Catching Up

This is not the first time I've had to do a "catch up" post. Here are a few pics of the past two weeks since the last blog post.

Ok so we've had a few Oliver requests, so to oblige, here's how our puppy is doing. First off, he's grown a TON. And we discovered that he's not the "mini dachshund" as advertised. Definitely too big to be a mini. But he's great to have around the house, loves playing with the boys, and if we could just get him to stop chewing up Kristal's shoes, we'd be in great shape!




Now a few random pics. Here is me at "work" (at home). Doing what I do out here, I split my time between being in suits, and in jeans and a sweatshirt (notice my Vermont souvenir!):


Here's Miles and Mom:


OK so last weekend, Miles' piano teacher invited us to a performance she was participating in at a music school in Manhattan. Upon researching it, turns out this place, Greenwich House, in Greenwich Village, is a 100 year old music school, who's alumni include John Cage and Henry Cowell. This place is an institution in Manhattan, and it was very cool to have the opportunity to visit. Miles' piano teacher is a soprano, and was singing children's songs. It was a great recital, the boys really enjoyed it.



The plan was to visit Greenwich House for the recital, then do a walking tour of Greenwich Village. I mapped it all out, and all the sights we were going to see. Unfortunately, we got rained out! So since we had driven, we took a detour home over the Brooklyn Bridge:




I couldn't help but comment to Kristal how much steel actually comprises the bridge. It seems to me there was an awful lot of "extra steel" if there can be such a thing. Take a look at this picture:

See that? There are beams, cross beams, extra support lines, more beams, random fan-looking-structures of steel, and more beams. :-) Oh well, am I a structural engineer? No.

Anyways, after coming back from Brooklyn, we were hungry, so decided to land right back where we started, Greenwich Village, for dinner, at a funny place called Jekyll and Hyde's. For some reason we didn't take any pictures of the place, but it was a Horror-themed restaurant. So there was creepy stuff everywhere, the lights were so dim you could barely see, they played creepy music, etc. Most of it was tongue-in-cheek, and actually quite funny (i.e. think Monster Mash), but pretty cool. And not a complete rip-off like Midtown theme restaurants.

As we were walking back to the car, the boys stumbled across this gem -- a narrow doorway leading to who-knows-where with the coolest street addresses: