Long island, new York!
So far the trip has started off great! Chelsy and I met in Chicago and flew to long island, ny. The airport in long island is called slip but we didn’t realize that so when the lady went to put the tag on our checked bag we thought she was asking if we were going to Iceland! Now if we had bought a $60 ticket to Iceland we wouldn’t have been upset, it just would have thrown a little wrench in our plans! So our joke the last couple days has been that we were in Iceland. The weather in NYC is nothing like Iceland though as it’s in the 50’s and 60’s the whole time we’ve been here.
Chelsy and I have a friend, Bert, in long island that we stayed with. He was one of the guys from the tour we were just on. Our first night we took the train into the city and met up and went out with a bunch of his buddies! It was a long late night so we spent half the rest of the day sleeping. We then decided to get out of the city and we headed up to the cabin Bert and his friends and family have been building for two years. It was gorgeous up there. We were up in the catskill mountains and spent the night sitting around the wood stove.
The next day we headed to the local ski mountain and went snowboarding. It was pretty crazy because there was no snow on the mountains anywhere except on the ski hill where they were making snow. It was great weather for boarding though….. Sunny and no wind! On the way back through the city we stopped and had dinner with our friend Rachel Cooper, who we know from the ship. It was great to be able to catch up with her!
This morning we headed out to the beach near long island and also stopped for some traditional new York pizza. Even though we didn’t see much of the city we had a great time! Bert and his family were so nice to us and treated us so well! It was a great start to our trip! We are now headed off to china! It’s a long flight but I can’t wait to be there!!
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