I Heart New York & Bean Town

After the marathon Brent, Lori and, and I went down to NY to see the sights. We stayed with our cousin Tara who's husband is attending Columbia University. We really enjoyed visiting Tara and her little girl is super cute.

We thought that we we're going to see the Letterman Show as we were second in a huge line for standby tickets but not a single person got in. We were bummed. We did get a whirlwind NYC experience checking out Central Park, Times Square, Empire State Building, Battery Park (the Statue of Liberty at a distance), Wall Street, Ground Zero, Brooklyn (Grimaldi's pizza was amazing), Greenwich Village, SoHo, The Seinfield restaurant (Tom's), just to name a few things!

We also toured around Boston but didn't get many pictures due to rain. We did take a few pictures downtown near Boston Common on Beacon street right before heading to the airport...That was a good weather day!

Marathon Monday

My brother Brent totally rocked the Boston Marathon finishing it up in only 3hrs 5min!  It was awesome for Brent and Lori to visit all the way from SLC along with my other brother Krister and his wife Sheri who drove up from Philly.  

We had a couple pre-marathon parties which included a lot of eating and hanging out.  We made it down town to Mike's Pastries and had a great Italian dinner in the North End.  

 

  

The bib pinning ceremony: 

 

 

Let the race begin!

 

  

Brent near the finish:

scrub da floor!

The past three days I've become obsessed with getting my kitchen floors clean.  I've mopped, scowered, and scrubbed too many times to count but nothing was really getting the decades of dirt off these floors.  Recently I got a tip from my cousin who also lives in a pre-war building.  She was battling this very same problem and found that steel wool did the trick.  

(You might have to get the right angle on your computer screen to see the contrast in the following pictures. In person the clean to dirty difference is disgustingly dramatic.)

I am only about a quarter of the way complete but I am too sore to continue.  

At this pace I might be done a month from now but it will be worth it!