This week we added more airmiles to our journey by travelling to New York City!!
Our trip is "very organisated" and "no detours" at all^^ I wouldn`t hire us as travel agents :D I mean who else travels to Toronto than all the way to Edmonton and than flies back to New York?! And our next stop is Vancouver haha.......Valerie already said, our route describes totally our personalities! :) But when you have the opportunitiy to stay here, do it!
We`re here since tuesday but before our adventure in NYC starts we had to say goodbye to our Hosts in Saskatechwan!
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After the butchering season was over we had to clean the barn and it was literally the shitties Job EVER!!! + it was cold, so the poop was partly frozen and the Job stinky and exhausting aswell. One barn we couldn`t even clean cause it was too frozen.....but anyways after that the laying hens had a new clean barn and the Baby laying hends could move into a bigger barn.
Also the French couple left with 2 days delay cause there was a bad snow Blizzard coming from Alberta! We also had a more or less successful Halloweenparty :D the Highlight was a flashlight scavenger hunt along the hiking trail....which was not that scary xD But we made a lot of delicious Food and Cookies. Generally we had A LOT of good Food the last days we stayed at the Labrash Farm, which was not good for my belly :D
Now its almost Winter in Canada and our work was mostly preparing the farm for the winter. We had to insolate the chicken Coups and reorganisate the quonset. The days were colder and the sun already set at 5 o`clock. ( also here in New York, which is so weird, cause you think you don`t have so much time anymore). Actually good conditions to go hunting :D Justin got is deer huntig license a few weeks ago and he took us with him. What shall I say it was definitely an experience to sit in silence outside in a bush ( in camouflage outfits) and wait till some animals appear, which they didn't do :D only I saw a rabbit but it was too fast. How sad ;P
A few days before we left Laureen hat a suprise for us. We drove with her into the City with no clue. Before she only told us to wear clothes, which are easily removable....we thought : okey maybe Sauna? or a visit at the gynecologist :D Then we stopped in front of a Spa Center and Laureen treated a massage to us. We were so overwhelmed. We totally needed it and enjoyed our 30 min relaxiation massage :) Thank you again Laureen!
Then the 11th November came and we had to catch our Train from Saskatoon to Edmonton, from where We flew over Chicago to Newark, NJ. Jep, half a Worldtrip but when we booked our flights we thought our plans won`t Change again and that we won`t Need a Transfer posting insurance or whatever! But guessed wrong xD Of course things changed ( we canceled our last farmstay in Alberta) and we couldn`t Change the date + City departure! As I said NEVER hire us for organisate your trip :D
Anyways the whole Family drove with us to Saskatoon, where we visited the University ( really nice and BIG) and ate at a Burgerrestaurant. After they dropped us off at the trainstation in the middle of nowhere and the sad goodbye ( which was hard after spending 6 weeks in this Family I really felt like a part of them and I`m so thankful that our paths have crossed each other! The Family did so much for us and I really felt at home) we had to wait 3 hours. The Station was very bare and cold. As the Train arrived I felt like Anna Karenina, entering the Train in cold Russia except I didn`t wear nice, expensive fur :D
We drove overnight, the Train was not full and I could actually sleep! Arrived in Edmonton we decided to take a cap cause the Train was late and we thought timechange blaba. Than we arrived at the Airport only to recognize, that we had more time than expected. After checking in and going through custume Service we first flew to Chicago and arrived in Newark at 22.00 pm safley but without Valeries backback and its still lost without a trace!
The first two days we were pretty optimistic and enjoyed Manhattan but now after 4 days and many phonecalls nobody has a clue where it is!
We're staying with friends of Valerie's parents in New Jersey. Everyday we drive into manhattan by train. The first day we came out of the station we just stood there and looked around, completely unaware where we are :) everything is so big and we had no clue where to go first! We end up walking to Times Square, through Central Park and visited the Guggenheim museum! When we finally come home we where exhausted and for me definitely too many people in Manhattan ! I mean we just came from Lumsden with around 2.000 inhabitants to New York ...I was still in farmmodus and after the first day I didn't really like it! I don't know why....but now after 4 days with more sightseen like ground zero , Moma, bus tour, Brooklyn ....New York takes you by the hand and you just go with the flow. Everywhere are lights and something new to discover. I still don't know if I like it here more or at a farm in the nature! But I realized how wasteful and Shopping addicted our society is and how long I haven't been shopping and that I don't really need something xD
My highlights so far were the Empire State Building at night and the not existing queue in front of it ( it was actually quite empty up there not like I thought full of tourists ) and the walk over the Brooklyn bridge towards the manhattan skyline at twilight ! These pictures I'll never forget!!
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