This weekend fulfilled a dream MacKay and I have had since Harlan was born – take them to a Florida State football game. Up here in the northeast college football isn’t a big deal, but down south, everyone is glued to their couch on Saturday to watch their favorite team battle it out.
Living in the city and having kids made it more difficult for us to get down to Tallahassee for a football game, so when MacKay found out they were coming to Syracuse, he immediately bought tickets for the entire family.
The girls were so excited to go as they have been watching FSU play on the television since they were wee ones. They had the tomahawk chop down and were ready to chant along each time we made a good play. I was a bit nervous with taking all three to the game, but all three of them lasted the entire game and we had such a great time (although we immediately went back to our hotel and crashed for the night.)
On Sunday we drove down to Ithaca to check out the city and the Cornell campus. Both the city and campus were absolutely Gorges (an Ithaca joke.) All jokes aside, the landscape is absolutely stunning. We walked around Cornell for a couple of hours with the kids before heading to the botanical garden.
Since moving to the suburbs I have quickly come to love gardening (that is such a suburban thing for me to say.) My mom came up here shortly after we moved and helped me plant flowers in our yard and since then my newfound hobby has taken off. The botanical garden was a real treat because it gave me a chance to look at what flowers I like and can come home and hopefully plant them around our house.
We made a quick stop in downtown Ithaca for brunch before driving back to Connecticut. On our way home I mentioned to MacKay how much I love the northeast this time of year. The fall foliage is absolutely breathtaking. Since moving to this part of the country from Florida, we’ve made it a tradition to take a fall family trip somewhere in the northeast. The trip is quickly becoming one of my favorite trip of the year. It’s the perfect time to see so much of the northeast that I would have never had the chance to otherwise.
I hope you had a great weekend!
