EDIT: Now I am sitting in the kitchen waiting for water boil to make coffee, and am eating kettle chips with Jeff. Rowan and Adam are off on a park date, being all cute and probably singing Mogli songs (I joke) and being griping old grandmas...
New Haven is really beautiful. I'm having a wonderful time and everyone seems so nice. So far it's been a lot of hanging out and meeting new people. On our first day in states, we ended up getting into New York at around 9 am. Rowan took us on the wrong subway train to Grand Central, so we ended up taking a nice stroll in downtown New York from where the bus let us off to Grand Central Station (where you catch the commuter train to New Haven). When we got there, we were greeted by Adam and Jeffrey at the train station. Adam then took us back to his house and fed us some sourdough pancakes with Earth Balance and maple syrup. Then, we went back to the Castle and met Camille, Marty, Sarah K, and Kat Turner. After Adam got off of work, we drank beers and explored an abandoned armory. I threatened to bring a copy of "Expect Resistance," and talk about how, in the abandoned building, we were liberating our desires... Obviously, I should have "expected resistance" (har har) to this idea.
Anyway, here are some photos from Rowan's blog (because Adam was using my camera to take videos).
On Tuesday, Jeffrey and I went to a potluck birthday party at his friend, Dan's house. We ate banana cake, vegan pizza, and oat groats and beets. Jeffrey also ended up winning at Settler's of Catan.
Wednesday, we went to Adam's band's klezmer concert and yanked a bottle of wine from the Yale funding, hung out at Adam's house and played old timey music, and drank vegan hot chocolate (with vegan marshmellows).
Thursday, I hung out, drank tea with Camille and had really good conversations about POC/QPOC/WOC stuff. We went to Claire's to see the Tlaxcala photo exhibit, ate mini cakes, sipped homemade sangria, and listened to music. Adam then lured us to his home and fed us some split pea soup and then we watched a couple episodes of Boondocks.
Friday, we went to Miya's with Jim, Camille, Adam, and Rowan. We ended up waiting over half an hour to get a table because this group of ugly sweater wearing women had already paid their bills, and decided to hang out for over twenty minutes while folks were sitting outside in the cold for a table... But, the sushi was really fresh and really cheap (2.50$ for around 8 rolls and 1.00$ pumpkin miso soups). Rowan ended up getting a set of free rolls because they messed up her order. Then, we went to Adam's house and watched the Room (but I ended up falling asleep for the last half of it :()
New Haven was really beautiful yesterday because it snowed, but today the temperature rose to over six degrees (celcius) so everything melted. But, it looked like fall weather so Adam, Rowan and I walked downtown and looked at the Yale Art Gallery. This has been the sum of my trip (so far) but I will update with more pictures later. I realize my limitations in being a travel blogger person... More to come.
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