May Day antics

Apologies for the lack of blogging action over the past week! We have had a busy time. On Saturday I got to take the morning off and go shopping and get my hair cut. The shopping eventually resulted in a pair of jeans. It was a long drawn out process as I was rather overwhelmed by the choice of cut and the strange american sizing. In the end I bought the only pair i tried on which had waist and leg sizes in inches and fitted me. Let's just say even the sales assistant commented that it was expensive for jeans! I comforted myself by doing the conversion to sterling. Very reasonable really! My haircut wasn't a disaster but is none too flash either. In a salon of about 20 hairdressers I had an elderly lady who spoke Spanish but not much English.

On Sunday we headed off to North Brooklyn Vineyard. It was a fairly straight forward 45 minute drive there. I took the wheel this time as Ian was exhausted. I only drove on the left side of the road once, just after coming off the freeway, but i didn't hit anyone and quickly corrected my error by driving the wrong way into a one way street. Church was great. Wonderful to see Mike and Char Turrigiano again. We had lunch with Char back at her house. Ian fell asleep on the sofa and I watched the Yankees lose to Boston Red Sox. The journey home took over an hour but did include a little detour along the waterfront in south Brooklyn, very pretty.

The last couple of days Ian has been working hard so ethan and I have been amusing ourselves locally. We had a day trip yesterday to explore a few towns nearby. We went back to Tarrytown then drove down through Dobbs Ferry, Irvington and Hastings-on-Hudson. Found a great playground at the last stop.


We have finally found some decent playgrounds within walking distance of the apartment as well. The first two photos were taken not long after Ethan rushed headlong down a slope only to fall off a small cliff of rocks and soil that was the same height as him. He landed on his shoulder, head and face.

He soon got back into it but he still has nasty cuts on his face.

The last photo was taken today at another park which is about 20 minutes walk away. I got chatting to one of the nannies there (there are lots of nannies at these parks - recognisable by the fact that it is mostly African American ladies with very white children). She was able to give me a few pointers for playgroups - or free playtime for pre-schoolers - and other ways of entertaining one year olds.

Tomorrow we go to a moms and tots morning at the library. I'm hoping to meet some local mums as we could do with a bit of company during the day. I think next week i will advertise a Korman Communities Coffee and Play morning.

This evening Ian and I managed to keep the TV turned off and have a "House Group" (prayer and worship) consisting of just the two of us. Hoping to make that a habit and perhaps expand it to include our neighbours.