NYC day two...so far, so good, no rain! Well, maybe a little...

Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Flushing, Queens & Bryant Park

Anthony Bourdain once ate a cumin lamb sandwich in Flushing on his show No Reservations.  He made it look so damn good Randy had to go over there and try it.  For those of you who don't know, Flushing is the Chinatown of Queens.  It's about a 45 min train ride from where we're staying, we practicallly got off the subway, headed to the restaurant, went back to the subway and back into Manhattan. Hahaha, yah, it was that good, and worth the trip.

Before we got to the restaurant, I stopped by this window by the train station.  They were selling a bunch of food for really cheap.  I bought a green onion pancake for only $1!!  It wasn't that good though, it needs some kind of sauce.  But hey, if you're hungry it's only a buck!

Down the street was the food court where the restaurant was.  Don't blink cause you're gonna miss it!  We almost did...

Only 3 bucks for the sandwich!  If you like cumin, you're gonna love this sandwich.  It was a little spicy I could only take a couple of  bites before my mouth was on fire. A guy on Yelp recommended the noodles, they were ok.  They were fresh noodles though, so that was nice.  After we ordered them we saw another picture with oxtail and the noodles.  We shoulda got that instead.

Back on the subway...

We stopped by Bryant Park and I noticed these old Jewish men were playing what I thought was Bacci ball (cause I'm such an expert, I've photographed an event before...hahahaha!) but I was wrong!

 They were playing something called Petanque. Whatever. I think it's Bocci ball in a different language.

 NY Public Library...I heard it's beautiful inside. Couldn't go in. They were closed today :(

 Took some long exposure shots in Grand Central Station.  I thought they came out kinda neat.  The people look like ghosts!

 Regular shot

 We also went to see Avenue Q tonight. If you haven't seen it, you should! It's hilarious!
 We did get caught in a little rain storm walking to the theatre, but when we came out, it was dry.  Hope it stays that way :)

**Sorry, this stupid blog is driving me bonkers tonight.  The settings just don't wanna cooperate and I'm too tired to figure it out.  ugh!

NYC here I come!!

Tuesdsay, September 20, 2011
Brooklyn Bridge, Greenwich Village

Ok, so we're back in New York City...one of my all time favorite places to visit....Marvin found awesome fares back in December so we both jumped at the chance to head back east (Marvin is coming up right after I fly home!)

We're renting an apartment in the village, great location but TEENY-TINY!!  Oh my gawwd, I knew it was gonna be small, but not this small!!

 

We didn't wanna stay in the apartment too long, we'd get claustrophobic.  After we settled in, we went to Lombardi's pizza for lunch...YUMMMMMM! But I didn't bring my camera with me.  I was too tired to drag it along. We came back to nap then headed out again, this time to get some night shots of the Brooklyn Bridge.  

It was a cloudy night so I kinda like the way these came out.  It kinda sucked that I didn't have a tripod and I was on a bridge that was shaking!

 We looked at the time and noticed that it was 9:30 already and we haven't eaten dinner yet.  We went back to the village to Employees Only (This is a great bar that my co-worker Stoja recommends, they have awesome Pisco Sours!) to grab a drink before dinner then headed across the street to Cowgirl.  It was a cute restaurant, they serve a lot of comfort food.  I ate the mac and cheese, and Randy had the chicken fried chicken.  I didn't take any pics of the food, sorry, but I did get a picture of my yummmmy prickly pear margarita! Aren't those little cows the cutest??

 Ok, it's 1:00 in the morning, time for me to get some sleep.  It's supposed to thunderstorm tomorrow :(  Wish me luck!

Poor doggy...

I don't normally post you tube videos two days in a row but I thought this was really cute...this dog really wanted this "man" to throw the stick for him!

Bosox fans are the best!

A friend of mine posted this on Facebook...so cute. It was Disability Awareness Day at Fenway Park and the awesome fans at Fenway helped out this one boy as he struggled through the national anthem...

Kohailani

Sunday, September 11, 2011
Kalihi Valley

Kohailani was born on June 23 to proud parents Fredee and La'anui.  When Fredee asked me to take her baby pics I jumped at the chance cause it was another opportunity for Jalna and I to bus' out her beanies and headbands!  Poor Kohailani, she was a trooper, even when Jalna shoved the beanies on her head that didn't quite fit right...

She looks just like her daddy!!

 She realllly didn't like this one! hahaha!

 Here she is with big brothers Brody and Brayton.  And, no, I still can't tell them apart.

Remembering 9/11...

September 19, 2001
New York City

I had flew into New Jersey from Boston on September 8, 2001 and I wasn't scheduled to start work until that following Friday, the 14th.  Since I had some time on my hands I made plans to meet up with a friend of mine in Washington DC to do some shopping and hang out.  So I left early Tuesday morning and headed off to Washington DC.  I was listening to CDs since I didn't wanna bother looking for a good radio station.  A few hours into my drive my sister had called me and asked me if I was still planning on my road trip.  I said yeah, and that I was half way there.  She said "I think you should turn around, the World Trade Center is on fire..." then I said "but that's in the opposite direction." "But the pentagon is on fire too..." I hung up with her and drove back to New Jersey. 

I started work that Friday and it was really somber.  My shifts were Fri-Mon so I had Tues-Thurs off.  I had made some friends early and I asked them if they wanted to go with me to the city to check it out.  Here's what I saw:

 Union Square -- memorial for the victims

 
 Ironically, I'm flying out on September 19 back to NYC...