We had two busy weekends recently! We flew to Brooklyn, New York for a very happy occasion, and then flew to Boston, Massachusetts for a very sad occasion.
I thought I'd be able to keep up with my blog while away, but all good intentions went awry when the wifi in the hotels where we were staying would not connect to many sites, or send passwords to my email for some reason.
A view of lower Manhattan, left, and the Gowanus area of Brooklyn, right from an elevated roadway.
Our visit to Brooklyn was to celebrate two happy occasions! One was the 70th anniversary of my husband and his family's immigration from Italy to the United States. They were sponsored by a cousin who had visited them in southern Italy in the 1950s, and convinced their father to move to the US. My husband and two of his siblings were under ten years old when they arrived with their Dad, along with their adult older sister. Their Mother was able to immigrated two years later to join them.
The second happy occasion was my husband's oldest brother's 80th birthday! We all celebrated in his favorite Italian restaurant. His family is planning a party for him later this month during Thanksgiving week, but we were happy to be able to celebrate earlier with him, while also celebrating the anniversary.
We had some amazing views of Manhattan from the plane!
On the left is lower Manhattan with a part of Brooklyn in the distance, and on the right a view of Central Park in mid-Manhattan.
We also had an opportunity to go to dinner with long time Brooklyn friends on our visit, and I also had a nice visit with my oldest brother and sister-in-law where they live on Long Island. We all took a walk to the Fire Island Lighthouse while there.
We returned home two days to fly out again, this time to Logan Airport in Massachusetts, where my youngest brother and family. lives in a southern part of the state.
There was still some pretty fall color in the area.
This was a sad occasion, as my brother's wife of 40 years passed away suddenly at the end of September from cancer. We attended a beautiful Celebration of Life and Funeral Prayer Service held for her. We all made donations to the American Cancer Society in remembrance of her.
Let us all pray a cure for cancer will be found one day!
Life is full of both the happy and sad--enjoy each day to the fullest!
I will return to my regular blog schedule this upcoming weekend.
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