Awaiting winter..

The temperature is dropping. It's not enough to break out a jacket but better than summer. Not much went on last weekend. Capone went to the vet for a broken and infected nail. Unfortunately they had to pull it off. Poor puppy was walking around with a club foot for a while, but now he has been set free from the bandages.

This weekend we went downtown for an art and music festival. Once we got there we were disappointed by the turnout of vendors. I started scrap booking again on Sunday and got a jump start on my Christmas cards.
We have been watching so many movies since we switched to basic cable. Netflix has been really great. A few movie recommendations... King of Scotland, A Painted Veil, The Pianist and The Departed. I will keep you informed about others. Oh yeah!! Little Miss Sunshine was a little silly, but had some funny parts.
Jesse brought home a pumpkin so we carved it Saturday night. I am hoping to scare off the kids.. LOL

We love New York

There was never a shortage of things to do and see on our trip. Irene and Fred were so good to us. I loved meeting them and we will see them when they come to Florida in January. The view from their condo was amazing. We arrived late on Sat and walked at least 20 blocks before dinner. We saw Rockefeller Center, New York Library (the outside only), Grand Central Station and St Patricks Cathedral.Sun we spent at the Guggenheim, (they were doing major construction on most of the buildings) The Metropolitan Museum, Zabars, Lincoln Center (where Jesse was sitting and having a snack) and walked through Central Park to Strawberry Fields.
If it wasn't for Irene and Fred we wouldn't have gone to as many museums as we did..
Monday we went to the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Wall St, Ground Zero, China town and Little Italy. There was a street festival down wall street for Columbus Day. Jesse managed to get footage. I will attach a video.

Tue we spent at the Museum of Natural History. Let me tell you we were getting very tired and our feet were killing us.. lolWe also went to the flat iron building, Times Square and Madison Square Gardensbefore going to see Chicago on Broadway.






Wed is when everything slowed down a little. We took a tour of the UN and had the chance to sit in on one of the meetings. It was China and Great Britain. We also went to the New York Library again to see the inside and Carnegie Deli where Jesse took a picture for Joaquin. We had dinner in Little Italy with Fred and Irene.Thursday it was off to the Jewish Museum and upper Central Park. We went back home for a rest and walked around town later that night.



Friday was the last day to run around and fit everything in.. We left early and went to the Museum of Modern Art. We also went to the Empire State Building and waited for 2 hours to get up to the top and see the view. I wouldn't recommend the trip up.... We finished our day with a little Zabars and back home..

Response to Joaquin's blog that he blocks comments on and takes the "blog" out of blogging

I totally disagree. We are just as successful on the War on Drugs as we have been on the War on Terrorism. Haven't you heard about all of the poppy fields in Afghanistan that Saddam personally cultivated? After Saddam bombed Oklahoma (yes, I know that was a while ago but he did it, I swear!) he sold a sh'load of weed to a bunch of hippies, I saw it for myself. Our next campaign, if you are interested, is going to be the "War on Prostitution". Even more so than the millions of dollars each city drops on their own Vice units. You might think to yourself, how can I pick a side? It doesn't effect me? Wrong!! You are either with us or against us!! We want more laws and agencies to support the existing laws and agencies to really crack down on BJs and possibly even straight sex encounters that did not come from a loving relationship, or at least toward the end of an expensive meal or a "connection" made .."it was like I have known him/her my whole life"... You can buy the $50 bottle of wine to intoxicate and damper the other person's morals, but $20 with no tax revenue to a "lady" who doesn't even have the dignity to giggle and flirt over two hours before-hand in disgraceful.
I think I have made my point, and lets get on board before this whole sex trade thing gets out of hand. It is a new phenomenon, just like the intoxicants trade, and we can stop it in every city and small town. Now go vote for one of the two major parties to make it happen!!!!

My sight seeing in South Africa continued..

Day 2 was full of more sight seeing and shopping. We saw several more water falls, among these were the Lisbon Falls, Horseshoe falls and Berlin Falls.In between Falls we had lunch at a pancake place that served salty and sweet pancakes.
Each of these sites took hours to get to between driving and hiking.This site is the Mac Mac pools which were also called pot holes. These holes in the ground were natural springs that people were swimming in... Too cold!!

We ended the second day equally exhausted. Our last day we woke at 3:30 and headed to Krugar National Park for our Safari. I won't speak much about the animals. I will just post as many pictures as possible for your enjoyment.Oh quickly I will just say that we stopped for lunch and sat under a tiki hut. I looked up and saw the Bats sleeping peacefully.














That's the end of the trip and I hope you enjoyed the pictures. Jesse and I are off this weekend for New York. We will be gone a week and hoping to see the whole city. We will share our pictures when we get back.