Macy's Day Parade Preview

Today Brian's parents came into the city for the Thanksgiving weekend. Tonight we went to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon preview. It was a really fun and cool way to see the balloons without actually getting up early and going to the parade. The balloons were tied down so some of them were a little difficult to see but they were so big and it really got me in the Thanksgiving spirit. We even saw Mayor Bloomberg filming a segment for the news. Enjoy the preview and look for these guys tomorrow morning marching down the streets of NY.

Golden Weekend

This weekend was so nice because Brian had what they call a "golden weekend." That is where you are on call on Thursday night and then have Friday-Sunday off. On Friday we went to see New Moon and then met up with his friends from work to celebrate Kevin's Birthday. Kevin is in Brian's year of interns. We started at this dive bar called The Blue Donkey. I'm not sure why we went here because it is such a dive, but it was empty and we had a big group of people so there was plenty of room and we could actually hear each other speak. Later we went to another place called Prohibition and they had the best Michael Jackson cover band. If you weren't looking at the band you might have thought you were at a MJ concert. They also brought out the most delicious warm chocolate brownie with ice cream for Kevin's birthday. It was a pretty fun night. The rest of the weekend we watched sports (football and the upsetting MLS Cup soccer game), went to church, relaxed, and cleaned for Thanksgiving. It was a great weekend and I can't wait until Brian always has his weekends off.

This is Kevin the Birthday Boy & his girlfriend Lauren

I think Bob was a little tired in this picture

Foster Update

Last Friday Brian was off so we took the day and went to visit Foster. He was in Philly with Brian's mom at his grandmas house since Brian's dad has been out of town with work for two weeks. We have been missing Foster a lot so this was a good chance to get some much needed cuddle time in. Brian's mom was also very nice to bring our Christmas decorations to us that we keep stored in her basement, otherwise there would be no decorations in the Schulz apartment, a very sad thought. Here are some photos of the best dog ever.

Such a baby

He loves to smile and pose for the camera

Look who is in the NYC Marathon

Last Sunday while Megan was in town the NYC Marathon was going on. This year we had awesome front row seats. At about mile 15 the runners turn from the Queensborough Bridge and onto First Avenue. Since our apartment overlooks First Avenue we had a great view. We were able to see the first place men and women run through and then rest of the pack. But once we were ready to go out for the day it was a dilemma to figure out how we were going to cross the marathon. So we decided to join the runners. Maybe next year we will be cheering on Brian.

The Lead Women

The Lead Men

The Pack

Here We Come

Go Yankees!

Last night we had a lot of fun celebrating the Yankees, World Series Champions. We were at a sports bar with several of Brian's co-residents. Everyone was so hype and crazy after they won. They were playing great NY music and everyone in the bar was chanting Yankees or Jeter or A-Rod etc.. all night. It's fun when you get to celebrate in the city of the Champions. Brian and his friends were especially excited since their department and hospital are the team doctors for the Yankees.

The table behind ours were true Yankees fans

for life and they all had these tattoos on their backs

Halloween in NYC

Halloween in NYC is an experience. On any normal given day you really don't know what you could come across in the city so just imagine what Halloween is like. On Halloween we went on a guided haunted walking tour. It was raining for half of the tour so I don't have any pictures of us but I do have pictures of some great costumes that we came across. One thing that I don't understand is why girls have to dress up so provocatively. I can't tell you how many risk-ay policeman, firefighters, devils, nurses, etc... PUT SOME CLOTHES ON is what I wanted to say to them. You can still be cute when you wear clothes. Anyways that was my one issue with Halloween. We had a good time and tried to get scared but most of the time we just ended up laughing.

Here is our Single Lady this guy was hilarious

I know the picture is dark but he is holding up his ring

Lloyd Christmas he even had orange shoes on

and a Leprechaun

Stevenson Girls Visit

This past weekend was so much fun. Megan, Whitney and Donna came for a long weekend visit. We did so much including: shopping, a street fair, Halloween haunted tour, eating out, Broadway show, watching the marathon, Central Park, Chinatown and probably more. I was so glad I got to spend time with Megan especially since she is going to have a baby at the end of February and the next time she comes to visit we will have a little one with us. We found a couple of cute little things for the baby including an I Love NY onesie. It felt like when we were in college again because we always had Donna and Whitney come for visits. Its was a great girls weekend and you guys can come back any time.

At the Street Fair

At Otto Restaurant Mario Batali's restaurant

and we saw him there in his famous orange Crocks

It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

Brunch at Tavern on the Green

In Times Square after seeing West Side Story