I LOVE NY

I luckily got to go back to NYC last week. It all started when my Mom told me she received a reunion invitation from my high school in NY. Three months later I was on the red-eye not able to sleep. Martha, my Mom and I got to the city with weak stomachs and almost made it the whole cab ride without throwing up. That is a big reason why airlines should not cut the meal on a long flight. But anyway we had a lot of fun walking about 40 blocks per day, riding every subway line and the railroad to New Rochelle, NY. We also used a lot of public bathrooms to clean-up while we were on the trip since we didn't have a hotel room right away. Some of the highlights from the trip were...

Washing our faces and brushing our teeth in the basement of the Marriott and watching a lady come in a see us with all of our luggage wide open.

Walking around Chinatown shopping for my Mom's annual wedding ring.

Looking for cute china bowls in the underground market.

Finding sweet brick walls on Thompson St. in SOHO.

Shopping for treats at Dylan's Candy Bar while Martha decided to charge her phone.

Going on a water taxi to see the "Waterfalls" show under the Brooklyn Bridge.
We had reservations to see it on a cruise but because of the rain it was canceled.

Eating delicious pizza at Grimaldis.

Getting dressed up for a night on the town with our friends Liz Smith,
and her daughter Sophia (the birthday girl).


Dinner at Asia de Cuba.

Out front Mary Poppins, after the show.

Visiting our old apartment.

Seeing our old doorman Tony.

Hearing our York Prep Headmaster say, "You girls were good girls, and real athletes. We need more girls like the Christensen twins to come to our school!" Whats up!

Martha and I hiding out from people we did not want to see at our High School reunion. These were our old lockers.

We decided instead of trucking all the way back to the hotel and changing and then coming back to our reunion we would just go in our running shoes and jeans with our hair in pony tails. Looking hot at your
high school reunions is overrated.

Hanging out in Brooklyn with Linsey, Brian, and Ivy. Wish we were neighbors!

Changing out of our church clothes and trying to see as much as possible before we had to go home.

I cannot believe how much we stuffed into a 3.5 day trip. But it was so good to go back to New York. Kc is coming the next time we make it back there and it will be his first time.

Another Weekend in the Bay

This weekend was another great adventure in the East Bay. On Friday night we got a bunch of tickets with the posse to go watch the battle for last place in the AL West between the Mariners and the A's. Even though the game didn't mean anything at all it was still a ton of fun to get a big group together. The real reason we went was because it was Mormon night and Pyro night all in one! So before the game we headed over to the Schnitz to enjoy some fine dining.

The Packers met up with us at the park and also Elias and Brittany. Here's a picture of us when the game was coming to a close. Anne was nice enough to take the picture so that's why Mike's all by himself up there.
So as soon as the game was over they let us down onto the field so that we could lay down and watch the fireworks. We were sitting in Ichiro territory and I rubbed grass and warning track dirt all over my glove for some good luck.

Then the show started and I must say was one of the most entertaining displays of fireworks I've ever seen in person. I love fireworks and this was a really good show. We took a little video of the finale and I tried to load it on here but couldn't figure it out. Maybe another time.

So the next day we woke up early and headed over to the Berkeley Tennis Club courtesy of Diablo Magazine (they were one of the sponsors of the event) for a celebrity/ProAm tournament. Lindsay Davenport was the main attraction and we watched her play some mixed doubles matches. It was a lot of fun and we even snuck into the players/families tent for some free lunch. We got some funny looks but it was worth it.

Later that night we went to this place on Park St. that had caught Molly's eye. It's a nice Chinese place that's on the second floor of one of the buildings right on Park. They gave us a nice view of the intersection.

This was our appetizer. It was a mix of a bunch of wantons, meat, pot stickers and other stuff that even came with it's own little flame to grill the food. This is Molly heating up the beef.

Just hanging out with a full belly

Project Runway Fans

Wow, Amy Pohler can really look like Christian Siriano. Its amazing.

The Grind and the Reward

I have become a bike commuter, it has been two weeks of wearing York Prep shorts and a family reunion shirt on the BART, and changing when I get to work. When I ride in my work clothes I sweat right through my outfit. Everyday is an adventure and risk never knowing if there will be enough room for me on the train and how many people will yell at me and push my bike out the closing doors. But there is always the weekend to look forward too. When I ride the BART without a bike and with Kc somewhere interesting. This weekend we went to the AVP Tour and watched the Gold Medal Olympians compete on Pier 30 in San Francisco. It was pretty fun to watch in the middle of the city with the Bay Bridge behind us. I was so excited to be there and went nuts when I saw Misty May and Keri Walsh- Kc thought I was a crazed fan. We also got to see the "Professor" and the "Beijing Beast" is what they called Daulhausser and Rogers.

My camera sadly ran out of battery right as they started playing, but I managed to get a few pictures.

This was when I got Misty to sign the shirt I was wearing. She hugged me to take a picture but I told her my camera wasn't working and all I had was a shirt to sign.

Then I got in line to get my shirt signed from Keri.
We are on first name basis now, since she put her hand up my shirt to sign it.

Best activity yet in San Francisco- hands down.

Labor Day Weekend

I'm glad I got to hang out with my little buddy Cohen.

On Labor Day we got out to play some tennis and some golf. Molly and I tried to put up a fight against her parents but were crushed by their experience on the court. It was a good exercise though.

On Saturday night we headed over to the Angels game courtesy of the Ainsworth's. Thanks to them we got to sit 5 rows right behind the home dugout and it was one of the best games I've seen in a long time...I still don't like the Angels (Go Mariners!...maybe next year) but it was a great game to watch. Robbed home runs, suicide squeezes, plays at the plate, it was a beauty.

After all that we did over the weekend, Molly was very happy that we got to the beaches down in Southern California this weekend. It was nice to just relax.

Weekend in Berkeley

A couple weekends ago we headed out to Berkeley on the BART and went to hang out at a pizza place to listen to a band bang out some good tunes as we pounded down some gourmet pizza. It was a lot of fun and here are the ladies as we waited for the BART ride back to Alameda

Your face is funny

For a happy anniversary activity on Monday instead of going out to a fancy restaurant we went to a place called iFly and then to In 'n' Out for dinner! It was a lot of fun, but we wished we had been allowed to "fly" for longer. Basically what you do is you get a quick training class, you get suited up and then get thrown in a wind tunnel with up to 500mph winds. We started with the beginning level floating and turning, but we think if we go back again we will be doing flips and tricks soon.
Get ready to laugh at my face.

The position we had to maintain, legs bent, and arms out at a 90 degree angle

Looking at the camera- The guy in their is my instructor

I photoshop'ed the proof label so the image might look really odd.

Haha..hahaha Kc looks funny, I guess holding his breath made him go higher

This one I couldn't quite get the watermark off. You can see me waiting to go next in the doorway.
Video to come of skydivers who do this to practice technique.
They wouldn't let us take pictures while waiting in the cage, and we didn't have anyone there to take pictures while we were doing it so these are all courtesy of ifly.