Weekend Snapshots

This weekend I was up in Syracuse visiting my boyfriend. We went apple picking at Beak & Skiff, which I highly recommend if you're in upstate NY. Not only can you eat all the apples you want while picking, they have a tavern where you can sample the apple wine and hard cider they make there. I went home with a couple bottles, I can't resist a dry hard cider! While out in the orchard, I got on my boyfriend's shoulders so we could reach the highest branches. On Sunday morning we made these bacon, egg and cheese cups and some apple pies using this recipe.

The Salvation Army in Syracuse is one of my favorite places to thrift. Jimmy, his two roommates and I all walked out of there with our arms filled with great things. I got a bunch of sweet clothes, including the denim skirt I'm wearing in these pictures. It has this cool little suede/snake skin detailing on the bottom that I love. The boys bought the cool hand-carved barrel that we filled with hot cider and whiskey and served in the little cups it came with. Overall it was a perfect fall weekend. 

So Long Summer

This past weekend I went to visit my boyfriend in Syracuse. He's starting his last year of school, so this weekend was a clear demarcation of summer's end. Now that I have a job and have less of a "summer," it was weird to be involved in catch up conversations learning what people did for the past couple months, since I didn't have much of a response myself.

It was one of those perfect end of the summer weekends — driving to go hiking with the windows down, blasting the Avett brothers, wearing our bathing suits under our clothes, stripping down to cool our bodies in a waterfall, ice dyeing some thrift store finds, and having one too many beers on the front porch. I wish weekends were always like this, mornings spent eating the peanut butter chocolate chip waffles my boyfriend makes me, our days dictated by whatever we feel like doing. Though I am actually taking a class at the Community College this semester, I find that I am still nostalgic for the back to school feeling. I guess I'll have to settle for weekends of pretending I'm still in college...oh well!