You know how vacation weeks go by super fast? Nothing drives that point home like a 1SE mash up. Here’s our 5 days in New Hampshire in 1 minute and 14 seconds:

Fast but fun, that’s how we roll.

Hello, hello! I said I’d drop in and blog last week and then . . .  I didn’t. I’d say I’m sorry but the reality is that we were relaxed and happy and blogging felt too much like work. I have a bunch of videos to pull together and some photos to share of food and drink but in the meantime I’m sharing these photos from last Tuesday.

It snowed all day long and it was beautiful. We had planned ahead and laid in supplies (wine and beer) and and the fixings for a pot roast dinner. Around mid afternoon, though, everyone was feeling a little restless so we headed out in the snow to get some fresh air.

It was snowing hard and we had a great time trudging around the neighborhood. And when we came back in the smell of pot roast filled the house and the warm air after the cold air helped Jackie go down for a much needed nap.

It was a perfect day.

You are probably expecting a macro photo, probably even a macro photo of something beach-y. However, there will be no macro photo today. Instead, there will be a mini recap of our family vacation on Cape Cod in the form of a two minute video.

That’s about how fast it went by, too!

Today I will wrap up our April vacation in New York City.

After 3 days of being on the go and up early, when Thursday came we all slept in (I was fighting off a lousy cough) and checked out of the hotel at 11. We had a 3:30 train and literally had one goal for the time we had to kill until the train: PIZZA. We took the subway to what is reportedly the best pizza in the city: John’s of Bleecker.

We were not disappointed! They have an original coal fired oven and the pizza is huge with very thin crust in the middle and big chewy edges – perfect for folding! We weren’t the only tourists there but there were also plenty of locals. The pizza definitely lived up to it’s reputation and I’m so glad we made the effort to go there.

After lunch we walked up to Washington Square and then, worrying about the time, we headed back to the hotel to collect our luggage and go to the train station. The traffic was heavy and we were getting nervous but . . . we needn’t have because once we got to Penn Station we saw that our train had a 90 minute delay. That delay kept getting longer and longer and, believe it or not after all that time we almost missed the train because we went down the wrong escalator, but we finally got on and got seats in the quiet car.

Did I mention I was fighting off a cough? So yeah, there’s me, hacking away and making a fair amount of noise while doing so, and getting glaring looks from everyone around me. I’m pretty sure they all thought I was Typhoid Mary. Good times.

All kidding aside, this trip was nothing but fun! It was great to have all that time for exploring the city, going to shows, eating fabulous food and drinking plenty of wine with Hannah and Dale.

I’m already plotting a return!