My Birthday celebration!!!

We had SO much fun!! it was GREAT!!
thanks a lot to everyone and we have to repeat it!!

Whisky Fest Chicago!!

It was fun to go to an event like this in the U.S. I’ve been to a couple of whisky tastings in Berlin and Bogotá, but those were different "more serious". This was more like a convention where 90% of the people there were men. Afterward I attended a Laphroaig tasting, which was a lot of fun and good flavor, directed by Simon Brooking Master Ambassador of Laphroaig. After trying many different options, the answer is still the same; Laphroaig 15 years old is the absolute best scotch “whiskey”!!

My Birthday trip to New England!!

My trip didn’t start “very well”. 2 hours after leaving my house, around 4am, I got pulled over by a police officer in Indiana who gave me a speed ticket for $360. :( It was early and the highway was totally empty, I wasn’t trying to break the rules, but I certainly was going fast. I guess I still have the German idea of no speed limit in the highway, which clearly doesn’t apply here.
16 hours after the “incident”, we arrived to Chris’ parents house in Massachusetts.

On Saturday we went to Vermont, had lunch in Burlington (pretty cool college town), walked by lake Champlain and headed to Montpelier, the capital, where we saw the smallest capitol building in the U.S.

Sunday was a GREAT day!! In the morning we drove to New Hampshire and went to the Parker’s Maple Barn, where we saw the whole process of how to make maple syrup from tabbing the trees to boiling the sap and getting the correct amount of sugar in it in order to become good maple syrup.

We meet up with Chris’ parents for lunch. Cyan, his mom, made arrangements to take us to this wonderful restaurant called the Pickity Place. Which is in the house in which the drawings for the little red riding hood were based. Everything was about the story that I used to love when I was little and the food was totally organic, made with vegetables and herbs that they grow in their garden. I totally loved it!!

After lunch we made our way to Maine, we went to York Village, saw a gorgeous light tower

and spend the night in Freeport at a great bed and breakfast with a fireplace in our room, which I absolutely loved!!!

On my Birthday I woke up to a delicious breakfast; pancakes with Maine blueberries and Vermont’s maple syrup. Freeport is a small and beautiful town FULL of outlet malls, so the next activity of the day was to go shopping!! (Poor Ingrid)!!


Lunchtime was in Portland and lobster in the menu! American style of course, which means you eat it with your hands, the side are French fries with ketchup and the best part is that they give u plastic bib as u can see in the picture.

At night, back in Massachusetts, we got together with Chris’ parents for a nice dinner. It was a GREAT Birthday and I got lots of presents too!!

On Tuesday we went to Rhode Island. First Providence, where we saw the capitol building and walked around, it was nice although that city isn’t that “cool”.

Then we made our way to Newport did the cliff walk along the eastern shore and saw the Mansions. That was a really nice city!! In our way home we stopped in Hartford, Connecticut where they have the prettiest capitol building that I’ve seen in the U.S.

For the first time I actually wanted to see the building in the inside, but it was closed already so I had to tell the security guard a big story and he let us in. it was super cool because we were the only ones in the building. Finally we went to Albany, NY. It was a pretty cool trip; I got to see a lot of new and beautiful places!!!
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