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Chez David's

For dinner, we headed over to David and Adriana's. David and I have bumped into each other from time to time, but it's been a long time since really hanging out, and the very first in NY! I was honored to see them in their sweet new pad. Since it was drizzling, and Tesla was snoozing, we opted to have our dinner delivered. I'm liking this aspect of NY. Just ring up and voila...yummy dinner. We had Thai. Alaina kindly joined us too. I'm not so into games, but when I saw their Wii, I had to try...it was indeed fun. Now I finally have a sense of what all the fuss is about, but I won't be running out to get it as I just don't have time! Then, David brought out his Dance Dance Revolution game, and a Japanese drumming game. Their idea was to somehow hook up both DDR and Wii, so one would play that at the same time. Crazy talk! Unfortunately, it couldn't be done easily. I'm so horrible at such, but it was good fun, and pretty funny to watch each other. I can see how it would be very addicting to get together with friends and play, and play, and play, and play...

Dec 22, 2006 10:13:24 PM

Karina

After the museum, we walked 35 blocks to Stephan and Karina's. We got to see cute Jett who is 3, with the most adorable curly hair ever. Her younger (younger than Tesla!) brother Syrus was feeling a little under the weather today, but he seemed content for quite some time in Dav's lap. There were 2 other girls there, playing with Jet. The pictures don't express at all how playfully chaotic it was since the rainy weather forced Jet and her friends to play indoors in the relatively small living room. Before we knew it, there was playdoh everywhere! I can't imagine what life is gonna be like when Tesla starts running around, having playgroups, using toys, etc. It will be a different world for my dear kitties for sure. It was super nice to talk (in between caring for the kids) about babies, kids, marriage, etc. Good to have cool friends going through similar life stages. We look forward to seeing this family on the playa all together soon : )

Dec 22, 2006 9:59:18 PM

Museum of Natural History

In the afternoon, we headed to the Museum of Natural History. I loved the dino bones, and the room with the gigantic true-sized whale. However, although seeing the beauty of what our natural world has to offer brings awe, most exhibits mentioned how global warming and destruction of nature is destroying what we were seeing in the museum. It was pretty depressing. What I loved most by far was watching Tesla stare at everything with such curious eyes. She is too young to comprehend anything we saw there, but she was looking at all the new shapes, colors and sizes. She promptly conked out in the dino bone exhibit though. The last picture is actually a video that I'll get up later (video uploading isn't working yet). It's of her in the butterfly room, looking all over at the moving butterflies. It was like wonderland for her.

Dec 22, 2006 9:24:38 PM

Stephan

We had a big day today...started out by first visiting Stephan's office in Chelsea. We met Stephan and Karina via Campalicious. They now live in NY with their daughter Jet and son Syrus. Stephan's company, Thinking Pictures, makes very cool interactive video screens gaining popularity in Europe and Asia, used at cinemas to promote upcoming films. The screens adapt to whether there is zero, one, or a group in front of it, and can do a variety of "smart" video streaming. The company is also working on streaming screens on clothing. For now it's for promoting products, but Dav and Stephan got excited about other more creative uses for such digital clothing. Tesla observed all this, and I kept thinking how digital clothing might be completely normal for her, while here we were looking at bulky prototypes. The office was huge and located in a old biscuit factory. Very beautifully renovated. The building had great soup and bread shops downstairs too.

Dec 22, 2006 9:23:12 PM

Washington Square Park

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Dec 21, 2006 12:00:10 PM

Booth Theatre

Omg! We are in the 1st row. I will not be able to take pics (I think...)

Dec 20, 2006 5:04:00 PM

Chez great grandmother Laura

We flew to DC to visit my grandmother, and introduce Tesla. My grandmother usually lives in TN, but for 3 months, she's been in DC close to where she used to live so she can hang with her writer friends. Unfortunately, she got sick and was out of it for 2 months... and she's going back to TN next week. So she really only got a couple of weeks to enjoy being here. Super bummer. We were all excited to have Tesla meet her great grandmother though. Tesla took a quick liking to her, and I think my grandmother was smitten too. What I forgot to calculate when reserving tickets was that an early flight meant REALLY early for us since we're still on pacific time. So in reality, we woke up at 2am to get ready. And on the way back, our flight back was delayed several times (after we boarded so we just sat there FOREVER), and once near NYC, we had to wait for 45 minutes or so to even land. Next time we're taking the train for sure. All was worth it though!

Dec 20, 2006 9:05:50 AM