Saturday

We had a busy Saturday yesterday. In fact 24 pictures worth of busy Saturday.

First things first though. Couple of days ago the boys got new shoes. Predictably, miles stuck with Converse (his favorite kind of shoe), and Damion stuck with orange:




OK so on to yesterday!

First the boys and I made breakfast. We made bacon and pancakes:






Miles made plain, Damion made blueberry. They weren't bad either!

We had plans to go into the city for lunch. Lunch at this point was going to be around 3pm at the rate we were going because breakfast took so long, but that's ok. Kristal found "the best fish and chips" in NYC, a place called A Salt and Battery. Not only was this rated very high, but it was featured on that Food Network show "Throwdown with Bobby Flay." This is where Bobby Flay rolls into the "best of the best" of things (Fish and Chips, Pizza, etc...) and tries to beat them with his own recipes. Apparently A Salt and Battery actually beat him!

The place was TINY, only sat six people. We lucked out and got three chairs, and ate our fish and chips. Honestly, kristal and the boys didn't really care for them. I think that's because we got different kinds of fish than usual, but I really liked them. Of course, I like nearly all fish and chips. :-)

We walked around Greenwich Village for about an hour, ducking into different shops, and managed to take zero pictures except for one shop. It was a baby store with hilarious onesies for babies:





There was also a really cool tea place that we will visit next time we're in the area:


Our good friends Tom and Lisa have a daughter named Mckenna so we thought this was funny:


We'll keep an eye out for Ari's Pub next time! :-)

So with no more pictures of Greenwich Village, we made our way home. Here's out at the Hoboken train station and ferry terminal:


And on the lite rail going home:



All of a sudden with all this talk of trains I figured I'd clarify our situation. We're on the NW side of Hoboken which is on the opposite side of the terminal. The Hoboken terminal is a 12-track train station that feeds into all over Jersey. Also at the terminal is the Path train which is a subway system that goes under the Hudson between Jersey and New York. Also at the terminal is a lite rail stop, and the lite rail runs along west of Hoboken, Jersey City, etc.

Since we're on the opposite side of Jersey from the terminal, it's a good 1.2-3 mile walk there. Not convenient, but not unquestionable either. It's about a 20 minute walk. Anyhow, conveniently there is a lite rail stop about 3 blocks from us, which goes to the terminal. This is super easy, but really doesn't save much time given wait times for the train and transit times. So, net net, the time is about the same, it just depends on how much walking you want to do.

Once at the terminal, you can either take the path train in to the city or the ferry. We still haven't taken the ferry, mainly because the path is so convenient and runs all the time. Very little waiting!

OK so back to our Saturday. We came home and bummed around for a while. Miles got a really cool magnet mosaic set from Sean and Deborah (I work with Sean and he's a good friend of mine here). So as a thank you, Miles created this:


At around 5, Kebra asked if Kristal and I wanted to go out and do something. Seemed like a great idea to us! So I hopped on Time Out and did a search for stuff going on in the city last night -- 578 options! Cool, we should be able to find something to do!

We settled on a burlesque show at The Slipper Room. Supposedly the longest-running burlesque show in New York. Don't know about that, but it was really cool! It was down in the Lower East Side:



In fact, the subway stop for us comes right up two blocks from Katz's Deli, the best pastrami and corned beef in the city!! I've blogged about that before. It's nice to know it's so easy to get there.

Again, there was a sorry lack of pictures from last night, but here are a few. Clearly Kristal was causing people to question all night what in the world a hottie like her was hanging out with a loser like me! :-)

Until next time!