Are You Ready for Some Football?

So this is what football looked like in our house today...hope you all enjoyed your first day of LSU football season!!!!











What a great day!!!

Oh What A Night!

Subway ticket to the Bronx on the 4 train...$2



Hot dog and a beer in Yankee stadium...$14.50




11-3 Red Sox...PRICELESS!

We had the best time at our first game in Yankee stadium! The Red Sox were amazing and gave us a great game. It was one of the best nights we have had in New York. Enjoy some photos below!

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Keep Your Eye Out for Orie and Di

Tomorrow night, Wednesday, August 27, 2008, Orie and I are headed to Yankee Stadium to watch the Boston Red Sox. It will be game 2 of the series and we are super excited! It's a huge rivalry as you may know and Orie and I might be two of the few Red Sox fans in the city of New York.

Watch for us on t.v. (even though our seats are in the nosebleeds!) It's the last year for Yankee Stadium so we are going to try and get there as early as possible to check out Memorial Park. Apparently, Orie's Grandpa Huggins' great uncle was a manager of the Yankees back in the 20's - Miller Huggins!

It should be a big night. I'm sure there will be pictures to come!

Sprinklers

Well the sprinklers are now an obsession for our great dog. She heard the tick tick ticking today as we entered the park and it was nuts. She was pulling so hard to the ticking it was like a track dog finding a criminal. We had great fun attacking THREE sprinklers today! We then had to quickly leave the park though because she hovered over the third one for so long that we almost toppled it over - yes it would have been spraying sideways all over the park! Never a dull day in the park with Grace!

Also - we learned today that our crazy neighbor underneath us is moving out!! Woo Hoo - she told our super it was because she has only slept 2 hours a night since we moved in. Since we're so wild and crazy!!!! Don't you just love crazy people? Our super was thrilled!!

Friends, Blues & BBQ

Well this was one of our last weekends before reality sets back in for both of us. I have two inservice days this week and then start work after Labor Day. I think Orie will miss Grace being taken care of, a clean house, and dinner ready!!!!

Friday we had dinner with our fried Geoff at a neighborhood place. It was a nice break since the two previous nights Orie and I have been busy looking at apartments in NYC. After dinner we took Grace to the park to play and she had another great evening. She loves having the park to herself!




Today we joined Geoff for the 9th annual Blues BBQ at the Hudson River Park. It was a great event. We went to Pier 54 I believe at West 14th street. The pier was a full asphalt pier and it was HOT! We waited for quite some time in a line for BBQ and then made our way up to the stage for some blues. The whole day was really great and the experience was again, like nothing else you think you would find in New York. Enjoy some photos!

Close your eyes and imagine...

So Grace and I were in the park today and they had the sprinklers going. It's the kind with the revolving head that goes tick tick tick tick and then shoots back. I hope you know what I am talking about. Anyway, a sprinkler really has some force when it sprays water out - and there was our dog trying to attack it. It was hilarious. Everyone stared at us laughing but Grace was having a great time. I am not sure if she was confused more about the ticking or that she couldn't get her mouth around the water to drink it!! She tried and tried though and then she gave up...sopping wet!

Another great day...

A Great Day with Grace in the Park!

Today Grace and I set out for a relaxing day in Central Park. It was fantastic. I'm not used to carrying all of the gear by myself. Usually we go on the weekends and Orie can help carry and control the dog on the streets. We decided that we were real girls today and could handle it on our own. My shoulder was killing me from carrying the heavy bag and having Grace on her leash. We made it though. Once we got there, we picked the perfect spot and sat out to have the perfect day. We certainly did. I read and Grace ate sticks, people watched, squirrel hunted and really just had an awesome day. Perfection to a 70 degree day in the city!

Grace Loves Ethan!

Some cute pics of Grace and Ethan in Cape May Point. She didn't really understand why Ethan wasn't going to throw the ball for her!!!

New York is Favre Country!

What a super night for us at the Jets game!! We had a friend Jeff come in town to take in some sites and suggested going to the Jets game because it was rumored Favre would start. We were all over that!! We recruited another friend Geoff and the four of us headed off on the shuttle bus from Port Authority. It was fantastic from the first moment we got there. A sea of green and white - tons of Brett Favre fans - and the four of us super excited! We are Jets fans for sure now - we needed a reason to identify with at least one New York team. I don't think other New Yorkers are real proud of us when we say we hate the Giants and we are really Red Sox fans - the Saints never fit into that equation either!!!!

We captured LOTS of moments from the game that are in the slideshow but here are a few of the highlights.

Our group...


Tom Cruise - in the black pants and grey jacket


Brett Favre's first huddle, pass, etc.



Brett Favre's first touchdown completion!






Jets Show #1

Jets Show #2

Jets Shows #3