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Our life in the city has continued to be busy, adventurous, and astonishing.  Michelle (friend from back home) came out for a visit, and we spent a couple days walking all over the city.  We discovered a delicious little donut shop, and a great Italian restaurant not far from our place.  It was a great visit, with beautiful weather.  

I recently had a particularly entertaining afternoon outing, as I went out to explore a section of Brooklyn.   I jumped on the subway near our apartment, a few stops down as we waited at the platform I was looking out the window.  Standing against the wall in the dingy, litter strewn subway station were a rather unkempt looking man and woman.  What really drew my attention to these two was their posture and particularly the look on her face.  His back was to me, head tilted slightly to his left as he leaned into her.  She had her head cocked slightly opposite his, with her eyes closed.  I was witnessing a couple kissing, or at least that's what one would first assume.  But, there was something off about it.  As I focused in, there was something off about it, I could see her mouth fully and clearly.  The train began to pull away giving me an oblique view of the real passion, his hand giving a between the legs massage.

That alone would have made the trip memorable, but there was more to come.  After departing the train in Brooklyn, and after a little bit of exploration I needed to find a restroom.  I was lucky enough to be near a major shopping center and mall.  After locating the restroom I was making my way back outside when one of these guys...........

.............well, I guess it was really just some guy dressed like them said "Excuse me, are you Jewish?".  Its not the first, or probably the last time I will have that asked of me.  

This last Sunday we went and experienced a Giants football game.  Elizabeth's cousin was kind enough to give us his season tickets for the weeks game.  It was a great time, gorgeous day to be out there too. (Seth, a little public transit info for you.  We got on the 2/3 subway train to Penn Station, there we got tickets for a NJ Transit train that took us to Secaucus Station where we then transferred to a train that goes right to the Meadowlands/MetLife Stadium.  Round-trip for both of us was $30, takes about an hour of travel time, to go 15 miles.)

Michelle, Elizabeth and me in Central Park.

The Bee Hive (guys on dirt bikes, four wheelers  and street bikes).  Notice the two on the four wheeler on the sidewalk at the bottom of picture, and the guys on the wrong side of the road.

Now this made me feel at home, a box elder bug landing on my glasses as we rode the train.  Just hope I didn't bring it with me from back home.

Us at the Giants v Redskins game, with 82,000 others.

I can't say I have been busy, just too lazy to post.  So, since the last post we spent Labor Day weekend at the Jersey Shore(fist pump).  We were invited to stay at Elizabeth's cousins house down on the shore.  This was really great, we got out of the city, the town we stayed in was really nice, the beaches are great (even if they do charge you $8 to use them) and Liam (Elizabeth's cousin) and his wife Suzy were awesome hosts.  We learned a lot about 'the shore' culture, college kids and recent grads get a group together and rent houses out for the entire summer paying upfront and then just come in every weekend and party their asses off.  Also, much like the show, there are a great number of people who haven't heard that an over abundance of sun exposure is actually bad for you.  Lots of worn out leather bags walking around there.
We have also in the last month had a number of visitors, all Elizabeth's people (hint, hint), a good friend of Elizabeth's from college, her childhood friends from Silverton also visited, Joanne (Elizabeth's mom) just spent several days with us on her way to Spain, and we recently had dinner with a friend of Mike's (Elizabeth's brother) from Spain who was visiting NYC.  In the in-between time Elizabeth has been busy at work, currently working in the pediatric emergency room, and I continue achieving great success at my house husband duties.

Twilight on the Jersey shore.

Fist pumping at the Jersey shore.

The Jersey shore.

 Ambulance loading up some guy laying in the road outside our apartment.

 Coffee shop from Seinfeld.

 Best view of the city, leaving it!

The Statue of Liberty from the Staten Island Ferry.

Coming back to the city.

Having fun on an empty subway car.