Trip to america!

Central park, on my way to Cooper Hewitt Design museum


Times square- interactive billboard. I'm the one with my arm raised, next to my friend in a red shirt.


Visiting the Liberty Bell with Denise and Grace in Philadelphia

New York

walked thru central park,

went to cooper-hewitt museum,

listened to a talk by Jeff Hollander on his new book: The Responsibility Revolution: How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win.

ate pizza and berry dessert,

happy button

I found this remote at our workshop where product samples (that I design) are made. It goes to the air conditioner... I think.

Hangzhou

We went for a 1.5 day weekend trip to Hangzhou, 1.5 hrs outside the city by train. Itt was wonderful!

BBQ!

I won't even show the photo of the george foreman burgers compared to T's bbq'd ones. They can't even compare! A friend of ours graciously gave us his old BBQ as someone gave him theirs. We bought charcoal and scrounged for newspaper(which we don't read) to start it up. T did a great job and it was wonderful! A few of our friends helped us make the shrimp/bellpepper kabobs for the grill.

it Smells like summer!

T's birthday

T turned 30 last weekend, and we had a simple dinner + dessert party with some friends. We began at BECA resturant, and then headed back to the apartment. I made a coconut banana cake with whole Blueberry and whip cream filling! It was something I had never done before but turned out wonderful- tangy juicy blueberries and sweet moist cake. The banana was hardly noticeable. I didn't want to pay $10 for food coloring at the import store, and so made letter flags to spell out T's name (which turned out a bit bigger than I imagined)



I also made little flags with T's face and birthday riddles to put in drinks, and hid all over the apt. (By the bathroom sink, in the entryway) So people got a kick out of that. SOmeone also pointed out, if you spin the flag really fast, T looks like Mr. Bean!



Below were the invites as well as beer "labels" for the 20 beer steins we ordered. We tied the "labels" on with ribbon, and guests took them home as souvenirs.



[T and I went on a wild goose chase looking for root "beer" in the city] The phone conversation went like this:
T: Hello, (grocery shop) I'm looking for root beer.
clerk: Ok, I will go look.
T: By the way, its not a beer. I has no alchohol. Its sweet like soda pop.
Clerk: Root beer?
T: A and W? Henry Weinhertz?
Clerk: Sorry, we haven't carried it since 2007. (not true!)

This conversation repeated 4 or 5 times, til we decided it best to go in person and look for ourselves.

Then there was the discussion whethere "Creamy root beer" (By Hansen's) was root beer. What do you think?

timon