Sneaking in some DC sights

We managed to see some things in DC when we weren't out with the realtors. Our hotel was in Georgetown, so we walked to the Mall and took in a couple museums. I am looking forward to exploring even more once we move. We also went to Roanoke for a couple days at the end of our trip to see Ethan's parents and brother. It will be nice to live closer to family again.

DC/VA

The Townhouse

We hit the ground running during our househunting trip last week. We arrived in DC on Saturday and looked at houses that afternoon. It took three days of looking, in many different Northern Virginia (NOVA) neighborhoods and at 20+ houses, but we found "The One" on the third day. It's a townhouse in Ashburn, VA - about 30 miles from DC and 20 miles from Tyson's Corner (where Ethan will be working). The house is in a subdivision that includes a pool, biking/walking trails, basketball/tennis courts and is very green and full of trees. It's a big change from our little Brooklyn brownstone but a change we are very excited about. More space! Closets! A yard! A deck! Yay!

Closing isn't until Aug 26 and the movers come tomorrow to pack up our stuff and take it to storage. Ethan, Luna and I will be living in an extended stay hotel in Tyson's for 26 days starting Saturday. While Ethan is at work, I will be job searching and looking for things to do in Tyson's. Fun times.

Oh, and we also bought two Honda's in Roanoke during our Virginia visit. We are doing our share to help the housing and auto industries.

Click below for the townhouse photos:

Ashburn Townhouse

A Wedding in Motown

I'm catching up on our blog entries before we move this weekend. A few weeks ago we were in Detroit for Sarah and Chad's wedding. You hear so many things in the news about Detroit - most of them bad - so it was nice for us to see that there are many good things about the city. The D gets a bad rap - it's a city who has lost it's industry and is in need of some help. The buildings are old and have lots of character and it's unfortunate that many of them sit empty and boarded up. We stayed in a hotel downtown and got a chance to walk around, ride the People Mover and explore. The wedding was so much fun - the Masonic Temple was a perfect setting for the vows and celebration afterwards. Here is the link to our Detroit photo album:

Detroit

Let the House Hunting Begin!

The past few weeks have been jam-packed with fun times and unfortunately, I have not had time to post anything on the blog. Today was my last day of work and tomorrow we go to DC/NOVA to look for a place to live. We'll be back in NYC for the last week of July and I promise to post an update here. Hope you all have a great weekend and check back in about a week. :)

A Patriotic Weekend in Boston

This was one of our favorite Fourth of July weekend's ever. How appropriate we were celebrating our nation's birthday in the wonderful city of Boston. It was an all-American weekend full of baseball at Fenway (the M's won!), good food, friends, and the Freedom Trail. We had a great time walking around the city and enjoying the nice weather. We lucked out and experienced the first sunshine the NE had seen in over a week. I'm sorry I don't have more time to write about our adventure but I took tons of photos and posted the link to the web album below. Our move to DC is coming up in 3 short weeks and blogging has taken a backseat to other important items, such as looking for a place to live, job hunting and tying up loose ends in NYC. I had forgotten how stressful moving is...

Boston

Now on to the next city - Detroit! We head to Motown this weekend for Chad and Sarah's wedding.

Brooklyn Cyclones and Staten Island Yankees

It's been a week of minor league baseball in the city. The New York - Penn League - Class A Short Season - has two NYC teams - the Cyclones and the Yankees. On Tuesday, we went to Coney Island for the Cyclones game. For one night only, they were the "Barack-lyn" Cyclones, wearing special patriotic jerseys and the first 2,500 fans got an Obama bobblehead. (Chad and Sarah were the lucky ones - we got there too late). It was an Obama themed night and the Cyclones won 7-3. (Note: The Cyclones are in first place, undefeated at home as of today.)

Keyspan Park - the dark clouds luckily passed right next to us and we stayed dry.

Sarah and Chad keeping score.

On Sunday, we all took the ferry over to Staten Island for the S.I. Yankees game. Their stadium is awesome - it's right on the water and the seats look out to a view of Manhattan. And only in the minors can you pay $14 for a seat behind home plate! The Yankees were playing the Aberdeen Ironbirds, who is the team located closest to our new city. I was rooting for them because I don't think it's possible for me to root for any Yankee team. This was a wild and crazy game - lots of HR's, big comeback by the Yankees, 3 hours long.

View from the ferry

View from our seats (pretend the big barge and dredger are not there and you can see downtown Manhattan)

Vinny Pastore from the Sopranos threw out the first pitch.

It was a warm day but luckily for our fair, lily white skin, our seats were in the shade.

It's official - we have now been to all five boroughs of NYC, just in the nick of time!

Have a happy 4th everyone!