Hello Charmings! We’ve been planning our upcoming to birthday getaway to the Berkshires, MA. We love that our birthdays and Halloween are just a few days apart and get to celebrate together. Of course, we’re thinking back to last year’s epic birthday trip where I turned 30! Click the link below to come along with us in search of mystic fairies + have a Boston tea party:
First stop on our trip was to Mystic where we stayed with our Workaway family at Brigadoon Bed & Breakfast. They put on the best party for us and truly treated us like family, even though we’d only know each other a few months! Our volunteer experience really brought us close and it was the perfect place to begin my 30th year.
We went in search of faeries at the Florence Griswold Museum where we got to discover ancient fairy civilizations around the world and through time and how their homes would have look! It was the most clever and enchanting exhibit. Here you can see the gypsy faeries of Eastern Europe and their caravan. We also loved the gold miner fairy village of 1800s California compete with mini saloon! The details were absolutely incredible, intricate, and fantastical!
We loved the history of the house and the woman behind it. During the great depression era Miss Florence almost lost her family home but turned it into a boarding house which led to her opening her home to artists. Her home and property flourished with art and life again and it became the famous Lyme Art Colony which turned into a museum full of actual paintings on the walls that her tenants would do as a gift.
We had the most lovely time in Connecticut and then onward we went to Massachusetts! On Jonas’ birthday we went to Boston for a tea party! We got to try the 5 historic teas that were thrown into the harbor a winters night in 1773 in protest of taxation without representation of the British.
We took a wander along the Freedom Trail where you can discover the history of the American Revolution.
It started to rain hard on us but we got to see the Paul Revere House and the Old State House.
Soaking wet we arrived to the Seaport to see the last show of The Rise of the Jack O’ Lanterns in Boston! Jonas hand painted and carved dozens of pumpkins for this event and it was such a great time celebrating Jonas’ birthday there and seeing all his hard work put into the pumpkins!
We loved Boston and had would definitely love to go back for some more charming adventures. Next stop on trip was to SALEM for a perfectly charmed Halloween, so stay tuned for part 2! We love celebrating our birthdays & Halloween together and we hope you enjoy coming along for the New England October adventures! Looking forward to sharing our charming Berkshire getaway with you soon.
-Lindsay & Jonas
