a night and half day in New York City.  We stayed in Mid-town, then walked around quite a bit the next morning before heading for the cruise terminal.

View from our hotel room

Central Park

View from our ship at port

As we're leaving the New York harbor:

watching the scenery from our balcony

Lady Liberty

Boston harbor on the following day.  

David took a lot of pictures of sailboats for Alexander's nursery.  Here's one:

We decided to visit Harvard since we were so close, then we walked the Freedom Trail around Boston that goes to historical places, monuments, etc.

Portland, Maine

After playing a round of miniature golf on the ship, we just walked around the town for a couple hours.

"anchor-duty"

more silliness

fall colors

sunset in the harbor

St. John, New Brunswick

A bit colder the next day in Canada, we bundled up and explored part of the city before going on a boat tour of the Bay of Fundy and the reversing falls.

City Market where I bought some Maple syrup :)

Reversing falls, i.e. river water flowing into ocean: this is the area where the fresh and salt water would try to mix and the water  levels were about even this time of day

A family of seals that live in the bay...I'm a sucker for cute hanimals :)

Fun Day at Sea: lots of activities and eating later...

Halifax, Nova Scotia

We signed up for a Lobsters and Lighthouses tour hosted by a local restaurant.  Unfortunately the water was quite rocky and the smaller boat we were on did NOT help this pregnant lady!  But I refused to let this ruin the day.

Our tour guides teaching us about lobsters 

beautiful fall foliage

where we ended the tour, with a lobster lunch (my nausea caused me to miss out, but David enjoyed it!)

On the last full day of our cruise, we went on a "Behind the Fun" tour of the ship. We couldn't bring the camera or phone with us on the tour, so no more pics, but we got a couple professional pictures taken with the captain and one of the tour group at the pointy part of the ship.  We got to see the crew area, lounge, cafeteria; laundry services, backstage, main galley, engine control room, and the bridge where we met the captain and asked him questions for half an hour.

All in all, we had a lot of fun just being able to be together for a week :)

Birthdays

David and I had our birthdays last week.  We received many calls, emails/texts/facebook posts, and cards from all our family and we wanted to say again, Thank You!!

Dad and Janet took us to Joe's Crab Shack (this is now apparently a tradition we do, since it's the third birthday dinner with parents in a row).  David's happy he gets to work so hard at his meal:

(pardon his goofy photo expression)

Although his birthday is first and we both ordered each others' gifts the same day, mine arrived first:

A K-cup coffee machine, so we don't waste nearly a whole pot of coffee on the weekends, plus I love all the variety of flavored coffees/teas in K-cup form :)

David's gift, I had to order all the way from Surrey in England.  He was home when it arrived and saw the location and was able to narrow down the possible gifts it could be to one of two choices!  He waited until I got home to open it and was very happy and (partially) surprised.

He absolutely loves the British show Top Gear, and somehow got Janet and Dad hooked on it too.  For those of you who don't watch the show, there is a professional driver on the show to test all the cars they discuss, called "The Stig" because he is supposed to be anonymous, and therefore never talks, and always wears a full racing suit with helmet.  

Thanks, Janet for giving me this idea for his gift :) 

Currently, at home, I'm trying to complete a knitted pullover that's taking a lot longer than anticipated.  I wanted to finish it before our cruise which is in 5 DAYS.  eek!  I've accepted the fact I won't be finished with it, but I'm still working on it whenever I can.  So much left to do before Vacay...but then we'll be relaxing!