Memorial Day...and Finally a BBQ!

The flags (above) were amongst the dozens of flags flying in Rockefeller Center this last weekend.

James and I at a Yankee game - he finally made it to Yankee Stadium!



Ok, so it's the day after Memorial Day but I am still feeling very patriotic. We just had a wonderful last few days of enjoying some highly "Americana" festivities (and yes, that means we are finally done with our never-ending papers!) We finished our papers last Wednesday, and then Emily and Laura flew in that night and left yesterday afternoon. We had such a wonderful time! I have plenty more pictures and things to say about our trip later, but in brief we went to New York two days, went to the Jersey shore one day, and hung out in Princeton for a day and a half. New York City was great - Laura and Emily had never been there so we got to see all the favorite sights - Staten Island Ferry past Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge, Madison Square Gardens, Grand Central Station (which I hadn't been to before and it was brilliant), Penn Station, Central Park, The MET, Times Square, and Yankee Stadium for a Yankee's Game. (more to come about this trip later)


After we took Emily and Laura back to the airport yesterday I was feeling slightly melancholy, but when we got back to CRDub we were immediately invited to a BBQ down the street. It was such a glorious Memorial Day evening! There were literally a dozen or more BBQ's going on in our neighborhood, with little kids running all over, the sun shining with a slight breeze, plenty of laughter, and the official invitation of summer relaxation. Two of our neighbors, Rachel and Casey, had spent all last week making this game they call "corn holing" (I guess because the little bags you toss are filled with corn?), and it was great fun. We also played several games of Bocci ball, and I have decided that I adore lawn games. We need to invest in some croquet and bocci ball sets. After it was too dark to play anymore, a whole bunch of "husbands" decided that we should all watch the Big Labowski...I hadn't seen the whole thing through before so I was game. And I have to admit that it was pretty funny...but I think much more of a male movie than female.


All that to say, James and I have finally stopped to breath a bit now that school is over and we are very excited for summer time BBQ's and lawn games and fudge-cycles (as we know have in our freezer), and Memorial Day served as the perfect sneak preview for us.