This weekend was a fun one. We stayed local this weekend since our trip here is coming to an end in 3 weeks. Although I am extreme homesick, I've found plenty of distractions. Most of my homesickness is my friends, and my normal routine in my house. We are currently staying in a corporate housing apartment in downtown Philly which is nice because there is stuff to do. But I don't have a car and theres only so much you can walk to everyday. The first few weeks were easier because everything was new. But now we've been here 2.5 months and I am just ready to get back to my hobbies back home. Scrapbooking, sewing, failed attemps at exercise, cooking with my stuff, cleaning my house, doing laundry in pjs! (we have a washer dryer on the floor and not in the unit so I have to get dressed to do laundry.. Im just not used to it)
With fall approaching, I miss my routine of the fall that I missed out on last year being in Roseville this time last year. I love decorating the house for the holidays. But I guess it will have to wait another year. We're looking into buying a house so that we can expand our family and really settling in somewhere. This would be our first house together which is really exciting!! but with that we have to pack up our house and rent it out asap!
These last two weeks, I've been in a bad mood. Just sad about being gone still. Although I really love traveling and being over here, it's hard to be in this limbo of "we're not here long enough to make it a home" but "we are here for a long time". It's fine until recently. Apprently 2 months is my max in this limbo. Being away from home for so long has been hard. We've really been gone since the begining of June and I think thats really where this is coming from.
But Cole has been extremely understanding and it makes the trip a lot eaiser. We were expecting visitors this month so I thought the month would fly by. But not everyone could make it and we completely understand. Its not a short trip and its not a cheap trip either!!
We are thrilled that Kevin, Jodi and Tany are all coming for a visit though!! Tany for 2 nights and Kevin and Jodi for 4 nights! Once they leave, we only have 2 more weeks!
One thing I am trying to do is blog more. I know I mentioned that before and then didn't. But I had an app on my ipad that will make blogging easier so I am able to do it more!
Also, less people check this than my facebook so I feel able to really say how I feel. I'm starting to not enjoy facebook as much anymore either. I don't know if its my bad mood talking, but there is so much judgement on facebook. I don't have thick skin so it's hard for me. If you post too many pictures, people judge, if you have too many friends... people judge... if you have a long status... people judge. If you have grammatical errors.. judgement..it just doesn't end!
I liked it when I first used it because it wasn't over the top like myspace. Which is why I still like it. But now I use it more for my family and friends who are curious to see what we're up to and see Elyse grow without having to ask me to send them pictures or updates. They can find it themselves! I dont post pictures so that people can think I'm bragging about my life. If they think that, I wish they would just unfriend me. But you can't be an open book because people LOVE to point out what is incorrect or wrong with your comments or status updates. sigh... I realize I'm just being negitive right now.
Okay enough on that, heres pictures from our weekend at the Adventure Aquarium in New Jersey.
Elyse loved looking at the fishes...
Shark teeth!
They had a really cool and big tank there with turtles and sharks!
Look how big that turtle is!!
This is a ray shark, very rare.
Elyse liked the kids section
and of course the boat in the kids section.
The shark tank! We could talk through this tube and sharks swam over it. But we made it quick for two reasons. 1, it reminded me of Jaws 3 i think where Jaws breaks a tank like that and 2, parents and kids alike were shouting at the top of their lungs when a shark went by.(and there were tons of sharks)
I don't have pictrues of it but we also went to the Battleship New Jersey. It is the most decorated battleship in US history. It was really neat! We enjoy going in ship museums, but it a little hard with Elyse trying to carry her and walk through small passageways and such. But it was so big and so much to see!
As far as our travels out here, it is probably at an end. Since we've pretty gone every weekend to see something we're finally burnt out and spending the last 2 weekends here in the Philadelphia area. If we do come back, I do want to go back to NY and DC and Boston. Great places! We didn't see everything we wanted in all the locations but someday we will:)
So some of my next posts will be of some of our past trips that I didn't find the time to blog about at the time! So I will fill in on the Boston trip and NY. Also, our wonderful trip to hawaii!!!!
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