Goodbye East Village, Hello Fort Greene!

Well, our year in Manhattan has been wonderful, noisy, exciting, lively, noisy, and interesting. The East Village is a gluttons paradise because everything you could ever want is right out your door waiting for you. It's easy to get to most neighborhoods from there, and best of all it was a 15 minute WALK to work for me. But, alas, we are ready for a change - somewhere new to explore and get to know.... and that place will be Fort Greene.

Message to Emmy!!!!!!!!

Central Park

Luck a the Irish!

Well, St. Patty's definitely wasn't the same this year without Emily and it was on a Monday so nobody could go to the parade. Lucy, Jeff, Chris and I went to Ryans Irish Pub around the corner from our place for a few pints of Guiness and Harp

Empire in Green

The time I saved the day.

Union Square. Uptown N tracks at the stroke of 10. Trash... on FIRE!!!!! I ran up the stairs, through the turnstile and told the lady that there was trash on fire. Not 5 minutes later there was a guy with an extinguisher putting it out- look at all the smoke!

My beautiful god daughter Dahlia Echo Chaffee!!!

Born on March 8, 2008

Her frowny face is almost as good as mine

Belly button cork

Mommy and baby

Shooot her!!!!!

Perhaps my favorite thing I've done while in New York was this amazing play reconstructing one of the best movies ever made using cardboard and over-dramatic speeches. WHAM City, a theater troupe out of Baltimore performed their own rendition of Jurassic Park- half parody, half homage. Chris, Chris Burns, and I waited patiently on the floor of this Bushwick, Brooklyn space cross-legged and enjoying our cocktails for the show to begin. It was kind of a big creepy triangular shaped room with scary lighting and excitement in the air. The show was hilarious- they did all the good scenes, all the good lines and even put words to the theme song - yay! I am so happy to have found the words, here they are for you to memorize and sing along to :)

I thought that John Hammond and Ian Malcolm were played particular well and just enough over the top to be awesome. The paper mache T-rex was dazzling. As we said many times, this is the kind of things we're going to miss when we leave New York!