Greetings from snowy Brooklyn!
Unlike many of my friends, I spent the entire weekend smiling. Snow makes me feel like a child again. I absolutely love the peace and tranquility that a fresh snow brings to the streets of New York in addition to the child like antics that come out during the aftermath. We so often finds ourselves going constantly, with very little relaxation and down time so it is a welcome blessing to have snowy conditions force us to rest and relax. My in-laws, Bob and Mimi, happened to be in town this weekend which made things even more special. I can’t tell you the last time we all spent so much time together.
Friday evening Mimi (my mother-in-law) and I started the weekend with a donation based community yoga class at Brooklyn Yoga Project before dinner at the adorable Locanda Vini e Olii. Their house made olive oils stole the show but everything we tried was delicious.
Saturday morning, I woke up and ran to the window, like a kid on Christmas morning. I managed my expectations, after years of disappointment, expecting to see a few inches and nothing more. Instead, I saw that our back yard was a blustery, winter wonderland!
Like crazies, we bundled up and headed to another wonderful hot, power yoga class at Tangerine Yoga. Considering the conditions, we were tempted to stay in our pajamas and bake an elaborate, warm breakfast but we wanted to share this yoga studio with both Meg and Mimi after weeks of raving about their classes and hands-on instructors. By the time we left the studio at 10:30 the wind gusts were reaching 30 miles per hour and Brooklyn looked like the inside of a snow globe.
The rest of our snow day accomplishments included making homemade pizza dough, baking a chocolate cake from scratch, perfecting the art of creating snow angels, working on our snowball aim and warming up with a beer at our favorite neighborhood bar, Buschenschank.
Your turn: What did you do this weekend? Were you in a snow globe or in one of the few areas that didn’t see cold weather and flurries?
What a wonderful weekend! Homemade chocolate cake AND homemade pizza?! Be still my heart. I can’t tell you how much time I spent staring out the window at the snow this weekend in Charlotte…
SO SO delicious! 🙂
I LOVED all the snow this weekend as well…and I’m still loving it!
I found myself wandering around the Meatpacking District this morning after a group fitness class, and the city just felt so peaceful and beautiful with the snow on the ground!
The LIRR has me still stranded out in eastern Queens. The snow days were fun and all but now I am getting so restless! I would really rather be at the office right now (someone remind me of this in a couple days).
I hope you’ve made your way out Gianna!! That stinks that the LIRR has so many issues!
I just moved to the left coast from my beloved NYC so no flurries here. But I was SO sad to miss Jonas and felt super homesick. Looks like you had the perfect snowy weekend, though. Glad you had the chance to play in it!
This is exactly how I felt last winter when we barely had any freezing weather in Geneva, Switzerland and all my NYC friends were in snowy, cold weather! 🙂
Minnesota was surprisingly nice! Saturday was about 30 degrees, while the previous weekend was “feels like” -20. It was great to get some fresh air!