Memorial Day

We had a memorable Memorial Day, starting with the West Hartford town parade - a real small-town experience with Daisy, Brownie and Girl Scout troops, sports teams, etc.  Then we went to Karyn and Melissa's for a BBQ and discovered that Adam likes to play badminton.  After, we drove to NYC to play with Hannah and Micah.  They are so cute!  Yes, they ate a topless dinner, but then we played with balls and read stories. So much fun. Yaffa and Ravid came over (after bedtime) and we enjoyed dinner with Lauren, Scott, and Yael. It's so nice to eat kosher food from a restaurant - we are so lame in Hartford. Anyway, then we toured Yaffa's apartment - very nice. And we were her first house guests.  That was a packed day!  Now someone just has to teach me how to load the pictures on blogger so they are in the right order. So annoying.

Sharing some pictures and I met The Nanny!

OK, I wrote this whole post and it disappeared. Not fun. So I'm starting again and I don't care that I can't get the pictures in the right order. What do we have here? Some pictures from Adam's Carnegie Hall concert - how wonderful that he was on the poster in the streets of NYC! He's still on a high from that wonderful experience.  We have some pictures here from our birthdays. Adam came home from kosher Chinese to a candle in pareve ice cream, and after he and I went out for dinner for my b-day, we met Ray, Craig, and Rachel for ice cream (of course). We have some pictures of the adorable Hannah and Micah, who love to say "cheese!" and they were so much fun to play with this week.  And finally, tonight I met THE NANNY! OK, I didn't really meet her, but I joined the local female rabbis and cantors in singing the anthems and then I did HaMotzi.  She was a great speaker - this was a Federation event and there were 600 women there.  It was very powerful for me to stand on the stage and sing with all of these women. Fran Drescher spoke about growing up Jewish and about having cancer. She's a role model for women everywhere. Check her out!  In any case, I'm relieved I've finally figured out how to make this post, and I'm sorry the pictures are all over the place. We'll get there one day.  Oh, and happy birthday, Israel! Today is the secular independence day - May 14 - how wonderful.

We're older and Petula Clark is older than that

Adam and I both got older in the past few weeks. He turned 29 forever and I hit 31. Yikes. But that's ok. We celebrated in style. Adam was craving Chinese food (hard to find kosher Chinese in these here parts) so we drove almost 2 hours each way to New Rochelle for Eden Wok (definitely worth it).  We stayed local for my birthday dinner and ended the night with ice cream with friends. Then tonight we went out to celebrate (an extension of my birthday and) our 6 months of being married! We drove an hour to Mohegan Sun (the casino) and went to the Petula Clark concert. Let me just say that I have always loved her, and that when I went to her concert in 2005, I thought she was amazing. Well I'm not sure what it was, but she was not good, and the audience never really warmed up to her.  The sound was poorly mixed so we couldn't really hear her. And the whole act seemed old. Oh well. Adam and I were definitely the youngest in the audience. Then we went to grab a snack and found ourselves in the loudest bar in the world - we had to leave it was so bad. Maybe we are really old. I'm not sure what generation we're in anymore. I just know that I'm exhausted from this adventure!  Here's hoping our year ahead is not too loud and is not poorly mixed, but is just right. :)