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Today we spent the day in Cambridge, MA in Harvard Square and although the weather was only 60 degrees, it was so fresh and lovely out with a great energy in the air. Sipping on boba tea, we hopped around to all of these book stores like the Coop and the Harvard book store along with some antique book shops and a multi language shop called Schoenhof's Foreign Books where I met a cashier from Munich and purchased a German language CD/book kit.

We also hit the international newsstand and went to Grafton Street for a delicious lunch. We walked the grounds at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University where we enjoyed a peaceful garden with a fountain. We hit Tokyo Kid for some Japanese strawberry marshmallow candy and to see if they had anything new. We watched the Peruvian band on the corner who hit every major city in the world playing their pipes and drawing a large crowd, selling CDs after the show. I found a new book called The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain, a professor of Internet Law at Harvard (I can't wait to read it).

And at the end of the day, we went to the most exquisite little slice of heaven called Sweet, with letterpressed take out boxes and gorgeous wallpaper and above all, delicious little cupcakes in flavors including Red Velvet, Boston Cream Pie (of course), Vanilla, Lemon, Coconut Chocolate and more. That, dare I say, was the icing on the perfect cake called a lovely day with my adorable husband.

And then we drove home, an hour by car, and made it just before the sunset. Here is our backyard as we arrived. Lovely, isn't it? It was this perfectly lovely shade of yellow-green thanks to the golden sun. So serene. Our little city escape here in the New Hampshire countryside. (images: Holly Becker)