While waiting for the parade to start the crowd got a little antsy and then rowdy when someone spotted someone wearing a Boston Red Sox hat…what were they thinking?! There was then some serious cheering while one Yankee fan unsuccessfully tried to set the hat on fire before the hat got thrown around the crowd and spit. Wrong time and place for a Red Sox fan!
CC and Teixeira
Swisher and Damon
(do you see all the cameras … sadly I think some peope forgot to get a look at them in person and really enjoy the moment…not me, just aim the camera above you head and hope for the best while still getting to see everything)
Damon
Joba
Jose Molina and AJ Burnett
HERE COME THE CORE FOUR!!!
Jeter!
Jorge!
Pettite!
just as it should be…Rivera ended the parade!
Dan and Lisa cheering both for the Yankees and for their ability to have the room to move their arms and legs again.
some days your just extra glad that you don’t work for the sanitation dept!
that’s how many miles over 40,000 people in NYC ran earlier this week. I think they were all crazy!! … but at the same time totally amazing and inspiring.
thanks for another heart-warming, fun, and inspiring day Anne, Jose, Rob, Marie, and all the other runners I don’t know but cheered on anyway. This day is always just one small reminder of why I love this city and its people.
Happy Marathon Day 2009!
practice…practice…practice…
or just be Stephen Lynch! this space is sooo historic and beautiful!
(how much do I love my new phone’s camera’s panorama feature!) the view from our seats!!!
Bill, Erin, Margaret and I (Dan couldn’t make it last minute…glad you could fill in Margaret!) headed to midtown to go to our first ever show at Carnegie Hall. The show as by comedian/singer/songwriter/actor Stephen Lynch. He is so talented and extremely funny. Nothing is off limits in his comedy and several times we all looked at each other with “did he really just say that?!” eyes. Our seats were amazing! We were basically on the stage. It was perfect because from our seats we could really take in the whole theatre. I know that Carnegie Hall is famous for its acoustics, but it’s not until you are sitting in the theatre listening to someone on stage that you really understand what all the hype is about. It truly has the most beautiful acoustics of any theatre I have ever been in…and I’ve been in a lot!
This past January for my Dad’s birthday Erin and I decided to give him a trip to the city to hang out, visit the Intrepid, and to go to dinner to try some different foods that he doesn’t get to try with my Mom. Now fast forward to yesterday, October 17th….we finally fulfilled our present. oops! better late then never, right?
My Dad came down on the train in the morning and met up with Erin, Dan, and myself and we headed off on our day of adventure
(it was Dad’s gift. so we left Mom at Woodbury Commons home and away from whatever “exotic” foods we were going to be eating for dinner.)
the Blackbird…the world’s fastest and highest-flying aircraft ever built
the Crusader…first supersonic fighter designed for carrier use and the fastest plane to fly from the Intrepid
the Grumman F-14 TOMCAT….the coolest plane to see up close. not only was it used in the movie Top Gun, but even cooler because my Grandpa was on the team that designed it. Amazing Grandpa!
the A6 Intruder…another awesome story….my Grandpa flew in the cockpit of this plane and landed on the Nimitz airforce carrier to see the F14 in action. I can’t even imagine how amazing that must have been! You should have seen how small the cockpit was! Scary! He might as well have been flying the plane!
the AV-8A Harrier….can take off vertically like a helicopter…what?!
Who needs an audio guide when you have my Dad! Seriously! He knew everything about every one of the planes. He’d say lets go over and see the ____ and we’d be like “huh? which one is that?”. In the picture above Dad was describing how the plane is able to take off vertically. He said…do you see that flap behind the gas tank?…and we said…i don’t even see the gas tank! we need need things described in colors…oh yes the white flap!
we thought people might join our “Dad tour”. . . they probably should have. they would have learned a lot!
the museum also houses the Growler submarine…claustrophobia anyone?! Dan and Erin rescuing Dad in the Bell medical evacuation helicopter (like the ones on MASH)…nice rescue guys!
nothing like a little family lifeboat photo…who’s rocking the boat!
After the Intrepid we took the subway down and met up with Bill to have dinner at Alta on 10th St.
2 bottles of wine + 12 different tapas + 5 family members + great conversation= 1 amazing meal!
Then it was time to say good-bye and put Dad on the train home.
What a perfect day!
i know you may think that hate is a strong word to use about such “lovable” creatures, but it’s accurate. i find them to be completely creepy and i try to avoid anything that could be at all puppet related. that may seem like a silly statement because how many things for a grown up 26 -year-old could be “puppet related”, but you’d be surprised (there are commercials, tv/movies, puppets in stores and outdoor shops, everywhere). i’m pretty sure that this puppet hatred stems from my childhood. my parents never liked puppets like those on sesame street and i think passed that feeling down to their children. i’m almost positive that if you were to ask the other two skahen children they would have a similar puppet hatred to mine. now i feel like i should clarify this hatred less you think i mean all puppets…that’s not true. my puppet hatred is restricted to mainly those that look like muppets…you know the sesame street kind (although i also can’t stand those fandango puppets).
for example i love this guy and his puppets….he is hilarious!
a little irreverent, but funny!
he has a new show coming out on comedy central starting oct 22nd at 9pm. hope it’s as funny as his stand-up!
anyway….
the reason i brought up this rather strange topic of puppets is because last night dan and i went to see avenue q off broadway. it’s a musical about puppets living on the imaginary avenue q in nyc. it takes the blue print of sesame street and turns it upside down and makes it relevent for those of us in our 20s and 30s who have already learned our a-b-c’s and how to share our toys. instead it teaches us grown-ups what it’s like to live in the real world, and that we are not alone in the things that we have to go through growing up post college. as brianne can attest, i have put off seeing this musical for years. even after it won 3 tonys. i just couldn’t get over the fact that it was able puppets…i shutter at the thought. i finally decided to give in yesterday. only a select few shows aren’t dark on mondays and i got a sweet deal from a legit guy on the street so i decided what the heck, “we’ll give it a try”. i’m soo glad we did! it was hilarious and i spent the whole 2 hours laughing…and who doesn’t need that! as 20 something year olds living in nyc trying to make our way we could relate to almost every song and see the humor in some things in life we often find ourselves taking too seriously. thanks for all the laughs anvenue q! they were much needed!
i’d give you some quotes or show you a video from the show, but dan pretty much summoned up my favorites in his blog.
which reminds me…i forgot to post a blog about my brother dan…oops. i’m sure that everyone who reads this blog already knows, but for the 1 or 2 of you out there who don’t…my brother graduated college this summer and has moved down to the city and into my loft in search of his first job in journalism/public relations. yay for dan! it’s been fun getting to reconnect with each other as adults; seeing as we haven’t lived together in eight years. wow that’s a long time! i guess i have also forgotten to post anything about the fact that i have moved to a new apt as well…more on that to follow…for now just know that i’m loving it!
after 3 years of living on the same street as the famous Beacon theatre I finally made it to a concert there the week that I moved 3 blocks further away…ironic.
Emily and I went to see Brandi Carlile on Saturday. Her music is great and a mix of country, folk, and rock. She put on an awesome show! You should definitely look her up.
I was so glad to finally get to see the inside of the theatre after walking by the outside of it everyday for nearly 3 years. It lived up to my expectations completely. The perfect mix of grandeur, gaud, and beauty.
the stage from our seats. (ps: that’s right we sat behind this dude…I’m not sure he had ever even heard of Brandi Carlile before. oh well.)
the opening act was Katie Herzig and her band. I had never heard her before, but I really enjoyed her music as well.
She wanted to hear the acoustics of the theatre and pay tribute to the history of the theatre so they played this whole song completely unplugged from all mics and amps….amazing!
I wanted to post a video of my favorite song, but no sadly I couldn’t find it posted on youtube. oh well…these two videos will have to do…enjoy!
this blog is almost to sad to post.
posting it reminds me that the franks are not just away for the week,
but that they have actually left nyc for good
it’s only been a week but nyc is already not the same without you guys! we miss you both terribly!
ok . . . enough with being sad . . .
We ended they’re time in NYC with a bang!
We called the day Progressively Aggressive, as we spent the whole day progressing through their time in NYC and doing it very aggressively, ie/quickly. We went through the city reliving favorite moments and experiencing the things they hadn’t gotten around to doing yet. The day started bright and early and didn’t end until 4am the next day when they had to leave for their flight to Seattle.
what Progressivley Aggressive day would be complete without an army dressed in “I Love NY” shirts?! . . . none I tell you.
I must say that real New Yorkers wearing “I love NY” shirts is pretty embarrassing…until…you get a pack of seven together. Then it just becomes awesome and people ask you if they can take your picture and tell you how much they love NY too.
my day with the Franks began at the NYC library…although they hit up the Empire State building earlier in the morning
oh no! the Franks are packing up their things to move from the land of apples to the land of potatoes (with a brief stop over in the land of spicy foods for 3 months) . . . now don’t be confused by the truck . . . no the Franks didn’t need a truck to move. All they needed was 4 or 5 large suitcases. Man they pack light!
we didn’t have time to make it down to battery park to say an official goodbye to lady liberty. So the statue outside the tourist souvenir story will have to do
(hey look that store is having a 50% off sale)
in the afternoon we headed down to High Line park and signed each other’s “I love NY” shirts yearbook style. We turned our shirts into I love NY and friends shirts. They went from embarrassing regular shirts to awesome shirts that represented our whole day together.
later in the day we went around and visited all those crazy people who had to work on a Tuesday …unheard of! and had them sign our shirts as well.
even Whitney’s fruit guy signed her shirt!
one last Grey’s Papaya hot dog special…gotta love Greys!
one last brilliant game of Settlers at the Cates…best game yet!
at midnight after settlers we headed down to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge
after one last game of Settlers in my apartment and some 16 hours later 5 very tired friends said a very teary-eyed goodbye on the sidewalk as Whitney and Conrad got in their cab and headed to the airport.
Whitney and Conrad, don’t forget your friends in NYC!
Can’t wait for our trip to Idaho!
See you both soon!
We love you!
A bunch of my friends and myself have spent the weekend trying to live and enjoy every last moment that the Franks are in town. I must say that we have all been pretty successful in this task. This weekend has consisted of all of us hanging out together, or us on the phone with one another planning what to do next.
we had backyard BBQs
we rode our bikes and watched Nathan play in a soccer game and Cory referee
we had Whitney and Conrad’s going away party
of coarse we had more bbq at the party…never a bad time if you ask us!
no party for the Franks would be complete without a game or two…this one was particularly fun…it was a mix of catch phrase, charades, and celebrity
don’t worry . . . before the party started we tested out the lasted Cates family card game
we had Sunday morning (well really afternoon) brunch and watch football
we went to Conrad and Whit’s last (for a while ) Sunday service at Redeemer
we ended the weekend by playing Settlers long into the night! I came sooo close to winning twice before the Franks both stole it out from under me….darn those Franks!
All in all it was a wonderful and friend-filled last weekend with the Franks!
need I say it again…you two will be sorely missed…can’t wait to come visit Idaho!
jumpers ready? . . . 1 -2 -3 . . . jump!
you can only imagine how many of these shots we took before we were all up!
this was definitely everyone’s favorite mishap picture…oops!
“look at my friends jump”
our bike gang took one of our last rides through the park and around the big loop to get to the frisbee/soccer fields. i know that thunder and lightening are really going to miss their friends cyclone and tsunami.
we finished the night off with a nice, though slightly chilly, backyard bbq…what a way to finish off a great day!
we’re really going to miss you whitney and conrad!
