on my way home

i've already been home now for about two weeks and, let me just say, it feels good! i LOVE waking up in the morning and eating brekkie and spending time with God. it's so peaceful! man, i feel like these seasons in life are few and far between. so i am really, really, reeeeally relishing it before, ya know, reality hits. but until then, my friends, i shall show you some pics! ;)

SO i'd forgotten how beautiful upstate new york could be, until i came to mcgill. airfare can be pricy to travel back and forth from new jersey to montreal, so oftentimes, i take the train! (Adirondack 68 crew, whaddup.) i pretty much consider myself a train veteran now, on account of having taken it so many times! anyways, if you live in montreal and are wanting to take a trip down to new york, i suggest taking the train. it is about $170 dollars roundtrip (MTL-NYP). that being said, it does take 11 hours...oui, eleven. however, these are some of the examples of the views:

these were taken during my february trip home for reading week. i had exams just following break, so i was trying to study. unfortunately, Nietzsche had nothing on the killer views right outside my window. (he is also just quite pessimistic which didn't help the situation.)

my truly awesome parents (you guys are pretty cool, i must admit!) met me at Penn Station and took me out to a delicious dinner. and by them taking me, i mean to say that i was a dictator and dragged us all to  a wine and cheese bar that i had heard about. hehe. 

but it turns out we had a really fun time, just mes parents et moi :) firstly, because the restaurant wasn't open yet when we initially got there (ahaha we were such keeners!) so we ducked in a random irish pub and, well, that's pretty much always an interesting time. after that, we arrived at the adorable albeit tiny little restaurant and ordered a custom cheese plate and two sides: oven-baked, three-cheese macaroni (hey, it was a cheese bar, to be fair) and mini braised lamb skewers. both were delectable. also, i must tell you that the dark brown crackers next to the fluffy white mascarpone cheese pictured below are, indeed, homemade chocolate graham crackers. (!!!) should i become best friends with the owners? i believe so. 

 

it doesn't look like much food, but when you are munching and talking and trying to guess each little flavor in every bit of cheese or bread, it is actually quite filling. the name of the restaurant escapes me now, but i will search for it! it was definitely worth a return visit.

and this was just the start of reading week. the following day, my roommate from montreal arrived and we had some little adventures of our own! more pics and stories to come :)

à la prochaine semaine! 

coco xx