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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ………..
We spent about a week in New Jersey and New York and it may take that long to recover. Since today is Liz’s birthday, we’re going to be a little selfish and stick to a bulleted list of events followed by a photo journal. Really, this should say it all …….
- Thursday, 6/25: Arrive at Uncle’s house in NJ
- Friday, 6/26: Wake at the crack of dawn to drive to Secaucus for Millionaire Mind Intensive
- Friday 9am through Sunday 7pm: Attend seminar, partially with our good pal Carrie, unable to reveal details of experience (seriously)
- Monday, 6/29: Hang out at Uncle’s house, recover from looooong weekend
- Tuesday, 6/30: Take train into NYC, check into our cheap Chelsea Hotel, begin walking
- Wednesday, 7/1: Notice we’re starting to get sick but still spend the entire day walking and walking and walking, oh and see the Statue of Liberty and the Financial District
- Thursday, 7/2: In spite of increased illness continue trudging; tour the Met and Central Park and go to the Top of the Rock; later go to dinner at Otto and see some funky hole-in-the-wall jazz with good pal Megan
- Friday, 7/3: Return via train to NJ and just chill; set off fireworks in the back yard
- Saturday, 7/4: Drive to Westchester County to visit the cousins and set more fireworks on the porch
- Sunday, 7/5: Exit NY, hello RI (again)! Still sick, frogs croaking away in throats ……
Our favorite macrobiotic restaurant on Greenwich
Liz posing in Washington Square Park
Lady Liberty's guardians
Self-portrait with SoL
The Bull Market
Chris feels right at home ....
We're two ships that pass Fulton Market
Where else but Chinatown?
Caught in the rain ... just like Carrie in "I Heart NY"
30 Rock ...
More from Top of the Rock
Is that Mikhail Baryshnikov playing the funky jazzy bass?
Liz and Megan and a massage parlor
Back in NJ ... with the fam
Making our own fireworks display
So we’re a little behind in our blog entries, what’s new? Our trusty readership has certainly noticed that it’s been over a week since our last post, so we’ll try to make up the time as well as we can. Let’s see, where were we? That’s right – we’d just skated by the authorities and crossed the border into Vermont. We headed towards Burlington, where we were meeting up with a couple of Liz’s old work pals, Kevin and Tim. We were pumped to try what Kevin had described in his txt as “the best pizza ever” and unwind from our hasty whirlwind trip through Canada.
We arrived at Kevin’s place outside of Burlington, where we were greeted with Vermont cheddah and crackers that were topped nicely with Grandma Jane’s chutney. After a little catching up and gazing at Lake Champlain, we piled into the truck and picked up Tim for some good old fashioned gallivanting in town. We got the classic auto tour of the city and Kevin walked us through Intervale Community Farm with 14 acres of organic beds and compost before meandering through downtown and eventually making it to American Flatbread and its famous pizzas from the woodburning oven. We reminisced about our past as misfits in Atlanta (Kev – please send us that pic if you have it, couldn’t find it anywhere) and had a generally merry time.
The next morning we caught an awesome breakfast in town at Penny Cluse Cafe to fuel up for our drive to Newport, RI. We were there to visit family and to spend a good amount of time catching up on all the cable shows we’d missed on the road. After 3 days planted on the couch with the dogs and a couple of home-cooked macrobiotic meals, we were refreshed and ready to hit the road again, this time to New Jersey. Not much sightseeing, but we were about to make up for that in droves….
Chris challenges Bishop to a game of rings
Family self-portrait with pups
