Meet Me at the Chelsea Hotel

Di and Jen stopped into town for a Chelsea Hotel experience. Truly living like rock stars! What an amazing place! Each room is different. Art everywhere. The history alone gives you goose-bumps. We found out that part of the building is apartments and the other part is the hotel. Incredible place and worth a stay.

Chelsea Hotel

Spring is in full swing!

Spring has been packed full of playing! Here's the latest and greatest!
Feeling brave along with our fellow Seattle transplant friends Ethan and Elin, we supported our Mariners in the Bronx. Oh, our Mariners were hurting on the field. Yankee fans were handing us tissue.

We had friends fly in from Detroit and L.A. Chad's friend Kevin had an amazing documentary premiere in the Tribeca Film Festival. Check out "Playing for Change".
Playing For Change

D.C. bound for a Drive By Truckers show. We experienced "the Chinatown bus". Basically, there's several bus companies that will take you from one Chinatown to another (Boston, D.C., Philly). Here's the secret on the cheap tickets. They load the cargo storage with produce. Seriously, at 7a.m. our bus became a traveling fruit stand. Safely arriving in D.C. our friend Epstein showed us the sights. The DBT show...awesome.

Rock Shows, plays and other stuff to look at!
Music
"Sympho" experimental symphony where the musicians stand in the round and the audience sit around not in front. Loved it.
Drive by Truckers
Bishop Allen (Indie Band)
Firewater (Brooklyn Band)
sympho
Plays
"Endgame" at BAM (our favorite venue) with John Turturro. Amazing actor and incredible experience.
Endgame
"Sizwe Banzi is Dead" South African play that made its last run at the BAM
Sizwe Banzi is Dead"
Art

Brooklyn Museum:Murakami Exhibit-Japanese Pop Art
Brooklyn Museum

Park Slope Filming

A movie crew took over Park Slope for a day. A film called "Julie and Julia" caused a buzzzz with neighbors looking for famous folks hanging out in the Slope. I saw no one. The stars of the film are Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.
Julie and Julia

Don't Be Strange on the Train

April was not the final ballroom dancing performance!The team won the first district dance-off. They received a gold. With matching dresses and suits our crew got on the subway...just like the movie. Except our teachers were yelling "don't be strange on the train". Hopefully NYC MTA will market that phrase.

We're Moving Back!

April Fool! Hahaha. You knew that was coming. The latest and greatest. Brooklyn has been warm. The garbage is beginning to smell! Welcome Spring! PS 93 just finished their ballroom dancing session. Lets just say Mad Hot Ballroom will be not knocking on our doors if they are making another movie. But the kids were cute in their suits and dresses for the final performance.
Mad Hot Ballroom
Wedding plans are moving along. We have a date. July 11,2009 in downtown DETROIT! Our ceremony and reception will be at Masonic Temple which is a historical building in the dirty-d. It's a really wild place with tons of rooms, chambers and creepy hallways. Plus roller derby! An experience it will be!
Wedding Location

I Don't Want to Visit Here!

OK I'm having a hard time with the DOE NYC (Department of Ed)but nothing like what these folks are experiencing. Check it out.
RubberRoomMovie
Remember that I'm sitting in a classroom with one computer, an overhead that doesn't work and little supplies.

Two Month Update!

Goodness time has past very quickly! Chad has flown to Seattle three times. I've traveled to Detroit and Seattle. Chad's classes are going really well. PS 93 is keeping me busy. Overall, the NYC winter months have been mild to allow for tons of play. We've been exploring this crazy place.

Here's an update
People Sightings:
-Kate Walsh from Grey's at the play "Homecoming" where Ian Mcshane (Deadwood) and Michael Mclean (Best in Show etc.)were the leads.

Things we've heard:
-Carnegie Hall triple encore for this symphony from Amsterdam. The gray hairs were going nuts...a near stage rush! Bravo! Chad and I couldn't hang with the 70 and over crowd after the second encore.
-George Saunders spoke about his writing. He admitted to writing most of his first novel at this really boring job.

Things we've seen:
-MoMa
-"Macbeth" with Patrick Swewart from Star Trek
-"Happy Days" one woman Samuel Beckett play in which the woman was buried in dirt for the entire show.
-"Homecoming" with Ian Mcshane...he is one mean man.

Things that were NYC interesting:
-I saw no large amounts of snow this winter.
-We "went live" with our food at a vegetarian restaurant. Basically nothing was cooked. It was a raw food experience.
-The Citi card commercial shot in the Fall is on T.V. When you see the cute couple order "elf" food at the fancy restaurant then run into a deli to grab real food. Well the deli is our little grocery. So much hype that night for a two second shot.
-VOTING IN NYC IS SO OLD SCHOOL! Check out our voting booth. I had to ask how to use it and in a typical Brooklyn way the guy made fun me.