The Zereps

today we tried to fit some fun in, and since we have a limited number of weekends left here in ny, we decided to go ice skating in central park. but when we were faced with the ice skating rink, tons of people, loud music, and a nearly $50 fee, we decided to soak up the ambiance elsewhere. which basically means we sat in the checkers pavillion and watched people, dogs, squirrels, and a neighboring photo shoot. 🙂

oops, sorry guys! cheryl’s spot in the live chat made me realize that maybe not everybody knows what our plans are. and since they’re official, we feel comfortable in making them public. 🙂 eric and i are moving to colorado next month! yaaay! that’s why i took a quick trip out there last weekend, so scout out living situations, areas, distances, etc. and alot of details are still up in the air right now, but we *are* going to be rolling on out of new york in december. and i’ll admit, it’s going to be bittersweet, because although we totally love where we’re moving to, we’ve made some really nice friends here and, to be quite honest, new york wormed its way into our hearts. we may complain and moan about certain aspects of city life, but there’s just nothing else like new york city! and if we could, we would totally own/rent a second apartment/house here in the city (we’ve already talked about it…hehe).

so while we’re very excited to move back to a more rural lifestyle, we’ll actually miss new york very much. and though we won’t miss the communal germs and homeless people on the subway or the drunk guy falling down on the bus, we will totally miss the overall feeling and experience that is new york (okay, maybe we’ll miss the homeless people, too, and *maybe* the drunk guy, cause it’s not everywhere where a drunk guy does a face-plant on the bus and people *actually* help him up and ask if he’s allright with genuine concern and humor).

in closing, if we win the lottery, new york city is the first place we’d buy an apartment in! and it hasn’t seen the last of us, not by a long shot! 😀

for all concerned parties, i’m home! after driving in a blizzard, camping over 9 hours in the denver airport (to save hotel money, and then my flight was delayed 2.5 extra hours), circling FOREVER over JFK, and a cab ride with INSANE traffic…..i’m hoooome!

and i must say that i missed my hubby and my puppy very much! and i think i’m getting sick…

toodles! 😀

…on the car…..where’s the nearest coffee bar?

where am i and why am i shopping at walmart and driving a gas-guzzling behemouth SUV??

and a big thank you to shannon who sent us a box of very yummy sugar cookies last week!

jabba helped me open the box!

and i’m pooped! i traveled with tiffany to the airport this morning at 4 to say goodbye then rode 3 trains and a bus to get home and i’m tuckered out. it’s really exhausting to do so many things here in the city. it takes FOREVER to do just one thing!

check out the new gallery album i added with all the pics here!

anyhoo…after the MARTHA show on thursday, tiffany and i were ready to have some super yummy food. friday started off with…get this….a CELEBRITY CITING!!! we were in a cute, expensive little baby boutique on the upper east and guess who was outside?! *joey fatone*! hehehehehe! he was shooting the breeze with another guy outside, waiting for a woman and kid who were shopping inside. tiffany, who’s a professional celebrity-spotter, noticed him when we walked in. we tried to play it cool, too. 😉 however we couldn’t dwell on his n*sync-ness forever, so we headed over to serendipity3 for a delectible lunch, including frrrrrozen hot chocolate and blackout cake. the place is totally cute! i’ve never heard of it, but i guess it was in the movie ‘serendipity.’ i’ll totally go back and take eric. friday afternoon consisted of shopping and then we made it to chocolate bar for some tasty chocolates and then stumbled upon tea and sympathy, a little tea shop and restaurant i’ve been wanting to patronize. i had a veggie sheperds pie and she had a quiche…both very yummy. after we ate we headed home…totally exhausted, too!

after a nice nights sleep, we got an early start saturday to ride the staten island ferry for a glimpse of the statue of liberty. after much picture snapping, we headed to lombardi’s in soho, the oldest, lisenced, pizzaria in NYC. the pizza was really good, btw, despite the big blackened pimple on the crust. 🙂 the afternoon consisted of touristy shops in times square and tiffany’s first taste of ‘nutz 4 nutz’…mmmm….and time square being what it is, we couldn’t take much of the crazy crowds, so we headed home for a scary movie (‘the gift’) and take-out, and crumb cake. f.a.o. schwartz was also visited, but neither of us were very impressed. it was small and kinda run-down, nothing like it was in the movie ‘big’ with tom hanks.

sunday started very early, too. before lunch we visited the met, “the” museum on the park. we perused through the egyptian art gallery for a few hours and snapped lots of pictures of eyes. (tiffany really likes the eye symbol, btw, hence the many cool, pictures) afte we grabbed lunch real quick, we headed for the park. the weather lately has been really great, windy and cool. yesterday was no exception…the mall, bethesda terrace and nutz 4 nutz were all great. 😀 hehe…theeeeeen we walked down to tiffany and co. for a small purchase by tiffany (and no purchase by me).

we also walked alot, rode the bus alot and took the train alot…getting around took as much time as actually having the fun! but worth it!

anyhoo…i’m really glad tiffany was able to come and visit us! we had lots of fun. and now i’m super tired and me and jabba are going to take a nap!

a piece of a face

spooooky statue

nice day for the park

i made a new album of the whole (almost) vacation, nearly 100 pics! check it out here!

oh, and i saw tiffany and myself on MARTHA today! it was hillarious!

for those of you who don’t know, my cousin tiffany is visiting me this weekend from nevada. yay! she got here late wednesday night…late late! and after a short night of sleep we hit the town to go see one of my heros, martha stewart!

some lady was nice enough to take a picture of us, with the cool set in the background!

and heeeeeerrrreee’s martha! (who was looking very slim and trim, btw)

oh, and no freebies this time! 🙁 i did, however, manage to make an arse of myself enough to snag a bag of milk duds, from joey, the comedian in charge of keeping the crowd happy) afterwards, we went to alice’s tea cup on the upper east.

here’s a winking tiffany with our ‘mad hatter’s lunch’…mmmm….pumpkin scones….tea…sammies and creme brulee! super yum!

more to follow!

oh! and wednesday night was also a small shin-dig for the people he works with at a little place called “askew” (sorry no link, it’s being lame-o). we were agents mulder and scully from the x-files, with real badges and even a fake, real-looking gun!

and here’s the real deal: