New York Trip
For those of you that I haven’t already told, I surprised Thomas by planning a trip to New York over this past Easter weekend.
All I told him was that he needed to take Friday off from work. I planned the whole trip weeks before. When we got to the airport Friday morning, I finally told him we were going to New York…he was shocked!
We flew in around noon on Friday. Our hotel was located in midtown, so basically in the heart of the theater district, Times Square, and 5th Avenue. After we checked into the hotel we walked to Central Park. We grabbed a bite to eat at The Green Tavern. You could pay for a ride in a horse and buggy that would take you around the park, so after we had lunch we did that. It was so much fun. We saw Iggy Pop doing a photo shoot on one of the benches. For those of you who don’t follow old rock and roll, he’s a rocker from back in the day (I had no clue either).
That evening we had reservations at Sardis, a cute little restaurant my friend Cat recommended. When we were there we saw two more celebrities…the lady who plays the mom on the TV show, Judging Amy and “David” from One Life to Live, a soap opera on ABC. I actually watch that one over my lunch hour so it was a surreal moment for me. After we were through eating I got enough courage to go over and ask him if he would take a picture with me.
After dinner, we went to see “The Lion King” at the New Amsterdam Theater. It was phenomenal. We really enjoyed it. I highly recommend seeing it. We both agreed it was one of the best Broadway shows we have seen.
I had scheduled a helicopter tour for Saturday, so we did that first thing in the morning. It was fantastic. We got to see a lot of the city. It wasn’t even that scary, only one part where we turned and were tilted sideways…
We spent the rest of Saturday walking around Manhattan. The one part about the trip we could have did without was the waiting in line to go to the top of the Empire State Building. I think we stood in line for close to two hours.
Saturday evening we had tickets to the musical, “The Producers”. It was also very good. After the show ended, we walked through Times Square. It was really neat all lit up. The amount of people out and about blew me away. There were literally crowds of people everywhere you looked.
Our plane left Sunday morning.
It was an awesome trip. Here are a few pics.
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Everyone,
For those of you that tried to access the site over the weekend…sorry….it was down & we were gone (see New York post).
Anyway, we are obviously back up. While I was working on the server, I upgraded the site in a way that most of you don’t care about…but one thing I did do was fix the commenting system, so, now if you post comments, they show up…which is better than them NOT showing up when you try to submit them…
The ‘fix’ that I implemented is pretty gangster though…essentially it disabled the stuff in place that checks to make sure there is not ‘spammed’ comments being automatically submitted to the site (which people do…because they are dumbasses that have nothing better to do)….so, I am going to consider it ‘fixed’ unless the site gets hit hard with comments from one of these programs…you will see the comments if they start happening…
Soooooooo…the point is, check it out…use the ‘Comments’ link…as much as it is bearable to you, it is a way for Jenny & I to know if people are reading the site…and what type of stuff you are interested in hearing about….
Flowers on the Sidewalks
On Saturday Thomas and I took the train down to Chicago for the day. We walked around mostly, stopped at the Cultural Center and Millenium Park. I couldn’t get over the flowers, so many had been planted or were in bloom already! They were beautiful.
Think Your Gas is Expensive?
Here is a site that has the gas prices of the different areas of the US color coded, by county, I think…
It’s pretty interesting. I know I’d have a bike if I lived in California (poor Jeremy)…
Online Color Picker
Here is an interesting online ‘color wheel’. I am always looking for a good place for this type of thing…because I am an idiot when it comes to colors…and I need all the help I can get. Enjoy.
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“The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.”
—taken from ‘Practices of an Agile Developer’, but originates elsewhere, I believe
Smelt O'Rama
Tonight Thomas and I went to the eighth annual Smelt O’Rama. A couple of weeks ago we saw it advertised, so we thought we would check it out. Smelt are little tiny fish…back home they were primarily used for bait…I think. Anywho, a guy started up this event eight years ago. Basically he brings special nets for catching the fish. After they are caught, they are deep fried and served. It all takes place down at the pavilion by the lake. It was something else, let me tell you. We ended up arriving a bit early so we asked if we could help out in anyway, soon I was helping clean the picnic tables off and Thomas took charge of starting the fire. It was an overcast rainy night, so it sprinkled on and off, but that didn’t stop the people from coming. It was fun…but isn’t anything followed by the words “o’rama” usually a good time?