New City. New Blog. I think Gregg and I have been busy enough over the last few weeks to fill 5 blog posts. Since our last update we have enjoyed a visit from my parents, packed up our philadelphia apartment, drove a U-Haul to Manhattan and carried all of our belongings up to the 4th floor of our un-airconditioned and elevatorless building. Not an easy or enjoyable task. Which may explain why after two days of attempting to fit four rooms worth of our stuff into one we took off and drove to the midwest for two weeks to enjoy time with our friends, family and space!
Incase you were wondering it is an 18 hour drive from New York City to St. Louis where we stayed at a friends for the night and an additional 4 to Kansas City where we enjoyed four days eating cheesecake on the Plaza, eating hot dogs at a Royals game and eating caramel brownies at my house. We also had the privilege of being schooled by my Grandma in Rumikub and loved seeing my cousin Stephanie and Aunt Virginia who came down for the day.
Next up was Tulsa where we had a great time hanging out with friends and drooling over the spacious houses everyone seems to have acquired during our year in Philly. Gregg was reunited with his real true love, racquetball and I enjoyed painting toe nails and having gigglefests with my girleypoos.
Our final stop was Dallas where Gregg begged me to take him to the Dallas Museum of Art. Fine Gregg, but just this once. We also got to visit a very cool aquarium that once again confirmed my belief that octpuses octopi? are the most horrific looking animals in the sea. The rest of our stay was spent in the swimming pool, enjoying authentic margaritas and preventing a curious cat named Puma from chowing down on a tiny, defenseless hamster named Squishy.
After two weeks of traveling the Midwest on vacation it was very weird to go home to New York City and get back to real life. Upon coming back to the city our apartment seemed hotter and smaller than we remembered it. The loft bed we purchased to save space is too hot to sleep in and has become nothing more than a storage unit for our bed during the day. We drag the mattress to the floor each night and surround ourselves with fans on full blast. We finally installed some window blinds in an attempt to cool down the apartment and prevent the sun from waking us up hours before our alarm clocks would even consider making a sound. It truly is hot out here and were are often tempted to ride the subway up and down the city just to enjoy the air-conditioning.
We're getting used to things and are having a good time exploring not only the area we live in but the rest of the city. One area I would prefer never to "explore" again is the DMV where we spend 3 hours in line to get NY Drivers Licenses. Now that we have internet securely installed we are full speed ahead on our job searches. Gregg is going to be doing some consulting work for the company he worked for in Philadelphia which is really fortunate and I have applied to about 80 million jobs and am expecting a call any day now from at least one of them.
We hope everyone has had a good summer and we'd love to hear from you!
-Libby
Movin' On Up
We're In!!
Barely...
Avoiding the giants playing badminton in KC
Can you guess which one is the true Royals fan?
Kansas Citians + some weirdo
Three girls, a margarita, and Gregg about to hit the floor
The most girly evening EVER
Romos!
Enjoying the wide open spaces of Woodward Park in Tulsa
Gregg and his family at an aquarium that looks eerily like Jurassic Park
Us enjoying the great outdoors.....while inside...
FINALLY!! WE FOUND NEMO!!! Quick. Someone call Marlin
SWEET! I feel so honored to make the first comment on the East Side's hottest new blog. Might I suggest that you guys get one of those little clamp fans for your bed. Libby, upon finding Nemo how could you not release him into the wild? Also, I like the painting next to the refrigerator. Have fun in NYC and come visit again soon!
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