our first xmas tree!

hosting thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving was a success! the food was really good and the night was fun! more pictures here

a week later... a halloween recap!

Halloween night was fun! I got felix to wear a skirt, heard some good music, had some good and some not-so-good drinks, saw a few friends, got a glimpse of what Savitha will look like when she's pregnant, tried for 30 minutes to take a cab in NYC's busiest cab nights and got one!, partied until later than usual, fell asleep on the train on our way home, woke up 2 stops after ours at 4 am, slept until 2 pm the next day...

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thanks to Angela and Obi... I'm back!

After a long absence, here I am again, and you can blame 2 people for it: my friend Angela, who suggested last night that if my blog died hers would too, since I'm the one who inspired her to start it. I could probably deal with killing my own blog, but 2 deaths is too much to be responsible for!
The other person is Obama, whose winning last night ended in a riot in the streets of our neighborhood. I would have loved to be there but I was too busy sleeping. I fell asleep watching the results reports, around 10:30 pm. Yes, I'm old! But this historic event made me want to blog again, so without further interruptions, here are some great pics of how Williamsburg celebrated, found at brooklynvegan.com.

waterfalls in the city

By danish artist Olafur Eliasson.

sunday-part 2

After picking cherries, we had lunch in "Rock Da Pasta", an awesome place in New Paltz. A little later we got caught in the rain, which forced us to have tea and dessert in town, instead of hiking and swimming at the Mohawk preserve.
On our way home we stopped at Mount Fuji for some Hibachi!

sunday-part 1

On sunday we went cherry picking with Juancho, Paula, Howard and Abbey.

the company picnic

Last week was my office's picnic in Pennsylvania and I have to say I was really impressed by the effort the company puts into this event. The food was delicious and there was a lot of entertainment, including a "Rodale Idol" contest, a reptile zoo and a couple of Orbitrons. I was fun to be outdoors eating nonstop -instead of in the cubicle- in such a gorgeous day!

Weekend in Virginia

This weekend Felix and I went to Savitha's place in Virginia, and despite the planets conspiring against us (bus delays, car breakdown, thunderstorm, power outage) we had a great time! rowing and swimming in the lake, making smores on the candle light...