Day one: Explore!

WE'RE HERE! After 3 flights and nearly 12 hours of travel time, the McHenry's have finally reached Connecticut! On New Year's day, no less. Seems extremely fitting :)

We arrived at our apartment around 10pm and immediately unpacked (we couldn't help it!), so hopefully it will start feeling like home in no time. Our new place is part of Town Walk at Hamden Hills. If you want our address, let us know. We love mail!

Morning came all too soon today, what with the 3 hour time change, but we had work to do. Not only did we need some essentials (um, t.p. please??) but we were eager to get to know our new town! Turns out there is one long road that runs north-south thru Hamden and connects it to New Haven. Along that road exist such gems as Petco, Joann's, and Bed Bath and Beyond...we had hit the jackpot :)

After loading up on the necessaries we continued south to New Haven, which is much closer than we expected. We landed right in the middle of Yale's campus. We've got to say it - the East Coast knows how to do universities. Beautiful!! 

Everyone we've talked to about New Haven has raved about their restaurants, so we decided to have a late lunch downtown at an Indian restaurant called Tandoor. Deeeelicious. Full of naan and tikki masala goodness, we decided to check out The Sleeping Giant - a state park with rolling hills resembling (you guessed it) a sleeping giant! All of this was just minutes from our place!

We ended our day by taking miss Lady for a walk around our new neighborhood, where we met a really nice couple who we hope to go out with in the future (hooray!) and then we had dinner at Eli's on Whitney...get it? Cheap laughs, lol. But really, it's a great brick oven pizza place at the bottom of our hill, and we will be returning.

Tomorrow is our first day of orientation, so it's time to turn in for the night. Keep us in your prayers as we finally get back to work, we are so excited to get going!

Peace out, girl scouts :)