Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Visit www.google.com today and you'll see that it's Dr. Seuss's 105th birthday! 

 

Here's a place to vote for your favorite book:
http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2009/03/happy-birthday.html

Celebrity Sighting

We saw John Stewart with his kids at the Natural History Museum in NYC. We didn't want to bother him, but I couldn't resist taking a picture with Pearl. He's in there. Do you see him behind the railing with his kids? He's not the guy standing in front of the arch. He's to the left squatting below the railing (at kid height). N is the large decoy to the left of the picture. I'm a great spy, eh?

SNOW!

We woke up to half a foot of snow this morning! Thank goodness the storm waited until we had safely driven back to Boston from NYC. It's coming down at a rate of an inch per hour. I'm just happy to have made it to work (with no problems on the T) where it is warm and dry and not windy!

The snow is beautiful. I'll always find the snow beautiful. But, as S pointed out last night, we are looking forward to tulips! I do love tulip time.

The trip haps

Here's how it all went down in NYC this weekend...in poetry?

Reliquary. (The community museum in Brooklyn where H has displayed her own exhibit on Milk!)

tacos. guacamole. chips.

Slumber party.

Mini market breakfast.

Subway.

Natural history museum.

Meet up with M and N.

Celebrity sighting.

Magnolia cupcakes.

Pizza lunch.

(gotta love dessert first!)

Strolling Manhattan.

Pass Julliard.

Arrive at Rockefeller Center for coffee and hot cocoa break while watching ice skaters.

Stroll to Madison Square Garden.

Note the temperature is getting cooler.

Meet up with J and let M and N get checked in.

Subway to Greenwich Village.

Stroll and search for fun dinner place that can seat seven.

Cuban place is packed.

Pub place is hosting a party of 50 and is full.

Dumpling place is too small and better for takeout.

Japanese place has two tables of 4 available. They rearranged the tables into one and we took up the whole restaurant. It turns out they just opened the day before and their kitchen wasn't fully open. All they could do was sushi. This was a little more adventurous than A2, T, and J bargained for, but it was a great adventure. I had to converse in Japanese a little ,cuz they didn't understand our English. It made me happy to see Japanese people working a sushi restaurant. I got my favorite and sometimes hard to find Natto Maki.

M and N left for the Rangers game. Goodbye is always tough. I miss them.

Dumplings for the adventurous sushi tasters.

Cousin party at J and H's

Spades

Celebrity (a cross between of charades and Taboo)

Slumber party

Morning hug for "running in the snow" B and a quick visit.

Lunch with F C E and T2.

Smiles.

Tickles.

Catching snowflakes in our mouth.

Driving.

Stop # 1 drop off A2

Driving.

Stop # 2 drop off T and visit with his parents while they feed is dinner.

Dessert.

More dessert to go.

Driving.

Driving.

Discussing music and the fun weekend.

Shower.

Blogging.

Sleeping.


A = adrian, M = mikey, N = nate, J = jake, H = Hi'ilei, T = tim, A2 = ashley, F = flint, C = christa, E = emeline, T2 = tucker, and B = britta

Whirled Peas

Imagine Whirled Peas

This phrase was on a bumper sticker in NYC and I keep creating different mental images of whirled peas. Yellow peas, green peas, black eyed peas, swirls of different whirled peas...

World Peace would be much more helpful, in my opinion, but definitely less tasty.

Magnolia Cupcakes!!

Wingnut's Cupcake Review:

At Magnolia it's serve yourself, so we grabbed a box for six and the boys (M, N, and A) all chose chocolate with mocha frosting. T got a cookie. I chose the blue frosting. A threw in the carrot cake and I chose the red velvet cupcake. The carrot cake cupcake was later enjoyed by A2.

We all dipped our fingers into all the frostings, because that is the most important part of a cupcake.

The mocha frosting got rave reviews. The blue frosting tasted blue and was super thick and pasty. It's reviews were not very rave at all. The cake part was a bit old..that cupcake was beautiful and cute, but not so tasty. I don't like coffee flavored things, but I definitely vote the mocha frosting the best of the bunch. It was the perfect consistency! The red velvet cupcake had good frosting and the bright red cake stuck to my teeth. I had red teeth for a while.

I've just recently been introduced to red velvet cake (via A&N's wedding in October 2008) and this red velvet cupcake could not even compare to the wedding cake we had in October. That was delicious!

I think the moral of the story is this:

When at Magnolia, choose the fresh cupcakes.

Of course, there were plenty of other pastry types that we didn't sample, and I'm definitely willing to go back and give them a try!

A = adrian, M = mikey, N = nate, J = jake, H = Hi'ilei, T = tim, A2 = ashley, F = flint, C = christa, E = emeline, T2 = tucker, and B = britta

The ABCs of my trip to NYC.

A and I rolled down to NYC this weekend to hang with M and N. J and H were kind enough to host a Cousins Partaay at their pad in Brooklyn so we picked up T and A2 along the way. We were excited to be joined by F, C, E, and T2 for lunch today! I snuck in a quick visit with B this morning while everyone else was sleeping. It's so fun to "run" into her in different cities!

It was an action packed weekend that deserves more write up, but I'm currently laying in bed with the electric blanket turned on writing this on Pearl because I'm too tired to sit up at the computer. The bathroom clock says it's after 11:30, but that's just because the batteries died. It's really only 8:58PM. (S will appreciate this time!)

A = adrian, M = mikey, N = nate, J = jake, H = Hi'ilei, T = tim, A2 = ashley, F = flint, C = christa, E = emeline, T2 = tucker, and B = britta