Monday 25 October 2010

Super Fun Weekend!


This weekend my best friend Erin came to visit me and our friend Stephanie and it was great! It was so nice to have her in NYC and for me to have some girly time. I've known Erin and Stephanie since we were in 5th...so we go waaaaaay back. We spent Saturday eating and shopping and then Saturday night celebrating my friend Sharon's birthday at a Japanese Ramen restaurant called Ippudo and then to a really cool bar called the Back Room.


Luckiest guy in NYC!

On Sunday after Erin left, Al, Aidan and I headed to Queens to visit Sean! We got to see his apartment which is great and Al got to have a good pint of Guinness and we were treated to a delicious dinner at an Astoria local tex-mex placed called MexiQ.

Aidan loves his Uncle Sean so much!
Thanks again Sean for the great visit to Queens!

ps...check me out with the new blog post so soon after the last one!

Wednesday 20 October 2010

What Have We Been Doing for the Last Two Months?!


Besides not posting any blogs of course? Well...we have moved to New York City and have been in our new apartment for about 2 weeks and are slowly but surely getting settled in. I'm learning new ways to get around although I am missing London buses and especially missing London Taxis! But the subway is treating us well so far (see above photo!) and Aidan likes to find the weirdest person in the car and make friends. Here is a little round up of where we've been and what we've been doing:

Here is Aidan on our first morning in our corporate housing. I had to put this in because the kid has some of the best bed-head I've ever seen!

Aidan started walking while we were in London but is not slowing down any time soon. Here he is with Al at the Bronx Zoo where we went to celebrate Stephanie's 30th Birthday.

Speaking of Stephanie...Aidan is becoming very good friends with Stephanie's daughter Gracen who is the most lady-like baby I've ever met. She is adorable and Aidan is smitten!

We've been able to see my brother Sean a ton which is awesome! Sean even flew with us to Chicago and was a gigantic help! Here are Godfather and Godson at the cafe in Sean's office building.

Aidan has had enough of flying for a while.

Stephanie has also been so kind to invite me and Aidan out with some of her friends. Here were are at the Natural History Museum. It was an ambitious effort and we had a good time and were rewarded for our efforts with Shake Shack at the end of the visit.

Our friends Sean and Michelle who just moved to London as we were leaving came back to New York for a visit and Sean threw Michelle a 30th surprise party at a Rockville Centre favorite, El Mariachi.

This is a picture Al took of Aidan at the park near our apartment. Note the Chrysler Building in the background!

Here is Aidan with his favorite toy. The Lil' Spinners Raceway! However everything goes into this thing...

Even himself!!

Gracen and Stephanie accompanied us to Hoboken today because T2 was craving Panera and I have become a bit of a fan of The Cake Boss on TLC so we also went to Carlo's Bakery and came away with a few treats!

Of course these went into the raceway too!

Other than that we've been keeping busy. Aidan make a triumphant return to swimming and Al is settling into his new job really well. We have a busy couple of weeks coming up but I'm determined to get back on the blogging bandwagon!