August 13, 2008

• The New York Chronicles:  Life of an OC Girl in NYC
  Entry 16
  

  I apologize for falling behind on blogging.  I owe it to at least Helen and KimChi since I make them blog for me... LOL.  Also since my blogs are Anh's morning reads I should update so she has something to read.  Hee hee.  It's harder now that I've got work.  I come home, cook, we eat family style (which entails waiting for each person to get home), clean up, and do whatever else afterward until I get tired.
  

  I made an observation at work.  Our elevators will hold about 12 people until people stop trying to get in.  Haha.  3 rows of 4 people standing side by side.  I don't know why, but I would count how many people are in the elevator when it hits capacity.  Another obvious observation is that I'm usually the smallest.  Go figure.

  The weather.  Oh, the weather has been good to us.  My expectations were that the weather was going to be super hot like "Vietnam" with humidity levels up to 100%.  Thanks for trying to scare me everyone, but I can do this!  I can do... this!  I think what also helps is that I'm not really walking around ALL day like tourists are.  I'm working indoors in an air conditioned building and I only have to walk a couple blocks to the subway stations.  So now when you tell New Yorkers it's way too hot/humid to live in New York and they tell you it's bearable, it's because they're not walking around all day like you are.  Makes sense, huh?

  Summer days also allow you to eat outside at cute restaurants like this.

  
  

  Everyone really takes advantage of the summer before winter hits and it gets too cold to go outside for activities.  On one of our great summer days, I met up with a few friends at the Great Lawn in Central Park to play some games.  Then headed over to Sheep Meadow to meet up with Cousin Thuy and Cousin Thomas who was visiting from Houston.  Central Park is so huge that we tell each other which area we'll be at so we can find each other hence The Great Lawn and Sheep Meadow.  There are many others too.  Central Park turns into a whole nother world in the summer.  So many people are out there just to lay out, play games, have picnics... it's amazing.

  Family (check out all the people in the background enjoying a beautiful day in the park)
  

  

  
  

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  Dan took his last CPA test so we took him out to eat to celebrate.  He was studying so hard.  Those of you who know him know that this guy studies like a robot. 
  

  

  
  

  So we've had quite a few visitors since my last entry... a total of 6 from my last entry.  Two of them were MyAnh and MyKha.  My two little dearest cousins visited us thanks to my wonderful Aunt Tina for buying their tickets.  We grew up together so we have a strong bond filled with so much love (sorry for the sap).  They stayed for 8 days and had a great time.  Their main reason for picking the dates they did was so they could watch The Dark Knight movie on opening night with their Anh Dan.  Haha.
  
  On Wednesday night before the opening of The Dark Knight, we took the kids to Thompkins Square Park in the East Village so that we could watch Batman Begins. 
  
  

  We arrived at the theater 4 hours early to get good seats.  Here the boys are representin'.  Haha.
  

  

  Of course we did other things.  We went site seeing, walked the Brooklyn Bridge, watched Avenue Q on Broadway, ate yummy food, went to the museum, and much more.
  Note:  These kids will be the only ones I am taking to the Statue of Liberty.  It would be sucky if I had to go every single time a visitor came.  Haha. 
  

  

  

  
  

  For Isai's birthday, 10 of us headed to New Jersey for Great Adventures for a fun thrill-filled day of roller coasters.

  

  After the Batman ride, Elena had a massive bronchitis attack so we took her to first aid.  A long while later, the nurse comes out and asks if I'm Anne.  I say yes and she proceeds to tell me that I need to go in the ambulance with Elena to the emergency room!  Ahhhh!  So I left with Elena in the ambulance while Isai, Dan, and Nam drove to the hospital in Elena's car.  The other car stayed because they didn't know we left.  I might not have ridden all the rides at Great Adventures, but I DID get to sit shotty in an ambulance... LOL.  I was at the hospital for most of the day.   

  Here we are at the hospital in New Jersey

  

  
  A special day arrived.  Tina's birthday!  We ate at Carmine's on the upper west side aka uws.  One good thing about moving to NYC is getting to know and hang out with Tina more.  I knew her back in OC, but more so as Duy's cousin.  Tina is a very talented fashionista.  She's a stylist for Tyra Banks.  Yup, she gets paid to shop and tell Tyra what to wear and even accompany her to the Emmy's!  You go girl!

  

  

  
  Until entry 17 folks!  I've had 4 more visitors since MyAnh and Mykha and more events to update about.
  

  Toodles from me and hubs!
  
  
  
  

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