I'm sorry that it's been so long since I updated the blog, life got busy here in Connecticut. Since the last time I updated a lot has happened...all good!
First, Jordan and I had two more visitors, Lindsey and John, and Zoey had one also, Cooper, who came up for a weekend in July. The last time they ventured up here it turned into a 10 hour road trip and they were only actually in Connecticut for not even 24 hours. So, this time they planned their trip around traffic and made it up here in great time so that we had the whole weekend together. Jordan had the weekend off so he was actually able to do all the weekend's activities with us...needless to say he was on cloud nine all weekend since he didn't have to work!
On Saturday we decided to take them down to Fairfield to see the town and go the beach for the day. Fairfield is a town down on the coast, pretty much straight south from where we are now, and is where we are looking to move when my apartment lease is up next year. So we packed ourselves a cooler with snacks, water, and beer (everything you need for a beach trip) and made our way to the beach for the day. The beach was so much fun just relaxing, laying in the sun, and swimming with the jellyfish (I guess it's jellyfish season in the long island sound). After having as much sun as we could handle we took them to our favorite sea food place in Fairfield, Black Rock Oyster Bar, to get them some fresh Connecticut seafood.
Now a little background on the Black Rock Oyster Bar, one weekend I was craving some good seafood for dinner...crab, oysters, lobsters....so Jordan asked his boss, Chase, for some suggestions of good seafood places close to the coast. After throwing out some suggestions we decided to try one of them, which is how we stumbled upon Black Rock. That night we had some of the best oysters we had had in CT so far and some yummy crab legs (pictures below). So when we went this time for lunch with Lindsey and John Black Rock again did not disappoint!
That night after cleaning up we took them to our local bar Perrotties, where everyone is starting to know our name, for a drink or two before dinner. Perrotties is a great little bar that is also a pizza place on the other side. Almost everyone that eats or drinks here is a local and knows the owners. There's a little porch on the front where the owner usually sits and welcomes everyone who comes in. It is such a friendly place and Jordan and I usually frequent it at least a couple times a week. After moving on from Perrotties we headed to dinner at an Italian restaurant called Roma's. The owner of Roma's is a member at Jordan's course which is how we knew about it and we had only heard wonderful things about it. So we pull into the parking lot of a building that has a sign that says Roma's....but all the windows are blacked out and you can't see inside, which makes it look like it's closed down. So the only thing that got us out of the car and into the door was the full parking lot with very nice cars. As we walk in the door everyone sitting at the little bar you walk into stops and stares...like we did not belong there (although we are locals at Perrotties we were not locals at Roma's). We were a little intimidated by most of the people eating in the very small dinning room area that were speaking italian and by the many locals that you could tell knew all the workers. But we held our own and ended up eating one of the best meals that we've had here so far and had a lot of fun.
The next set of visitors that we had was my Mom and Dad who came to visit in Aug and it was my Dad's first time seeing where we live now and my Mom's first time back since she helped move us in. I had so much I wanted to show them but only had a couple of days to fit it into so it turned out to be an action packed weekend.
We tried a couple different restaurants that we hadn't been to yet. Longwood Restaurant was the first that we tried; it is a restaurant in one of the little inns in Woodbury. The Inn is in an old house and is beautifully decorated and restored. We walked into the restaurant, on a Friday night, and it was dead. This restaurant had received reviews from Wine Spectator, Connecticut Magazine, and Zagat so we were expecting it to be booming with business. The wine list was huge and the food was good, but we were a bit put off being that we were the only ones dining there the whole time. It was a very nice restaurant but I don't know if it is one we will be visiting again.
The next new restaurant that we tried was Good News Cafe, this is a Woodbury gem that everyone in town knows about and goes to for a nice dinner. It is in an adorable little yellow house and the inside is decorated like an art gallery. It was very interesting place but the food was fantastic, our waitress was charming, and again the wine list was huge. We ended up having a great dinner and they even had chocolates you could order for dessert to take home with you, so they obviously won me over. I think that this is a place that we would go back to...with parents though...it is a little pricey.
When they were here I also took them on a little Connecticut coastal tour one day, we visited their friends in Rowayton at their beautiful house on the water, drove them through Fairfield to see where we might be moving to, and drove around in New Haven to settle a bet my dad and I had going (New Haven, is it Ghetto or nice? So that you know we tied because there are defiantly ghetto areas but around Yale it is really nice with great restaurants and shopping).
After our coastal tour we met Jordan at his course to go golfing and show my rents the course. We had so much fun golfing and if I remember correctly I think I won (wink wink).
Both weekends with our visitors were so much fun and it was really nice knowing our way around so that we were able to show them around and show off our new home.
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