family, flowers, and fairfield county

ok, i feel like i didn't do my time in Connecticut justice by just briefly mentioning it as an attachment or side note to my Guatemalan experiences... i mean, it was really last minute - but we had a phenomenal four days in Fairfield County visiting Matt's family --- Frisbee golf, cousin Mike, nature walks, flower houses, salmon dinners, swinging in the shade, sipping fair trade Rwandan coffee in the sun, probably the best pizza i've ever had and bagels that are hard to beat, burgundy leaves, blooming trees, ocean smells, harbours down the street, good conversation, old family photographs, high school punk band memorabilia, pedicures with Matt's wonderful mother, the biggest houses i've ever seen and precious white wooden church steeples --- i experienced just about as much culture shock in Connecticut as in Latin America --- Fairfield County is about the opposite of "small town Northeast Texas" -

and i love it!

You always here about "Boston in the Fall," but let me tell you

"Connecticut in the Spring" is no less fulfilling.

here are some pics:

Matt's childhood home, built before Texas
ever thought about being a state

Mother's Day dinner at the harbour in Norwalk

nice walk home

walking along shore of Long Island Sound

Botanical Gardens in the Bronx with the fam

I am so thankful for my time in Connecticut - it was perfect and charming

and i'll always treasure it.