We are just about to hit the road and take historic route 9 back to Brooklyn. We have had a lovely weekend filled of the usuals – a hilarious dinner at Cracker Barrel with Steve and Colette, a visit to Wal-Mart (totally awful as they were renovating!), spending time with family and then – Rebecca’s…
Category: Life in New York
#blogjune – Day 30 – And they lived…
Well we made it! A blog a day for a whole month and for some reason this was easier than last year… but I think I can attribute that to blogging more regularly in general this year. It has been a blast – I haven’t commented on other blogs as much as I would like…
#blogjune – Day 26 – Fireflies
On Thursday night as we were walking back from the subway I saw the most amazing sight – fireflies! A few of the big homes on our block have lovely front gardens and the fireflies looked like little drops of amber flickering in the dark. They are really beautiful and it was so dark I…
#blogjune – Day 24 – Cars 2 3D
HAPPY FRIDAY! Woohoo indeed! We raced out of work to make the 4.15 session of Cars 2 in 3D. I had not seen Cars itself and have never been to a 3D movie before, but I was trusting Bill’s judgement with his one and he was happy I had agreed to see a ‘Bill Movie’…
#blogjune – Day 23 – Feast of Corpus Christi
On Thursday night it was muggy and humid – it has been like that all week in the city. Foggy, stormy and sticky and by Thursday I was well and truly over it. We ended up heading to Holy Innocents Church on 38th Street for their Solemn Mass in the Extraordinary Form and Procession. In…
#blogjune – Day 21 – Subway posters
I love looking at the posters that line subway stations. This is an example of a good subway poster… one promoting the Morgan Library and Museum, another one for an exhibition at the Whitney Museum and then a movie poster – But today… I got this – Scary clown faced man was looking straight at…
#blogjune – Day 19 – Long Beach
As it wasn’t humid today, but still nice and warm we decided to get on the Long Island Railroad and head out to Long Beach, Long Island. The LIRR leaves from Atlantic Terminal – just a 15 minute walk from our place so we got up, got ready and headed out early. It is such…
#blogjune – Day 17 – B. Cafe West
Before we headed to the Sunburnt Calf for the Camille & Michael’s going away party, we dropped into B. Cafe West for some dinner. It is just next to the Mermaid Inn and we intended to go there for dinner, but thought we’d give B Cafe a try – it wasn’t too bad! We shared…
#blogjune – Day 16 – Bye Cam!
When you move overseas on your own, a strange thing happens when it seems your friends end up feeling like your family. One of the first friends I made when I moved here was Camille and it was super fun as we worked together. I’ll never forget my first day and I was waiting for…
#blogjune – Day 14 – Today
5.45am – Awake. 6.10am – Say goodbye to Bill as he left for DC. 6.20am – Shower. 6.40am – Breakfast. 7.05am – Out the door. 7.07am – Hey there, hello and good morning to someone from Queen of All Saints that I saw on the way to the bus. 7.15am – On the bus. 7.26am…