The Day of Unplugging

With today’s high paced world, it can be easy to get wrapped up in our electronics and forget to be present in our day-to-day life. With our faces buried deep into our phones, tablets and laptops each and every day at work and at home it can be difficult to feel like you’re truly connecting to someone else. Take a step back and immerse yourself in your everyday life without your phone in the way by celebrating the Day of Unplugging this Friday!

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There’s no better place to relax and get away from it all than a coffee shop. Quiet with tasty smells wafting under your nose? What could be better? Instead of plopping into a chair and swiping through Twitter for an hour while you enjoy your coffee/tea/hot chocolate, you can read a real book! Not an ebook, but a true, paper novel. Relax for hours soaking in every moment of your unplugged time. Pfefferkorn’s Coffee is the best place to do that at. Right around the corner from McHenry Row and with some amazing coffees, you’ll love spending your time disconnected here.

The best place of all to spend your time unplugged is outdoors! Head to Latrobe Park for some good old-fashioned fresh air. Spend a day at the tennis courts or the basketball courts to get your energy out. Spending your days hunched over a computer doesn’t make for a healthy lifestyle. If you live with four legged, barking friends, bring them out to Latrobe Park to take advantage of the dog park! You’ll really enjoy watching them frolic about the area with other dogs. Taking a day to recline outdoors whether it’s in the dog park, on the court or at a picnic in the grass will rejuvenate you and relieve you of the duty of always being attached to your electronics.

Now that we’ve had a few bursts of wonderful weather, we’d like to believe that winter is finally on its way out. That means it’s going to be nice enough to head out to the rooftop terrace and lounge at McHenry Row Apartments. The luxurious lounge chairs will lend you a beautiful view of the harbor while you wait for your lunch to cook on the barbecues. Bring your friends to truly bond face-to-face rather than through a screen. We bet that once your friends get a load of the views from up there, you may just have a few new neighbors!

Unplugging yourself from your daily life is good for you sometimes. Spending too much time in front of a screen can make you forget about the outside world every once in awhile.

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