Hi,
While waiting on a certain evil someone to make my day (or not), here are some pictures of where I was the past three days...
The first two are views of Central Park from our room.
A blue head on Park Avenue...
View from Pier 16 - a place I didn't know existed until this past weekend when we went up to see the waterfall art. We didn't end up going on a boat out to see the falls, because we could see four of them just fine from this pier. And, an added bonus, that dead-bodies-stripped-down-to-nerves-muscle-etc exhibit was in a building upstairs from where I sat at a bar, drinking white wine and talking to an interesting and engaging Albanian bartender while my husband, my closest friend who is my cousin, and her husband were all upstairs checking out dead people.
Here's one of the waterfalls, as seen from the pier...
Then back up to the Boat House in Central Park...
So there ya go. I never thought all of those "WhatI Did on My Summer Vacation" essays they make you write in elementary school would ever actually come in handy, but turns out, they do. Especially when you 'say it with pictures'. If only the nuns had let me do that. Maybe I'd have liked them better.......nah. Not a chance in hell of that ever happening.
How about you all? Where are you going this summer, or where have you already been?
Got any pics for us?
Monday, July 14, 2008
Weekend in New York City
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This was fun, Robin. I'm glad you had a nice trip.
I went to Baja Mexico with my parents and siblings. It was beautiful, but not much of a vacation. Two-year-old Beast Boy is afraid of the ocean, which creates a lot of problems in a beach house.
Goal for next year: go an an actual vacation with Hot Stuff, meaning NO KIDS.
Great pictures. Looks like fun.
And room service, huh? Enough said...
I'm guessing that wasn't the Central Park Motel 6, by the way, right?
Good goal, Kiertsen. I had years of really good 'I am Single, let the partying never end' getaways, and then, when they ended, they were followed by years of the kind you mentioned, followed by some really good ones with the girls as they got older, followed by, well...now.
We did some fun stuff. My husband and my cousin's husband are, shall we say, adventurous in the food department - so we went to this deli with pastrami sandwiches that I swear could've fed a family of four for a week. (I had a grilled cheese.)
We also went to Chinatown one day and went to an actual Dim Sum restaurant, not one of the pretend Americanized ones - where they proceeded to eat weird crap like chicken's feet to gross us out. It worked.
I had noodles and Chinese broccoli and some really good fried tofu, and the tea was amazing.
We had other weird stuff, because that's what they do - and at night, my cousin and I kind of insisted we have nightcaps and cheesecake in the lounge of our hotel, so we had at least one normal sitting per day.
And yep, ril, the initials of the place aren't MS - just as you guessed. They're RC.
I'm not supposed to be blogging at work, but I'm too keyed up about EE to stop doing this.
Bad Robin. Bad girl.
Good Robin. We love it.
And yeah. The hotel looks decent ; )
Looks good, Robin. I agree about the dead people. Not my kind of exhibit.
I have a few pics from SF. Not many as I prefer to experience my vacation fully and not through a camera lens. Will have to get the pics up soon.
Too keyed up about EE? Is something going on? I totally miss all the good stuff.
Glad you had a fun trip! Never been to the Big Apple myself. I shall have to live vicariously through you in more pics. : )
Oh wait a minute. You were gone for a few days. Therefore missing EE. Duh.
Looks like fun!
No vacations for me this summer:( With a 2yr and a 5 month old it's just not possible.
I'm hoping for a good vacation next year for our 5 yr anniversary. Hawaii being the ideal place.
Isn't that just classic Robin. The family are checking out one of the most innovative artists of our time (OK, so it's ick too) and you're chatting up a barman...
Well, you've always got to be on the lookout for material for that next novel, right?
LOL. Can't wait to hear Robin attempt an Albanian accent.
Thanks, Kiersten - glad you do!
Hi Sarah, I'd love to see a few pics. I love to travel and I love photography - because when I look at a photo that I took of a place I've been, I can feel again what it felt like, being there in the place, setting up the shot, remembering why I took it in the first place - you know, what I liked about the place and the angle of the scene enough to take it. It's a wonderful memory keeper.
I figure I was there three days and only took 12 or so photos, so not a big investment of time in order to keep some memories fresh in my mind. I know what you mean though - a trip only to take photos would be a different kind of trip. (But for me, still a good one, though it would have to be without JB, as he hates waiting for me when I'm in that mode. And his foot tapping isn't exactly conducive to any creativity!)
Hey freddie-
I was all keyed up because I'd just listened to EE, and yeah, that being gone for three days was weird as well.
Hi Natalie,
Been there, girl, not exactly the same agaes, but still. Trips when they're that age are sometimes so problematic the vacation is simply a work extension, geograhically speaking. When I had only the oldest, it was do-able. Two was a bear.
I'd say the five year anniversary trip- alone- even if it's only a day or two away, 'sounds like a plan'!
Hey McK -
He was worth chatting up, and I got a free second glass of wine out of it, somehow. And hey, ril's right, (I already have enough fodder for a series of novels)- but each new thing is a new thing indeed. Mr. Albania may well pop up somewhere - one never knows with me.
I don't do accents however. No matter what language- it always comes out Kentucky-fied. Example:
I had taken two years of German in college, gotten A's and all, had German friends I practiced with, and STILL, when actually in German, in Germany, I tried to speak the language so I wouldn't be an American jerk of a visitor - and when I said one time in conversation, "I think..." my German friend leaned over and smiled and said I should simply speak English, because, with my drawly twang, I'd just told her friends that "I stink..."
OK, Rob. SF pix are up here.
Thanks, Sarah!
My wife and I stayed at the Ritz once, in an enormous suite. We were told that it wasn't the suite President Bush (number 41, not number 43) stayed in, but it was where his Secret Service detail stayed (one floor below, I think). We were young and innocent and broke, and my sister was a bigwig fund manager and called in a favor from a broker friend. This suite was bigger than our first three (married life) apartments combined.
Seems like you had a nice trip despite the chicken feet.
Sorry to have been so quiet lately - we have guests and some minor crises and things have all been a bit hectic!
I'll be around mid-August. :)
I love your hotel view! I always take too many photographs and then spend ages going through them - I'll get caught up if we don't go away again this year; I'm up to last May :P
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