As I mentioned in another recent post, I've had a very busy summer so far.
It feels like I've been traveling out town monthly since April 2024, sometimes several times a month. We are either flying somewhere to visit someone, go somewhere on a weekend getaway, or do a Colorado road trip (we've done at least 3 since May so far). Now we are at home for a while but we have a series of 3 different out-of-town guest visiting over the next 2 months.
Sounds insane, right? We didn't actually plan for this, we just kept saying yes - ha!
So in early July 2024 John and I traveled to the Eastern Coast of the US to visit my brother and his family who lives outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (or "Philly" as us East Coaster call it); and went to the Bronx in New York to see a baseball game at Yankee Stadium. We also visited with my long-time blogging buddy some of you know - Claudia McGill of Claudia McGill and Her Art World who also lives outside of Philly.
In this post I share stories and photos from some of the highlights of our recent East Coast Adventures.
Trip to the Bronx to see the Yankees play at Yankee Stadium
The second day of our visit with my brother, he droves us to New York, to the Bronx to see the New York Yankees play baseball against the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. This is an iconic/legendary match up (not a lot of love between these two teams) and this was John and my first visit to Yankee Stadium. My sister-in-law did not attend as it was a swelteringly hot day (nearly 100 degrees F and humid) and she decided to stay cool at home!
Here we are outside waiting on line to enter the stadium:
And here we are inside the stadium as we tried to watch the game while melting from the heat!
My brother found a place near a set of concession stands that had air conditioning (sort of) and we moved to that area to finish watching the game as we were turning into piles of sweat! John took my nephew Austin to get Yankees hat so he could be an official looking Yankees fan!
John absolutely adores my nephews (my brother and my sister each have one son) like I do and we always have a wonderful time with them.
The Yankees beat the Red Sox so there were a lot of happy New Yorker fans in the stadium!
A Visit with Claudia
On the last day of our trip before heading to the airport, my brother dropped us off at the beautiful home (filled with so much amazing art) of my long time blogging buddy, Claudia McGill of Claudia McGill and Her Art World.
John and I spent the afternoon with Claudia and her wonderful husband. She gave us a tour of their home and her studio filled with her art and inspiration.
Here is a photo of a section of her studio that was in her recent blog post, Tiny House 24!.
We got to spend a lot of time talking about art and life while sitting around her living room having tasty snacks.
If you follow her blog, you might recognize this photo of Claudia as an image similar to her inspiration for one of her sketches or painting (by the way she had fabulous lamps in her house, they all looked like they should be in her sketches/painting).
And as a nearly overwhelming surprise, Claudia gave me one of her Tiny Houses art pieces that she made for me! Below are photos that do not do the piece justice. She will have a future blog post with much better photos about this house:
I couldn't fit it in my suitcase so she is mailing it to me and I cannot wait for it to arrive!
Claudia in person was just as wonderful as I imagined she would be. She is the fourth person from "bloglandia" that I've now met in person.
Fiber Art in the Philadelphia Airport
I love the Philadelphia Airport. It isn't more convenient or better laid out than most airports I've traveled in, but it always has fantastic art displays. When traveling alone to Philadelphia, I've spent an hour or more while awaiting my flight, wandering the concourses to see the different rotating art exhibits.
They have an ongoing (for a couple years at least) exhibit of fiber art, primarily crochet as well as new pieces that have been added. Thought I would share some of those cool works:
It was an awesome trip!
Postscript
Mike was at "Dog Camp" while we were traveling and here is a photo of him with his friends playing:
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