Flat Bailey

This week in the mail we had a visit from Flat Bailey. Bailey is my cousin and at school they are reading Flat Stanley. It is a story about a boy who accidently gets flattened by his bulletin board and travels to California by mail. So Bailey flatened himself and came for a visit in NYC. Now he is on his way to Maryland to visit Brian's parents. Thanks for the visit Flat Bailey.

Winter's Eve

Monday night was Winter's Eve on the upper west side. Winter's Eve went from Lincoln Center to Columbus Circle. It started with the tree lighting at Lincoln Square. There were 10 blocks of food booths, entertainment, and shopping. We had such a good time eating turkey stew, mini burgers, coffee cake, and pasta. The Big Apple Circus band was playing on one block and Kevin Bacon's band on another. The Columbus Circle shops had a star light show with snow falling from the sky, you can see it in the background of the toy soldier stilt walkers. Christmas time is so much fun in New York City because there are so many fun events to attend.

Das Boot

Last weekend we went to this restaurant on the upper east side called Heidelberg with a fellow intern and a bunch of his friends. Brian has wanted to go there ever since we walked by it one day about 3 months ago. If you ave seen the movie BeerFest then you know what a Das Boot is. For those of you who are like what is she talking about, it is a glass boot that holds 2 liters of beer. Heidelberg is a German restaurant that serves the 2 liter boots. They only have a certain amout of them so you have to give a cash deposit of $60 when you order in case you break or steal the boot. We had a great time eating brats and drinking boots.

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Foster is Back

Foster went to Maryland to spend sometime with his Grandparents for the past month. He started to get really nervous when we went outside so we thought he needed a vacation from the city. The vet said everything with Foster is fine but he may just need breaks from the city noise every once in a while. Good thing his Grandparents love him so much (they really want to keep him but will settle for frequent visits.) We love Foster so much and we are glad we have our cuddle dog back.

Even Foster loves Christmas, after all he was a Christmas Present

With his Grandma at Thanksgiving

Christmas Decorating

We always decorate the weekend after Thanksgiving for Christmas and break out the Christmas music. I love Christmas decorations and I have several boxes and bins of decorations. I was sad thinking that we would not be able to decorate this year so Mrs. Schulz said that she would bring some of our decorations to us that we stored in her basement. Normally it takes us the whole weekend to decorate but this year we finished in 3 hours. Here are some photos of the most decked out apartment in NYC.

Happy Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving this year we went to Philly and Brian's mom hosted dinner at his Grandma's house. It was a wonderful meal; Brian's dad made the stuffing, I did the sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes and Mrs. Schulz cooked the big bird and the other sides. Everything was so delicious. It was great to see Brian's Grandma and all his family that lives in Philly. Andrew also came intown but we missed Stephen. Stephen is living the bachelor life in Lake Tahoe; hopefully we will get out there to visit him durring ski season. The only bummer for the boys about Grandma's house was that we only had one good TV channel so no football. We did get the Macy's parade but then watched movies the rest of the day. I was so thankful that Brian had the day off; we really got lucky this year that Brian does not have to work on Christmas either.

We missed all our family in Louisville. I especially missed celebrating Lindsey's birthday. We usually have a cake at Thanksgiving for her birthday because it is so close to Thanksgiving. I hope you had a great birthday Lindsey Loo, Happy 18th. Next year we might do turkey day in NYC so that we can go to the parade and then shop in New York on Black Friday, if you can't find great gifts in NYC then good luck. We hope all our friends and family had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

In the Holiday Spirit

I know I have been away from the blog lately because we have been so busy.  I am going to try and catch you up starting from the weekend before Thanksgiving.  Brian and I were getting excited about the holidays and we decided to go out shopping.  We went to the holiday shops at Bryant Park.  It was so cold but we had a great time looking at all the stuff. Then we went to Rockefeller Center and you can kind of see in the picture that they were putting up the Christmas tree so it had scaffolding around it. I can't wait to see it all lit up. It was a great weekend and it made us super excited for Christmas time.