Letters of Intent

 

 

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Dear NY Lawmakers,

I don’t know whose idea it was to make it a law that restaurants are required to post the amount of calories that each item they serve on their menu contains, but I’m here to tell you that it is a terrible idea.  I can’t tell you how many times you ruined the dining experience for me while I was deciding which delicious entree and dessert to consume.  I much prefer to eat my meals blissfully ignorant of how many calories each bite contains.  Maybe this is why San Antonio is one of the fattest cities in the nation, but I’d rather be fat and happy than eating with guilt.

  

Love,

The girl who loves her carbs washed down with dessert.

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Dear Nolan,

Seriously boy, when are you going to learn to quit the first time you’re told?  Repeatedly hearing Jakob scream “STOP!” at you irritates me to no end.  I don’t understand why you have to be hurt in order to change your behavior.  Jakob knows this little rule too and has taken to slugging you as soon as you start teasing and honestly, I have a very hard time punishing him when you tease mercilessly.  If you do this at school when you start Kindergarten next month you are going to have some serious problems.  Lets fix this behavior now before I have to be embarrassed by a phone call from the principal, OK?

Love,

Mom  

Ra Ra-ah-ah-ah

Day 3 in NYC found us on the subway headed to Brooklyn.

 

Our first stop once in Brooklyn was to continue our quest of gaining eleventy hundred pounds.  We worked hard at that goal on a daily basis.  Lombardi’s knew just how to help us out.

 

If you are ever near Brooklyn, make a stop here.  Their pizza sauce is the perfect combination of light, tangy, and sweet and in combination with the handmade dough and salty toppings…  MMMmmmmmm.  Make sure you have cash though, they don’t take anything else for payment.  Chris ordered a large for just the two of us.  We ate every bite.

 

In an attempt to try and overeat again at dinner (we like to plan ahead), we did some sight-seeing on foot.  There’s a big True Story Tuesday post waiting to be written about a celebrity sighting in this lovely town, but I am waiting to hear back from some tabloid magazines about buying my picture. (Yes, I’m that person.)   So for now I will refrain from posting the shot.

But I did stop and take these shots with Brian in mind again.  I took this one first:

This one came only seconds later.  Notice the sudden number of firemen who are seemingly interested in what is going on near me.  That would be because the celebrity was standing behind me waiting for their turn to take a picture with the firemen.

Yup, this was big time folks.  No it wasn’t George Clooney.  Had it been, I might be in jail right now instead of writing this post.  We continued on to the Brooklyn Bridge with me singing: 

Ra Ra-ah-ah-ah
Roma Roma-ma
GaGa
Oh la-la

   

We then hopped back on the sVbway (I just laughed and laughed at that.  It’s the little things in life, ya know?)

And headed to the Staten Island Ferry.  We did this because 1. It was free.  2. I did not want to wait in line for The Statue of Liberty like we did for The Empire State Building. 3. It was free.  I got great pictures of Manhatten Island and The Statue of Liberty from the ferry.  Well through the smog that is.

We also visited Ground Zero which I am going to save for a post all by itself.  I feel it deserves it.

On the way back to Times Square we made a stop at FAO Schwarz.

I took lots of pictures to show the boys everything we didn’t buy them.  And we laughed hysterically at the thought of this ‘cause we’re such awesome parents.

  

We walked through the baby section and I thought about Brandi and her little princess:

Checked out the famous piano from Big:

And then we laughed some more about all the toys our boys would love to have.

 

Dinner that night was at a chain restaurant, which we normally wouldn’t patron but was excellent regardless.

The food was fabulous and if there was a restaurant near me I’d be frequenting it regularly.

 

After dinner we walked back through Times Square.

And lived through the makings of another True Story Tuesday while we waited for the rain to pass so we could return to our hotel and prepare ourselves for our final day in the city.

Mr. D Loves the Yankees

This is the post Mr. D has been waiting for.  He is definitely the biggest Yankees fan that I know of.  If you have any memorabilia or  pictures be sure to let him know.  He’d be happy to discuss purchasing your Yankees stuff!  I think his favorite player is Jeter, so if you have any Jeter stuff definitely contact him!

 

Oh my blue blazes, never again will I scoff at northerners for saying it is hot.  This southern girl has been schooled.  Big time.  It was so freakin’ hot in Boston and NYC and I will be the first to tell you that I did not handle it well.  At all.  The humidity along with the 90 degree temperatures just about did me in.  A particularly bad day in which I was seeking shelter and bags of ice (literally) was at the Rays vs Yankees game where we sat in the sun for 4.5 long hours. 

We had fantastic seats for viewing the game:

 

And even better seats for batting practice.  Chris got another ball to go along with the two we got at Fenway Park. 

The new Yankee Stadium is beautiful.

 

But Red Sox games are definitely more enjoyable.  The atmosphere and the fans make a Red Sox game an event, not just a game.  However, that is not to say that it is not amazing to see athletes like Jeter, A-Rod, Swisher, and even Mariano Rivera play. 

 

The excitement was palatable when Rivera ran out to the mound to throw one pitch to end the game.

And like the true ball fans we are, we stopped and watched a softball game in Central Park on the way back to our hotel after the Yankees game.

Chris decided to show off his tan lines while we walked in the spongy grass.  (10 bloggy points to the first person to tell me what movie that references.)

The shade and cool grass was so welcoming that I had a hard time convincing myself that we should get up and get moving so that we wouldn’t be eating dinner at midnight.

It wasn’t quite midnight by the time we made it to the restaurant, but I do think we were eating an enormous BLT and more cheesecake at 10:00 at night.  Yup, right on track to gaining that eleventy hundred pounds we were aiming for. 

NYC is a lot like Vegas though in that the city never sleeps.  We definitely were not the only ones doing our best to gain enough weight that we would need to purchase two seats for the plane ride home.  Time Square was filled with gluttons just like us.  However, unlike all the people in this shot, we returned to our hotel and called it a night before the day actually turned into tomorrow.