New Yorker (Almost)

 

I Felt Like A New Yorker This Weekend When:

1)  I was asked for directions three times- and I knew what to tell them!  (Well, one time I kind of guessed.  But I was pretty sure.  Let’s hope.)

2)  I was walking on the sidewalk and started fighting my way through a heavy crowd.  I thought- “TOURISTS!  What are they all doing here?”  And then realized that I was standing next to the Empire State Building.

3)  I was pushing my kids on swings at the playground in Brooklyn.  (From Boise to Brooklyn…sounds like a good blog name…)  We were the only Caucasian people in the park, but it didn’t seem strange anymore, and Joseph didn’t even notice.

4)  I stepped over all of the mysterious puddle/streams along the sidewalks of Manhattan (urine?) without hardly even having to look down.

5)  I didn’t even jump when a man next to me started yelling loudly at another man a few floors above us.  In Italian.

6)  I didn’t say “Bless you” every time someone around me sneezed.  Actually, yes I did.  But that’s just polite.

 

Maine Vacation Part 3

 

Hang in there, this is the last one…

Old Orchard Beach, Maine

 

Highlight:  Joseph randomly coming up to hug and kiss me, then running away saying, “I’ll miss you!  Don’t cry!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AND

The Drive

Everything was about a million times prettier in real life

And a shout out from Portland, Maine to our families/friends in Portland, Oregon!  Holla!!

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SUMMARY:

I would move to Maine in a second.  (sorry mom)

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Several times this weekend, I stopped and thought, In this moment I am REALLY and TRULY and PERFECTLY happy.

Maine Vacation PT. 2

 

 

Bradbury Mountain State Park in Pownal, Maine

Highlight:  I was singing “Over the River and Through the Woods” when Joseph stopped, picked up two sticks, and began tapping them along.  For the rest of the hike he tapped.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AND

The Lobster Shack at Cape Elizabeth, Maine

 

 

 

 

 

Maine Vacation

 

Isaac and I were up before everyone else (why, Isaac, why?!)  So we headed down early to see the sun coming up over the water. (Very odd for this west-coaster!)

Joseph could have played at the beach all day, and I would have posted a million more cute pictures of him, if he hadn’t had a full-time stream of green boogers running down his nose.

You’re welcome.

Pumpkin Patch 2010

 

We just got back late last night from a little spur-of-the moment weekend trip to Maine!

The New England fall colors were on my lifetime “to see” list, and lo-and-behold, here I am in New York!

So, we found a VERY cheap hotel (surprisingly nice, if you don’t mind trains barreling past your window at all hours of the night), printed out some directions and we went!

First off, we stopped in Redding, Connecticut to pick up some pumpkins.  A place I never thought that I would visit, but it was absolutely GORGEOUS!!

 

I tried to narrow down the pictures a little, but come on!! 

Pumpkins + fall colors + fat baby in a pumpkin hat

= GAAAAAHHHH!! 

(my its-too-cute-I-can’t-stand-it sound.  Rhymes with Baaah.)

Plus my mom and my mother-in-law love them all, I promise.

So, if you are not them, feel free to skim.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Highlight:  When Joseph saw the first pumpkin out in the patch he yelled, “Look!  It’s AUTUMN!!!”

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                                     (Nom, nom, nom!!!!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And, lastly, what is now my favorite picture ever:

How can I NOT get up with that little loverboy 3 times a night??!!

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Now, how does one go about carving a pumpkin in a hotel?…