Buddies

Even though L pretends not to love Xan man....he really does and they are buddies.

Street Art

Haha! Love NY. E was a great subject and these girls in Union Square were cute. And my camera pretty much sucks. Any good suggestions that aren't expensive monster cameras?

Bowling Partay

E was invited to a bowling party. She is um really good at bowling. Ahem...

I think its gonna make it.

Dang! A gutter ball.

UN again

I am running way behind on the blog...again so therefore the next few weeks will be updates from the past month or so.

The UN General Assembly happened AGAIN, we keep hoping that they'll cancel it. Sigh. This is a picture of me waiting to cross the street for 15 minutes!! Argh. Each corner looked like the one opposite me, crowds of people most with places to go, but some tourist with no place to go. (which is annoying because they think its just delightful that Obama will be driving by and can't wait to snap a photo of his car) You can read my rant here from last year.

Cupcakes

We tried these two cupcakes places....on the same day, but only b/c the cupcake stop truck happened to be a block away from Melissa's in SOHO :) My reviews:





Teensy tiny...tasted like store bought.

Same as above.

I think I will stick with good 'ol Buttercup, which I know a lot of people don't like b/c they are too dry, but I love them b/c they taste homemade...gasp! Oh and I also love love love Butterlane, but Buttercup is only 2 blocks away.

Italian Day

The festival where we got Chuck (see post below) was in Little Italy. I don't know what it was called so if someone knows please enlighten me. Basically it was a glorified street fair. And by glorified I mean add 10 more big fat sausage on a bun sold by greasy guys carts and you're there.

Ridiculously crowded. We crawled through at a snails pace. Luckily we only got stuck behind smokers blowing smoke in our faces 11 times. No biggie.

Yum Yum. 3 please. But wait is this an Italian food....? Does the Olive Garden have Fried Oreo's on their menu?

Now for sure I know that Italians eat lots of fried Twinkies. I am part Italian myself and I just knew I felt a kinship with them immediately. So of course I ate 4. And just when I was seriously wondering how this would affect my cholesterol levels I read the sign. Phew, no cholesterol. But then again I have been tasting copper for the past few days....

3 fried oreo's, 4 fried Twinkies* and one goldfish (live not fried)later we were home. We had fun enjoying the city and people watching. Despite what I say about the smoke and crowds I do love events in the city. They are prime people watching time. I have to say my favorite thing to watch that day was the people who actually bought the nasty sausage on a bun sandwiches trying to take that first bite.....priceless.


*For the 3 people who read my blog, this side note is not for you. But just in case there is a 4th person out there who reads this and doesn't know me, please know this. I DID NOT buy the above items. I was joking. I like to joke and joking is fun, so please don't take what I say to heart and please don't get offended by my hilarity.

Chuck

Because we're such awesome parents we let E play the throw the ping pong ball in the bowl game thinking she didn't have a chance.

(This was at a street fair in Little Italy...more on that to come.)

We were wrong. Meet Chuck. Partly because that was the name on the bag, but mostly because Nee Nee has/had a fish with the same name. They sold fish food there for $3, but I thought no we can find it at a pet store for cheaper. In NYC? Not likely. The store by us wanted 12 bones for a big container that would feed 5 fish for 7 life times. The sad news is, we shoulda bought the food. RIP Chuck.