Expecting our first rain since a couple days before Thanksgiving. The clouds starting to roll in make for a beautiful sunset.
Another eight minutes and two fresh crabs come out of the pot. Dan who is doing some tile and other misc work for us went out today and brought two fresh crab and some fresh cod. Per Dan you boil crab exactly 21 minutes and add lots of salt to the boil. Life is good.
Getting our kitchen cabinets refinished. Tonight we go over to Paula's for another dinner and game night. We've have stuff every night this week. Last night Susan went to the school board meeting and Monday was movies. They had someone that owns an autamation studio and presented 2 1/2 hours for fantastic shorts. Tomorrow is the Grange meeting and Friday is ourv monthly locals potluck and game night. I would say we're busy.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Sorry if the blog is out of order
Some from two months ago never went and were automatically sent when I sent the newest Blog. We have not been in Crescent City ofr a couple months. We've made one trip from the Coast; that to San Francisco a couple weeks ago.
It's two months since we left Sacramento
We have settled in. We start each day with an Almas walk of about an hour. Then its breakfast and a game while eating.
We do lots at the local theater. We joined the movie club and go to the movies the 1st and 2nd Mondays of the month. We have gotten into opera and go to the Met live presentations; the next being this coming Saturday. We are going to a live telecast of the London Theater tonight.
We have had several neighbors over to eat and were invited over to their houses as well.
There is a Thursday walking club and we have joined on several hikes including a great mushroom identification like with a PhD candidate from UC Berkeley.
We joined the food coop and the Grange where we are helping with the New Years Eve Crab Feed and are taking on a special project to restore the cemetary and work with the high school students to develop the history of those buried; some go back to the 1850's.
We we have had lots of visitors and a great Thanksgiving time with Rose and her boyfriend Nick and our friend Janet
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Wine and Mushrooms
Its mushroom season. Today we went to a fundraiser up in Mendocino where we all judged ten mushroom soups from the noted Mendocino restaurants. There was plentiful (we mean plentiful) wine tasting along with many mushroom appetizers. We have not heard if we won anything at the silent auction. We bid on quite a few area restaurants. We went with our neighbors Leon and Donna.
For the Thursday hike club - we went above Salt Point on a great hike with a PHD student from Berkeley who is a mushroom expert. We learned so much about mushrooms and had a fantastic hike. We came home with Chantalle's which we put on our pizza.
Last night we went to the local Co-Op fundraiser where they had some pasta with homemade veggie sauce and brick oven baked garlic bread and salad. The portions were huge.
Can't say we've done too much on the dieting front.
We have events both Monday and Tuesday nights plus a couple hikes so we are sure staying busy
For the Thursday hike club - we went above Salt Point on a great hike with a PHD student from Berkeley who is a mushroom expert. We learned so much about mushrooms and had a fantastic hike. We came home with Chantalle's which we put on our pizza.
Last night we went to the local Co-Op fundraiser where they had some pasta with homemade veggie sauce and brick oven baked garlic bread and salad. The portions were huge.
Can't say we've done too much on the dieting front.
We have events both Monday and Tuesday nights plus a couple hikes so we are sure staying busy
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
It's been a month
We have settled at our home in Irish Beach (Manchester) in Mendocino County. We left Sacramento on September 28 but did not actually move to this house until October 14 as it was rented.
We have had four sets of guests: Ethel and Bob, Mike, Chris and Julia, Bob and Mei and Aviva and Mathew.
We have done many Mendocino events thur far;
1. Neighbors Halloween Party
2. The NYC opera at the theater
3. Three or four movies
4. A synagogue service
5. Had three dinners at the house with neighbors
6.. A hike with the Thursday hiking group
7. An improv group show in Mendocino with a group of neighbors.
We have had four sets of guests: Ethel and Bob, Mike, Chris and Julia, Bob and Mei and Aviva and Mathew.
We have done many Mendocino events thur far;
1. Neighbors Halloween Party
2. The NYC opera at the theater
3. Three or four movies
4. A synagogue service
5. Had three dinners at the house with neighbors
6.. A hike with the Thursday hiking group
7. An improv group show in Mendocino with a group of neighbors.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
If it's Thursday, I'm probably hiking.: FLUMEVILLE TO STORNETTA PUBLIC LANDS
If it's Thursday, I'm probably hiking.: FLUMEVILLE TO STORNETTA PUBLIC LANDS
This was our first hike after moving to Manchester with the Thursday Ramblers hiking group.
This was our first hike after moving to Manchester with the Thursday Ramblers hiking group.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Another free gambling night
So tonight we're in Crescent City in the rain and see $20 in free gambling money at the Elk Valley casino here in town. So away we go each armed with $20 on our Elk Valley members card. So after a couple of hours of fun we left with $50 of their money. That is because we continue to get the payoff for each time we win.
So we paid for tonight's dinner we had at a Thai restaurant and tomorrows lunch (breakfast is fee at the hotel).
Also got our annual flu shots today. What interesting activities for a vacation??
The Oregon Caves are fantastic - suggest you all go and stay in, or at least eat in, the Chateau there.
So we paid for tonight's dinner we had at a Thai restaurant and tomorrows lunch (breakfast is fee at the hotel).
Also got our annual flu shots today. What interesting activities for a vacation??
The Oregon Caves are fantastic - suggest you all go and stay in, or at least eat in, the Chateau there.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Our annual trip to Ashland, OR
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Pictures start at the "Lost Coast", then to Ferndale, onto the Klamath River basin and finally to a wine tasting place here in Ashland.
About 20 years ago Susan worked for the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). One of the city housing plans Susan reviewed was for the City of Ft Jones. So 20 years later we visited the city. Its in a beautiful valley about ten miles west of Yreka.
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Pictures start at the "Lost Coast", then to Ferndale, onto the Klamath River basin and finally to a wine tasting place here in Ashland.
About 20 years ago Susan worked for the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). One of the city housing plans Susan reviewed was for the City of Ft Jones. So 20 years later we visited the city. Its in a beautiful valley about ten miles west of Yreka.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
We have moved to Irish Beach
No longer in Sacramento. Moved to house in Mendocino County on Sept 29 but the house is still rented as a vacation rental for the next two weeks so on the road again - its our annual trek to Ashland to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
On the road again
Traveled the Lost Coast today. We walked on a truely deserted beach wwith great shells.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Mount St. Helens
We went for a short "drive through" and ended up spending two entire days.
The first day we went to the Johnson Observatory directly across from the crater's north side. You enter from the West from Castle Rock, Washington. It's about sixty miles to the end of the road. We spent the entire day seeing the two films, attending a ranger talk, viewing all in the museum, eating the lunch we had brought, and taking a hike.
On the way back West we stopped at a view point, then stopped at a newly created lake that formed after the eruption, and then tried to go to the The Mt. St. Helens Forest Learning Center, a partnership between Weyerhaeuser Company, Washington State Department of Transportation and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, but it was closed. We then stopped at a place that had a lot on the history of Spirit Lake and of Harry Truman who owned a lodge there and refused to leave and was one of the 57 who perished the day of the eruption. Our final sop was the Visitors Center almost back to Castle Rock but it had also closed. But there is a great boardwalk behind it through a marsh with great views of the mountain. The marsh is a great birding spot but not this time of year.
The next day we decided to move on the south side of the mountain. The eruption was on the north side of St Helens so the south still has forests and looked more like your "typical" volcano shape. The drive South is equally as far as the one on the north, and goes east out of Woodland, Washington.
The Ape caves are a 3/4 mile lava formed ice caves, which you go into with your flashlights. Inside the temperature is a constant 40 degrees. The hike inside is really worth it. Less than a mile away from the cave is a 2,000 lava flow over trees. The spot where the trees grew are holes in the lava. And where the trees fell lava moved around then leaving tunnels where the tree trunks once stood. Again, you can crawl through these lava.tree trunks.
We went up as far as we could to the south facing side of Mt St Helens. The views were awesome.
But............ that was not enough for us. We decided to go further east and then north on a not so well maintained Forest Service road to Windy Ridge, the view from the northeast into the crater. It is about a 1 1/2 hour drive each way. The road goes through the heart of the blast zone where millions of trees were blown down or where the dead trunks are just left standing.
The road ends overlooking Spirit Lake and the crater. There's a 300 step stair to the top of a mountain for a spectacular view of the lake and the crater. Spirit Lake is still filled with downed trees from the eruption, now thirty years after the eruption took place.
Needless to say we were still driving out of Mt St Helens at dark. We stayed in Hood River, Oregon and ate and slept with views of the Columbia River. We sat down for dinner well after 9pm.
We highly recommend you go to Mount St. Helens if you have not made the trip. Maybe you will no take two days like we did but it is very worth the time.
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Last year the PBS show NOVA had an excellent show on Mount St Helens as it was the 30th anniversary since the eruption. The show runs a bit under an hour and is well worth it. The link to the show is: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/mt-st-helens.html
The first day we went to the Johnson Observatory directly across from the crater's north side. You enter from the West from Castle Rock, Washington. It's about sixty miles to the end of the road. We spent the entire day seeing the two films, attending a ranger talk, viewing all in the museum, eating the lunch we had brought, and taking a hike.
On the way back West we stopped at a view point, then stopped at a newly created lake that formed after the eruption, and then tried to go to the The Mt. St. Helens Forest Learning Center, a partnership between Weyerhaeuser Company, Washington State Department of Transportation and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, but it was closed. We then stopped at a place that had a lot on the history of Spirit Lake and of Harry Truman who owned a lodge there and refused to leave and was one of the 57 who perished the day of the eruption. Our final sop was the Visitors Center almost back to Castle Rock but it had also closed. But there is a great boardwalk behind it through a marsh with great views of the mountain. The marsh is a great birding spot but not this time of year.
The next day we decided to move on the south side of the mountain. The eruption was on the north side of St Helens so the south still has forests and looked more like your "typical" volcano shape. The drive South is equally as far as the one on the north, and goes east out of Woodland, Washington.
The Ape caves are a 3/4 mile lava formed ice caves, which you go into with your flashlights. Inside the temperature is a constant 40 degrees. The hike inside is really worth it. Less than a mile away from the cave is a 2,000 lava flow over trees. The spot where the trees grew are holes in the lava. And where the trees fell lava moved around then leaving tunnels where the tree trunks once stood. Again, you can crawl through these lava.tree trunks.
We went up as far as we could to the south facing side of Mt St Helens. The views were awesome.
But............ that was not enough for us. We decided to go further east and then north on a not so well maintained Forest Service road to Windy Ridge, the view from the northeast into the crater. It is about a 1 1/2 hour drive each way. The road goes through the heart of the blast zone where millions of trees were blown down or where the dead trunks are just left standing.
The road ends overlooking Spirit Lake and the crater. There's a 300 step stair to the top of a mountain for a spectacular view of the lake and the crater. Spirit Lake is still filled with downed trees from the eruption, now thirty years after the eruption took place.
Needless to say we were still driving out of Mt St Helens at dark. We stayed in Hood River, Oregon and ate and slept with views of the Columbia River. We sat down for dinner well after 9pm.
We highly recommend you go to Mount St. Helens if you have not made the trip. Maybe you will no take two days like we did but it is very worth the time.
Our pictures from Mt St Helens can be found at the following link: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=glevpalmer&target=ALBUM&id=5645072565560172209&authkey=Gv1sRgCM3gqNPkk4eFTQ&feat=email
Last year the PBS show NOVA had an excellent show on Mount St Helens as it was the 30th anniversary since the eruption. The show runs a bit under an hour and is well worth it. The link to the show is: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/mt-st-helens.html
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Crater Lake
Sitting at the highest point around the lake at sunset was a thrill. The dinner at the lodge was fantastic. Enjoy the pictures at this link: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=glevpalmer&target=ALBUM&id=5644871770933022945&authkey=Gv1sRgCI3d3riphprwNw&feat=email
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
The Adventure School Store in Seattle
It's just down from Pike's Market in Pioneer Sq. If you go to Seattle you must drop by.
Mom and Dad help out for a bit the other day. There's always something crazy happening. Art, classes, or entertainment.
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You can shop in the store by going to the following website: http://www.theadventureschool.com/store/
Mom and Dad help out for a bit the other day. There's always something crazy happening. Art, classes, or entertainment.
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You can shop in the store by going to the following website: http://www.theadventureschool.com/store/
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Vashon Island (Puget Sound)
Took a ferry boat ride from Tacoma to Vashon and Murry Islands. A great lunch outside on the water in a Mexican Resturant with great veggie options. Returned via West Seattle. Took a hike at Point Robinson Lighthouse. Enjoy the pictures at the following link:
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Monday, August 15, 2011
Japanese Garden Portland, Oregon
So beautiful. Is suppose to be the most authenic outside of Japan.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
It's happening - Mendocino here we come
OK - the house has not sold but a dear friend is renting our house on October 1 making our move to Irish Beach finally possible. We have a six month listing and it expires mid-September.
To Folsom
A great trip in Sacramento is to take LightRail to Folsom and then ride the bike trail home. And if you get tired you can ride back as far as you want and then go over to Folsom Blvd to catch light rail the rest of the way home. Of course you avid bike riders go all the way to Folsom and back on your bikes.
Today we rode our bikes to LightRail where we met our friend and took the train to the end of the line. Went to the Sutter Street Grill for breakfast and rode our bikes back along Natomas Lake and onto the American River Parkway. After about 15 miles (it was hotter today than the last few) we cut back over to Light Rail for the rest of the way home. We estimate the total ride was about twenty miles.
The Sutter Street Grill has some great biscuits. The only issue today was that our order got lost so our bike ride started about a half hour later than we had planned.
Today we rode our bikes to LightRail where we met our friend and took the train to the end of the line. Went to the Sutter Street Grill for breakfast and rode our bikes back along Natomas Lake and onto the American River Parkway. After about 15 miles (it was hotter today than the last few) we cut back over to Light Rail for the rest of the way home. We estimate the total ride was about twenty miles.
The Sutter Street Grill has some great biscuits. The only issue today was that our order got lost so our bike ride started about a half hour later than we had planned.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Codfish Creek Falls - Auburn State Recreation Area
A great hike - beautiful waterfall and a wonderful swim in the North Fork of the American River after the hike. The water was a perfect temperature. Enjoy these pictures.
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Friday, August 5, 2011
Gertrude Stein at the SFMOMA
A highly recommended exhibit at the SFMOMA and companion exhibit at the Jewish Contemporary Museum around the corner. We learned more about the Alice B Token brownies. The show will travel to Paris and onto New York after it leaves San Francisco in early September.
A weekly trip
After going to the California State Fair and working two days at the Mendocino County booth, we picked up lots of brochures of interesting spots in California. So we have decides on weekly mini-vacations to spots we have not seen (or at least have not seen in many years). The first was the trip just shared to Bodie State Park. We drove Highway 50 to Highway 89 through Markeeville and onto US 395. We went to Bodie for two days so we really did the park justice.
We spent the night at the Topez Lake Casino where we joined the club and got $10 in slot money. We won $7, and with the coupon for breakfast got it for almost free. We played almost three hours on their $10 and got free drinks while playing. How could one go wrong?
We drove back via Mono Lake and through Yosemite National Park
We spent the night at the Topez Lake Casino where we joined the club and got $10 in slot money. We won $7, and with the coupon for breakfast got it for almost free. We played almost three hours on their $10 and got free drinks while playing. How could one go wrong?
We drove back via Mono Lake and through Yosemite National Park
Bodie Historic State Park - Mono County, California
If you have not been there you should go (anytime but winter) . And nearby in the fastastic Mono Lake. Anything on US 395 is worth seeing.
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Thursday, June 9, 2011
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Carlsbad pictures
We're home now but still behind with the pictures. This set is from Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. Enjoy.
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011
8000 miles
We hit 8,000 mile mark in weedpatch California - a town a few miles east of bakersfield. Home tonight after nearly two months of fantastic travel.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Almost home
In Lake Havasu with a great view of London Bridge from our hotel room. Next stop Sacramento
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Made it to Big Spring, TX
We are about three hours from Carlsbad Caverns where we expect to send a couple nights before moving onto Arizona and back to California.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Chickasaw Cultural Center
Just left the center which is in Sulfur, Oklahoma about half way between Oklahoma City and Dallas. Really beautiful and full of Native American pride. We highly recommend. Now on US 70 heading west. Still in Oklahoma but should cross into Texas in an hour or two.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
HEADING. WEST THRU MISSOURI
Left Susan's high school friend Ellen this morning and heading west with our next destination Carlsbad Caverns. Meeting Rose's friends for lunch in Columbia, Missouri. The St. Louis gateway arch is fantastic. A beautiful city.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
St Louis
Lots of lightning and tornadoes possible. An exciting evening for us California types. Got one of those radio alerts with the emergency system and thought it was a test but was the real thing
Definitely not on New York anymore
Grits, eggs,pancakes, biscuits, fried apples, and gravey. Three people and $19 with tip. And oh so good
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Rose graduated
Two days of excitement. Tuesday was Columbia college graduation and Wednesday was the university wide graduation.
We had a family dinner Tuesday and a dinner with tje four girls that stayed together all four years with families Wednesday.
In Pennsylvania
We left nyc at noon. New Jersey is only 70 miles wide so it did not take lomg to get to Pennsylvania. We will get to Ohio today and to St Louis tomorrow to visit Susans high school friend Ellen.
We are back on Interstate 80 and will turn south at Youngstown Ohio towards Columbia and then to indianapolis on way to St Louis
Monday, May 9, 2011
People in the picture
This is a great musical about Poland and Jews during world war II. If on New York, we highly recommend.
Blogger now on our Droid
This makes it easier to post. Things are so green and beautiful. The whether has been perfect.
HEADING TO THE CATSKILLS
We're taking cousin Natalie to her summer home in the CATSKILLS. Natalie has a winter home in Florida and shipped her car in advance of flying up last Friday. We'll spend the night and return to our apartment tomorrow night. There's a beautiful lake and there should be lots of birds to see.
Happy mother's day
We went to brunch at this environmentally friendly cafe with great food. Then returned to the cloisters and a tour by a Columbia phd student. Then took cousins to dinner followed by dessert in this 1904 Italian bakery
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Another show we saw
Suzanne Vega’s ‘Carson McCullers Talks About Love’ via NYTimes.com
“Carson McCullers Talks About Love” opens on Thursday at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, where it’s scheduled to run through June 4. The 90-minute play features Ms. Vega alternating between monologue and songs, backed by two musicians, recounting McCullers’s complex life. McCullers, who died in 1967 at 50, broke ground with her depictions of solitude, unrequited love, physical disability and repressed homosexuality. She also faced frequent illness and the suicide of her husband.
Nice singing but a fractured story line. Still waiting to read the reviews
Freud's Last Session
This play imagines a meeting between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis. The two men debate the nature of God and life.
Again, the acting was great; lots of humor and thought provoking.
This show is "Off Broadway" at a theater on the Upper Westside a couple blocks from Lincoln Center. We would recommend this one as well.
PS - the seats in this theater were most comfortable.
Again, the acting was great; lots of humor and thought provoking.
This show is "Off Broadway" at a theater on the Upper Westside a couple blocks from Lincoln Center. We would recommend this one as well.
PS - the seats in this theater were most comfortable.
The Normal Heart
The Broadway show we saw a week ago Monday....
This is a Broadway premiere of an old groundbreaking play that focusses on the early years of the AIDS outbreak in New York and the silence of America's political and media powers in addessing the issue. Whe it first showed at the New York Public Theater, the Play was a critical sensation and a seminal moment in theater history. Joel Gray directs the show as he was in the original production twenty years ago.
The leads were nominated for best actor in a play in the Tony Award nominations annouced yesterday. It was very moving and the cast was great. It was very powerful in its message, even today.
The author, Larry Kramer was out in front of the theater after the show passing out letters about the pharmacy industry and the lack of affordable medications for AIDS treatment. He is still an activist. He did not look like a famous author but rather some old hippie that came to the show to protest.
It was another exciting NYC experience.
This is a Broadway premiere of an old groundbreaking play that focusses on the early years of the AIDS outbreak in New York and the silence of America's political and media powers in addessing the issue. Whe it first showed at the New York Public Theater, the Play was a critical sensation and a seminal moment in theater history. Joel Gray directs the show as he was in the original production twenty years ago.
The leads were nominated for best actor in a play in the Tony Award nominations annouced yesterday. It was very moving and the cast was great. It was very powerful in its message, even today.
The author, Larry Kramer was out in front of the theater after the show passing out letters about the pharmacy industry and the lack of affordable medications for AIDS treatment. He is still an activist. He did not look like a famous author but rather some old hippie that came to the show to protest.
It was another exciting NYC experience.
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Bengal Tigar was our first Broadway play during our month. We saw it our first day in NYC about two-and-a-half weeks ago. Our brother-in-law Bob went with us while Carol and Maddy decided to go to La Cage Aux Folles instead. (Susan and I saw La Cage previously)
The play follows a tiger as he haunts the streets of Baghdad seeking the meaning of life. As he witnesses the puzzling absurdities of war, the tigar encounters Americans and Iraqis who are searching for friendship and redemption. By the end of the show, all are ghosts.
The show was funny and heavy at the same time. Robin Williams is wonderful in the show though he was NOT nominated for a Tony Award (Oscar's for live theater); the nominations came out yesterday.
PS we caught pictures of Robin Williams him after he left the theater. They are already posted.
After the show we went to a Deli for some giant desserts.
PSS - Carol, Bob, and Maddy live in Woodland Hills (LA) and were in NYC the first week. They arrived the same day as we pulled into town. Maddy came to spend some time with Rose at Columbia. She starts SF State this coming Fall. Happy Birthday Maddy - you're 18 today
The play follows a tiger as he haunts the streets of Baghdad seeking the meaning of life. As he witnesses the puzzling absurdities of war, the tigar encounters Americans and Iraqis who are searching for friendship and redemption. By the end of the show, all are ghosts.
The show was funny and heavy at the same time. Robin Williams is wonderful in the show though he was NOT nominated for a Tony Award (Oscar's for live theater); the nominations came out yesterday.
PS we caught pictures of Robin Williams him after he left the theater. They are already posted.
After the show we went to a Deli for some giant desserts.
PSS - Carol, Bob, and Maddy live in Woodland Hills (LA) and were in NYC the first week. They arrived the same day as we pulled into town. Maddy came to spend some time with Rose at Columbia. She starts SF State this coming Fall. Happy Birthday Maddy - you're 18 today
The Metropolitian Opera: Il Trovatore
We both saw opera for the first time last week. After consultanting with people "in the know", we selected Il Trovatorefor our first experience. The opera was sold out so we selected standing room. We had to show up the morning of the performance to buy the standing room tickets. It is "assigned" standing. Every has a specific place to stand and has a little table (sort of a narrow version of a bar ) in from of them to lien against and to read the subtitles that appear on a little screen attached to the lip of the "table". The location is at the back of the orchestra section - given the Met is six stories high, they are good "seats".
The opera was fastastic. The four leads all had powerful voices and are well known among opera goers. The opera house is beautiful though from our location we missed seeing the lights going into the ceiling before the show.
We both agreed it was a wonderful experience and we would go to the opera again but would try and get some seats the next time - standing for over two hours is difficult.
The opera was fastastic. The four leads all had powerful voices and are well known among opera goers. The opera house is beautiful though from our location we missed seeing the lights going into the ceiling before the show.
We both agreed it was a wonderful experience and we would go to the opera again but would try and get some seats the next time - standing for over two hours is difficult.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Two full days at the Met
One day was not enough for us, we had to spend two. And even with two days we did not see all of the art. The impressionists are fantastic. For art lovers - its like Disneyland. We ate lunch in the members lounge. The Egyptian section was SUPER.
Monday, May 2, 2011
NYC
We have just finished two weeks in NYC and three since we left home. We went to our first opera, have seen two Broadway plays and two off Broadway musicals//plays. We went to two performances at Columbia; one was the Gospel choir that Rose sings in. We've gone to two museums - MOMA and the Guttenheim and two great art galleries. We went to the Jewish Museum, Ellis Island via the Statute of Liberty, and Ground Zero. We3 went to an oration present by former Governor Mario Commo (Father of the current Governor). We've walked miles and climbed thousands of steps.
New York City Pictures set #3
Its been a while - here is a link to the third set of NYC pictures. These have no headers or captions - sorry.
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=glevpalmer&target=ALBUM&id=5601375127288416753&authkey=Gv1sRgCMWVw-nHuPapgwE&feat=email
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=glevpalmer&target=ALBUM&id=5601375127288416753&authkey=Gv1sRgCMWVw-nHuPapgwE&feat=email
Saturday, April 23, 2011
New York City Picture set #2
Here's the second batch of NYC pictures with captions so you know what you are looking at
Friday, April 22, 2011
New York City Picture set #1
OK - the pictures were posted out of order. This is the first set of pictures when we arrived in New York. They are all taken the same day; on Sunday, April 17. AND for the first time they are labeled so you know what you're actually looking at. Enjoy. Here's the link:
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=glevpalmer&target=ALBUM&id=5598379117726861249&authkey=Gv1sRgCJLe68mMwqPjSA&feat=email
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=glevpalmer&target=ALBUM&id=5598379117726861249&authkey=Gv1sRgCJLe68mMwqPjSA&feat=email
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Dairy Restaurant
This morning started with breakfast at a dairy kosher restaurant down from our apartment called B&H. Here's the discription from New York Magazine:
With its primary-colored 1950s plastic sign proclaiming “Better Health,” B&H diner is a relic from a time when the East Village was more working class Ukrainian than privileged university undergrads. The shoebox-sized kosher dairy restaurant is one of many that once peppered Manhattan. Today, more than 60 years since it opened (and despite its lapsed kosher certification), a largely Hispanic staff continue to turn out Yiddish comfort-staples: crisp latkes, knishes the size of pillbox hats, and plump pierogis your bubby might serve. Bowls of vegetarian borscht and lima bean and two of the half-dozen daily soups add spots of color. A rotating cast fills the dozen stools and the six small tables that hug the opposite wall. Weekend nights and brunch hours draw scruffy, pre or post bar-hopping sorts hunched over eggs and home fries, challah French toast, blintzes, or matzoh brei. Midweek is more Hopperesque, the profiles of solo diners washed in the sallow glow of the diner’s hanging milk-colored lights. No matter when you step up to the counter, a double stack of sweet-soft challah, schmeared with butter and served on a small Dixie plate, accompanies every order. The motto “Better Health” could be taken ironically if not for the juice bar—which provides wheatgrass shots and fresh juices to a steady stream of to-go customers—and that zingy borscht, light on the sour cream, thank you.
Jews (who are kosher) are not supposed to serve milk and meat together. Hence the dairy service/restaurant/meal. A Jewish dairy restaurant wouldn't serve any meat products so that it's kosher. For some reason, according to Jewish law, fish (with scales, etc, no shellfish) can be served with dairy, so you will find tuna, salmon, pickled herring, mackeral, etc. in a dairy restaurant.
With its primary-colored 1950s plastic sign proclaiming “Better Health,” B&H diner is a relic from a time when the East Village was more working class Ukrainian than privileged university undergrads. The shoebox-sized kosher dairy restaurant is one of many that once peppered Manhattan. Today, more than 60 years since it opened (and despite its lapsed kosher certification), a largely Hispanic staff continue to turn out Yiddish comfort-staples: crisp latkes, knishes the size of pillbox hats, and plump pierogis your bubby might serve. Bowls of vegetarian borscht and lima bean and two of the half-dozen daily soups add spots of color. A rotating cast fills the dozen stools and the six small tables that hug the opposite wall. Weekend nights and brunch hours draw scruffy, pre or post bar-hopping sorts hunched over eggs and home fries, challah French toast, blintzes, or matzoh brei. Midweek is more Hopperesque, the profiles of solo diners washed in the sallow glow of the diner’s hanging milk-colored lights. No matter when you step up to the counter, a double stack of sweet-soft challah, schmeared with butter and served on a small Dixie plate, accompanies every order. The motto “Better Health” could be taken ironically if not for the juice bar—which provides wheatgrass shots and fresh juices to a steady stream of to-go customers—and that zingy borscht, light on the sour cream, thank you.
Jews (who are kosher) are not supposed to serve milk and meat together. Hence the dairy service/restaurant/meal. A Jewish dairy restaurant wouldn't serve any meat products so that it's kosher. For some reason, according to Jewish law, fish (with scales, etc, no shellfish) can be served with dairy, so you will find tuna, salmon, pickled herring, mackeral, etc. in a dairy restaurant.
The original Yiddish is "milchika" or "milchadika" for dairy and "fleishika" or "fleishadika" for meat. Fish can be served with dairy but (for the traditional, at least) not with meat.
The direct translation of "milchadika" is "dairy", so it became "dairy restaurant".
Monday, April 18, 2011
Happy Passover
We had a great sedar. Hope all of you are well. Now heading downtown from Columbia University.
New York, New York
Yes, we're here. Arrived yesterday around noon and full day ahead of schedule. Spent the afternoon at the "Upper West End Street Fair" which was great. Went to a super Thai Food dinner and then out to a place that makes alcolholic milkshakes with Rose's room mate and ger mom
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Mt Rushmore at night
How can you have a population on 1?
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