A long awaited trip delayed from Covid finally happened. The hilarious comedian Fortune Feimster was playing at the College Music Hall in New Haven- or was supposed to play March 2020- then it was moved to May 2021- then it was eventually postponed to November 2021. We booked a hotel for a couple of nights and hit up a couple breweries along the coast on the way down, first Thimble Island, then Stony Creek. We checked into the New Haven Hotel and got dressed to walk to the College City Music Hall for the show. Fortune was so hilarious, it was difficult to sip my beer without laughing. We called it an early night and we went back to the hotel. The next day was a nice bright crisp fall day and the leaves were in full bursting colors. We took the opportunity to sleep in because we are usually woken up in the early hours of the morning by our two cats. (the two of them were safely at home being fed by their fancy automatic feeder). After walking through the brick-paved streets outside of Yale, we decided to grab lunch at one of New Haven's claims to fame- the first burger-at Louis' Lunch. The little red building is cozy and cramped- the inside surrounded by wooden booths that are carved up by patrons going back decades. The burger is cooked in a unique vertical grill that has been in the building since the 1800's- a beautiful flavorful patty served on two slices of white toast slathered with cheese, with an onion and tomato on top- this is the only way the burger is made. The men behind the counter shout orders and friendly greetings, making you feel as if you're a local. After stuffing ourselves with the delicious burger, chips and potato salad, we walked off the pounds by heading towards East Rock Park. After a pit stop at the Yale British Art Museum/gallery we made our way through the Yale Campus to where the edge of East Rock Park was. We hadn't planned on climbing the ginormous red rock that we saw towering in the distance, but each step we made towards it, we kept saying "well- just a little further will be fine". The view was totally worth the climb. On the way back down we "rested" at East Rock Brewery where we enjoyed a flight and some nice conversations with the local bartenders. Our original plan to go to the Yale Art Gallery was thwarted by a bomb threat that caused the entire campus to be evacuated (nothing more was heard in the news, so I am assuming it was just a false alarm) so we made our way a little bit early to New Haven's second claim to food fame- the pizza! Apparently the two rival pizza places to try are Sally's and Frank Pepe's, and many people try both to compare, but after asking the bartender at East Rock which place she preferred, she sold us on Sally's. The place had a tent set up in the parking lot with picnic tables and all of the food was cooked inside. It definitely met our expectations! We ordered enough so we could bring home leftovers. Our legs were tired from climbing mini-mountain, so once again we decided to call it an early night. On the way home the next day, we stopped at Lighthouse Point Park to snap a few pictures of the lighthouse and the famous carousel, and then made our way back home up the highway splitting through the reds, oranges and yellows of the leaves at their peak.
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This fall I have been trying to catch up on some of the things I had been meaning to do since we moved to Bristol. The first thing on my list was to finally see the Jack O' Lantern Spectacular at Roger Williams Zoo- which my friend Ariane has been a pumpkin carver at for the past eight or so years. It was beautiful! We also not only had a perfect mild and spooky-moon night, but we were able to get a private tour skipping the crowds through the zoo, following Ari with flashlights through the sleeping red pandas and the eagles which stood eerily alert on the branches. We were even able to get a sneak-peak of the behind-the scenes carving operation laid out in tents behind the exhibition. The theme was decades with a focus on music, so throughout the walk through the brightly lit pumpkins we could hear the sounds of each era of music. We always check Facebook pages of our favorite breweries on weekends when we have some spare hours to waste. Twelve Guns in Bristol had a few small artisan booths, a live band and a stein- hoisting competition, which only our friend Kristen was brave enough to partake in. The following weekend we finally were able to throw our Halloween party at our house complete with a skeleton charcuterie board and the next day we were surprisingly not too hungover! We stopped for brunch at Portside with Brad's family and walked a bit around the town. Later while we were looking for the new Neal Personeus http://www.nealpersoneus.com/ exhibit that was supposed to be in the Herreshoff Marine Museum, we actually poked around the museum and saw some pretty cool wooden boats. It's amazing how the space was used so efficiently- not a corner was wasted. While on a few of my walks I discovered a couple new places like Strawberry Moon in Warren- a shop that mainly sells crystals and tarot cards, but has some assorted plants and even some clothes. I also tried lunch at the new Happy Creperie in Warren- I had the oven turkey breast, spinach and brie- it was delicious! I will definitely go back to try their breakfast crepes.
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