Montag, 6. April 2009

... sitting in my empty room

at least it's way emptier that a couple of hours ago as I drove Verena to the airport this evening. The three weeks flew by like a couple of days... Boston didn't make it very hard for her to say goodbye as it was pouring all day today. 
The last weeks with her were eventful and a lot of fun. When she got here on Monday three weeks ago (together with my friends Lars, Arne, and Hanna) they had a couple of days to explore Boston and I had time to show them around as it was my spring break week. We didn't stay in Boston for very long though and drove down to NYC on Thursday to spend a wonderful weekend in Brooklyn with my friends Ari and Adam to celebrate Ari's birthday. On our way down there we passed at the submarine museum in New London, CT to see the Nautilus, the first submarine that dove all the way under the north polar ice cap and the north pole. It is a museum ship and visitors can actually go onboard and walk around, pretty awesome. 
NYC was a lot of fun as always. Staying with the best people in one of the best cities can't be anything but fun! We did some touristy things like the MOMA, the Staten Island ferry, the Brooklyn Museum but also spend a decent amount of time visiting the culinary sights around the city. Foodwise the highlight for me anyways was Foodswings in Williamsburg, vegan fast food deluxe. 


Tourists, Staten Island
hmmm food, Foodswings Williamsburg


Verena and me drove back to Boston Monday morning and I had to get back to school routine, as much as that was possible at that time with a visitor here that I wanted to spend as much time with as I possibly could. I got the most important things done but will have to start working harder again now that she's gone again. Well the next weekend we spent in and around Boston with a day trip to Newport and Providence, RI where we enjoyed nice weather and a spectacular coastline. 

Seashore, Newport


After another week school and the culinary attractions of Boston (vegan brunch, Grasshopper, ...) we took the car all the way up to Montreal for the weekend to celebrate the wedding of my friends Megan & Alex that got married this weekend and threw a big party with an amazing 80s dance action... the taste of the Montreal kids is right up my alley I have to say!! Apart from all the rain in Montreal this weekend we got a very nice first impression of the city and thanks to the hospitality of my friends we stayed really close to the interesting spots in town. 

Bride & groom, Montreal


Party hard! Montreal


Got back to Boston last night kind of exhausted and spent the day today in bed, packing, running some last errands and meeting with Daniel and Jan who are in town also for some dinner... Now she's gone and I after weeks and weeks of laziness am updating my blog and listening to some live recordings of my band from a show in Berlin over a year ago... actually I am just listening to the final "anstrafen" that my friend Thomas did to the microphone requesting some additional songs... hilarious! Haha!
In the next couple of days I am going to have some more visitors here as my friends Lars, Arne, and Hanna are coming back to Boston after touring the East Coast, before they fly out of Boston next week so I won't be lonely ; ) So long, Johanssen



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