Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...

For those who asked for the snow...

The Big Apple

We're 3 and a half hour away by bus (Greyhound in this particular case).

Again, we went to the Skating Club of New York Showcase competition. We had a nice trip. The bus was ok , on time, we had some problems on the city arrival (oh, come on! it's not that snowy!) but we got there safe. We stayed at Jose's brother's friend's apartment (could somebody tell me if that amount of 's is ok?). it was nice, small but greatly located (next to a subway stop and a few blocks away from Chelsea Piers ice rink.

I wouldn't say my skating program was perfect, I missed a flip jump, my back spin was weird and my camel spin lacked of the spinning part, but I felt good with myself. I placed 5th, and I won't say how many people were competing. We placed 2nd on the Theater On Ice, but our program was really nice... I'm dying to watch it!!! (that's the bad part of skating: you can't watch the show).

We went to the Empire State observatory, to the Met, and fooled around in Times Square. I wish we had more time to spend there, but as soon as my brother in law moves there, I'll go and visit him.

We Cambridge people...

So, Jose and I decided to make our Superbowl night useful: we went to the movies.

This time (and I don't know if I wrote about my first experience Boston), we went to the Kendall theater, at Kendall Square of course. I should make a note here: I've been living here in the USA for a year and a half, and I still don't understand the "square" concept. I don't know if it's just a crossroads, or a small tiny little plaza that I just can't see... ok, Kendall Square, wherever that is.

The first time we went to the cinema, we went to the one next to the Boston Common, which I guess is one of the most elegant cinemas in the area. Now that we went to the movies in Cambridge, the place was way more simple, not fancy at all... even the tickets were very simple (just a printed receipt-like paper... by the way, I'm impressed of how fancy are movie tickets back in Mexico, they're like the fancy ones at Boston!), and it was less expensive, which is good. We saw "Up in the air". It's good, I liked it, although the end of the movie, when the guy..... jajajaja, no, I'm not giving any spoilers here.

Well, the point is that I kind of noticed a difference between Boston and Cambridge (for the people who haven't been here, we're just a Charles river away... Boston is the city in the back of my picture here). I guess Boston is the fancy city, and Cambridge is its students' version.

Next: Carla goes to the Big Apple!!

Hello blog, nice to see you again!

October 18th, 2009.

I know, it's been a long time... some people have come to visit us, my mother is coming in about 10 days and staying here for 2 weeks (yay!!!)... Anyway, I'll write something about my weekend.

Last Saturday, I went to look for my hockey gloves (yes, that's correct, I needed gloves to play ice hockey). The day was pretty nice, sunny, a little bit cold, windy as usual, but really nice (considering there's a low-pressure 'something' coming from Canada that's keeping us under 10° C). While I was on the T (subway in Bostonian), I saw a guy who I guess was competing at the Head Of The Charles, which happens to be a very important regatta (I knew this because of one of Jose's uncles, which is a rowing fan). I called Jose thinking we could go and take a look at the races, but he told me he wasn't feeling good, and that on Sunday there were more events to enjoy. It sounded fine for me, anyway I had to go to the first ice hockey practice at 4:20 p.m. (actually it started at 5 p.m., those extra 40 minutes were used for getting me into the many protective gear required).

I went to my first try on ice hockey... boy I'm bad at that! ... and yet I had so much fun!. I consider myself as a regular skater... figure skater to be specific. But on hockey skates, it's like going back to the basics. The good thing is that I'm not the worst one, and I had enough protection so I could fall and kind of enjoy it. The bad thing is that I got a blister on my foot, the way back home was sort of painful.

This morning, Jose and I woke up at around 11:20 a.m., ready to go to Harvard square and enjoy the Head Of The Charles... but then we take a look outside our window and it was raining, and it looked quite cold. Still, we went to see the races. of course, we went, saw 5 or 6 teams passing under the bridge, and went to have lunch... it was more the cold than the hunger that drove us away from the river. We went to Bartley's, probably the best burgers in Boston, and it was closed (of course, it's Sunday!). We went to Wagamama, a noodle restaurant. And there we sat by the window to watch the snow...

I'm a bad bad blogger

I want to be a positive person: I'm great at not updating my blog! :)

I'll post a text I wrote a few weeks ago, in October, right after the Head of the Charles regatta.

... and again, I'll try to update this thing more often.

A quick note...

Dedicated to Claudia, who asked me for a picture of my dog.

Her name is Rita, she's an Alaskan Malamut, about 14 years old, and she's living at my parent's house... I miss her.

Is this weather for real?

I remember last year, August 22nd, my plane landed sometime around 11 p.m.. I arrived to my new apartment, unfurnished, no lightning except for the kitchen and the bathroom. My husband, very nicely, arrived earlier that day, got the apartment keys, and went to look for something to sleep on, in this case an air bed (or whatever it's called). It was twin size... I had a bad night, but he had a worse one. Today, that story makes me laugh, but that day it wasn't that fun.

Anyway, I remember we slept with the windows opened, it was hot but kind of bearable. But last Saturday, when I came back home, I found a terribly hot weather, I couldn't sleep because of it. We bought a fan (it's really necessary if you don't have an A/C), now it's OK.... and today rained, so perhaps tonight is going to be more comfortable (or less uncomfortable at least), but I'm amazed how hot is here!!

For those of you who just arrived to Boston: some time ago I heard something like this: "In New England, if you don't like the weather, just wait 5 minutes". But even with this crazy weather, I love this city!