New York City - Day 5

OK, Im on Day 5 now. What a great day. We started off with a little stroll down to the Parker Meridien Hotel where we met Auntie Rachel for Brunch. While the food was really great, really the highlight was seeing Rachel and hearing about everything thats going on with her. We also had a celebrity sighting. We sat next to Arliss from the show that used to be on HBO. I wonder if he was power lunching.

Afterwards we strolled down to Bergdorf for some early afternoon shopping.While Mom and Dad came home empty handed, they hope to come home with some goodies tomorrow. Later in the afternoon, we took some time to recover at the hotel and watch the Cal game. It was a bit of a sloppy game by the Bears, but Keenan Allen won the game in overtime with his TD. Phew. It was a hard earned road win. Cal didnt have may of those last year. During half time, Mom brought home some Shake Shack for dinner. Yum.

When the game finally ended, we decided to walk uptown. As we left the Times Square, we found a familiar face. Elmo was standing on the corner getting ready to gobble down a hot dog. I had to have a pic.

Afterwards we got a chance to visit Mom and Dad's old apartment building on 56th street and headed to Lincoln Center  to see if there were any Fashion Week festivities going on. There was a free concert to celebrate the 10th anniversary of 9/11. It was really something.

150 West 56th Street. Thanks for the memories.

Dad getting ready to buy a new T Shirt. Go Isles.

Mister Softee!! Who's that guy eyeing my ice cream.

I thought we were going to jump on the subway so I pulled out my MetroCard.

At Argo Tea in Columbus Circle. Where is my tea Sangria!

Mom said that she and Dad saw them filming the Smurf movie here in
Columbus Circle a year ago, so I wanted to see if I could find one.
Here we are looking for one.

I didn't find any Smurfs, but we did find the friendship bear and the 9/11 exhibit at the Time Warner Center.

Listening to the concert outside of Lincoln Center

Where are all the beautiful ladies at? Its Fashion Week!

On the way home, we stopped off at Epicerie Boulud. for a quick Pate Sandwich and a Chocolate Eclair. Yum.
After a long day of walking, I passed out on the way home.

Dynamic Duo and New Pork Chop

Dynamic Duo and New Pork Chop. By the way....I found a new feature in
Picassa today.....Black and Whites!

Ive been looking forward to meeting the Dynamic Duo since ....well, forever. I finally got the opportunity to this evening at old reliable Basso 56. Yum. It was so fantastic to meet them, even though I had a few earmuff moments. Im not really sure what that means, but Dad said it a few times :) Seriously, it was great to meet two such fabulous ladies. I cant wait for them to visit me in California one day. Mom seemed to like calling me New Pork Chop afterwards too...whatever that means....

3 Loveys and a New Pork Chop?

I wasnt allowed to eat the Papardelle, so I had 5 toes instead.

Can I just say Moosetracks is the best flavor of ice cream ever. Why dont they sell this flavor in SF? I have to travel 3k miles just for Moosetracks????

GS

Day 4 in NY: Dad's been trying to work and watch me during the day in the hotel room while Mom is working with her Goldman co-workers at her conference. Mom sounds busy and is super tired at night. I'm sure I'm not helping cause I'm still stuck on California time. I've been going to bed around midnight in New York. Mommy's paying the price the following day. Even Dad doesn't get his first cup of coffee until about 3 in the afternoon every day. We are all still managing to enjoy ourselves in New York. While I love all the lights and sounds of the big city, what I love most is being able to meet all of Mom and Dad's friends in New York city. During the conference I got to meet some of Mommy's co-workers and they showered me with hugs and kisses. Last night, we had a little family get together at Auntie Jana's. Auntie Connie was there with Ryan, Alex and Uncle Jerry. Auntie Jana hosted along with Uncle Ricky and Chayse.

What a beautiful apartment. My favorite was the play room though. Dad took me to the big Toys R Us in Times Square yesterday, but that was not as much fun as this play room! Mom , Dad....take note.
I loved being able to roam around the apartment and I loved playing with all the other kids. Its been the highlight of my trip so far.

Mom, hurry up and buy a new place. I need a pad like this!

Tons of room for lots of kids to play in here. Here's Alex and Chayse watching a video.

Auntie Connie with Ryan. I cant wait until Im that big!

Me hanging out with Chayse. She leaned in for the photo opp :)

First Flight To The Big Apple

The plane ride over from New York was awesome. We had some nice big seats that I could lay down on. The seat was so big that even though I occupied the top half of the seat, Mommy had enough space to sit on the bottom half of the seat. It was quite comfortable for us all. In fact, I slept almost 4 hours on the flight. I was barely up at all. I love flying :)

Getting stuck in traffic on the other hand was not much fun. NY traffic is brutal during rush hour. Two hours later we finally made it to the hotel. While Mom and Dad wanted to go out to eat on our first night in NYC, we decided to eat in instead because of the rain.

The following day, Dad did get us some great eats though. We walked through Times Square on our way to the Time Warner Center. Love the lights! The highlight was the lunch specials at Yakitori Totto. Mom and Dad's favorite restaurant in NYC. Mom was super jealous that we went without her. Later that night, I got to meet Dad's college friend Uncle Dave. Ive heard many stories about him so it was great to finally meet him in person at Bar Americain. I was just glad that we caught him before he left for his vacation in the Caribbean with Auntie Julie :).  I loved the bread at the resteraunt. Ive been eating it for two days now. Chef Bobby Flay was on hand to make sure the bread was up to snuff for me :)

He Came, He Stood, He Fell

The Suite Life

We headed to AT&T park with some of grandpa Kimotsuki's close friends and family to celebrate his 70th birthday. We were hoping for the Giants to crawl within 5 games of Arizona, but instead they ended up 7 games out. Ugh. However, our luxury suite lived up to the billing. We loved watching the game in the suite and our outdoor seats too. It was great to celebrate with so many people. Here are some pics from today's outing. We'll be back later this year to watch Cal take on USC. Go Bears!

Just two guys enjoying a baseball game

Mom in the suite before the game

Mom caught me with my hand in the cookie jar

Surprise! I think Grandpa was surprised to see all these people!

Family pictures during the game

Standing room only during the game. Just kidding.

Scoreboard!

Birthday cake at the ball park

Everyone sing happy birthday!

Outside of the suite

One more outside shot

Inside facing outdoors

The panda strikes

Hey we look like twins!

Family shot

I love baseball

Post game family shot

Me and Grandpa at home on the couch after a long day at the ball park

Here I Come

Im making progress towards walking. Here I am putting one foot after another I strut my way over to Mommy.