Sunday, December 13, 2009

thanksgiving a little late…

i wanted to put these pictures up before it gets too late and it never happens. We had a great time over Thanksgiving in the greatest city there is. We met up with Julie’s brother and his wife (Bryan and Lis) and stayed at Noah’s place…he and his fam were in Houston for the weekend, so they were nice enough to let us stay at his place. I’m not sure there is a nicer couple on earth than Noah and Kristi. We are digging the fact that we are only a bus ride away from those guys.

So we met up there and had a great time. There is a Costco in Manhattan now! Just like a 10 minute bus ride from Noah’s place, so we headed up there to check it out. It was an unusual Costco experience, the employees were so helpful and so excited to have us there (pretty sure the idea of Costco is a brand new concept to them), and they spoke English. At the Costco in Arlington close by us here, most the people aren’t super fluent when it comes to English. Anyway, we found a turkey and all the fixins and made our first attempt at cooking a turkey. So I spent a lot of time on the phone with my mom trying to figure out how exactly to do it. I have a gag reflex problem sometimes, so I consider it quite a feat. Let’s face it, that raw turkey is NASTY. And I loved that they left the giblets and the neck in there just in case we wanted to eat them. Who the heck eats giblets? But I must say, with the help of everyone, we put together quite a feast…the turkey was actually really good too.

Before we ate we headed down with the masses to see the Macy’s Parade, which was awesome. It’s always cool to see something in real life that you’ve seen on TV every year. There were so many people there, that by the time we squirmed our way up to where you could actually see stuff, we only got to see the last 30 minutes or so. But that was good for us. We saw papa smurf and the pillsbury doughboy, and Santa on his huge old sleigh. Pretty sure it was the real Santa.

IMG_8856 IMG_8867 IMG_8868 IMG_8871 IMG_8875

We went back to Noah’s place after and started cooking. Turned out pretty nice.

IMG_8893 IMG_8895 IMG_8896

We spent the rest of the weekend showing Bryx and Lis our favorite spot around the city, and eating at all of our favorite spots. Here are some pics of the stops. The Brooklyn Bridge: one of my favorite spots in the city.

IMG_8918 IMG_8925

The East Village for some Falafel and Frites and weird people.

IMG_8931

The Met and the MoMA

IMG_8928

Rockefeller – home of some of the best Christmas spirit around.

IMG_8937 

Staten Island Ferry

IMG_8947

Bar Coastal for the best wings around and watching the Cougs pull it out against the U with some good Coors LIght.

IMG_8970

and a walk on the High Line. This was our first time up there. Such a cool idea…an elevated park on an old freeway through Chelsea. We were there just in time for the sunset over the Hudson. Google it, it is really amazing.

IMG_8963

and a walk past Madison Square Park and the Flatiron – one of the coolest buildings on this planet.

 IMG_8950 IMG_8948IMG_8951

and lots of time in the subway – a welcome break from the cold wind.

IMG_8882

Can’t beat a weekend in NYC. It was so fun to be there with Bryx and Lis. We made it home and took care of the next matter of business. The Christmas Tree! Can’t tell you how excited I was about this one. There’s nothing quite like when the only light in the room is the faint glow of the Christmas tree. It’s the most wonderful time of the year…there’s just this spirit about everyone everywhere. Hope you are having the Merriest of Christmas seasons!

IMG_8975 IMG_8977

Have you watched Elf yet? Please do if you haven’t.

6 comments:

Jonah and Aja said...

uncle kev always want the giblets. the feast looks great and i hope you dragged julie to curry. i found a web site and ordered a bunch of mie goreng and curry. good deals online. i am gonna get good at curry.

Linda said...

Love this blog! You always make me laugh! Cumon! Send pics of that great apartment, complete with the Christmas Master's decorated tree!

naomi megan. said...

I love the photos from the parade (and all the nyc ones, of course.) Looks like you guys had lots of fun!

P.S. We added Elf to our Netflix queue after our conversation Saturday. We're excited to watch it!

lisa said...

You make me laugh with how excited you are. Just imagine having no christmas! i don't know what i'm going to do...One day i'll make it nyc, one day!

charity eyre wright said...

hey
thanks for calling me with "all i want for christmas is you"
you know me all to well
too bad you are abandoning me for christmas
okay, sorry, that was the last of those lame comments i've been making
can't wait to hang out in january
and you have a fun life.
i want one like it
love you

Anita and Tal said...

nice! we have not found the Elf movie yet but we have seen some great Hindi movies with cool dancing. Thanks .for those shots of "The City"