Hershey, Pittsburgh, and Morgantown

With Diaz starting school this week, we wanted to squeeze in one last round of family visits and vacationing before we are all locked into our routine. This was a great one, which included block parties, firetrucks, lots of food, art museums, galleries, football, whipped cream, sewing machines, tearing apart computers, beer, tearing apart DVD players, sidewalk chalk, swimming pools, cooking, lawn care, princesses, calculators, butterfly nets, and tennis balls. Among other things. A loosely coupled set is here.

Summer travels at light speed

As the few friends and family members who follow this blog know (and have commented to me), I've been rather slack about posting updates. We've been back in NYC for about a year now and it seems like every minute has been spoken for (in a good, fun, social way) and writing often gets pushed aside. As summer ends, my goal is to stay more current on these pages-- I enjoy doing it and I enjoy that you read them.

But enough about blog technicalities, let's talk about summer awesomeness. Our season has been filled with street fairs and Coney Island visits. Diaz took particular interest in games like balloon darts where you can win awful, made-in-China stuffed animals. Although we ended up bringing home a few of these cheap prizes against our better judgment, the games provided some cool ideas to Diaz, and she decided to set up her own (pretend) balloon dart booth at home.







Unfortunately for Kelly and I, we've also discovered that Diaz's favorite amusement park rides are the ones that leave you the dizziest. But that's OK, it's fun to be a kid with her.







This week, we're on the Pennsylvania / West Virgina circuit squeezing in a last round of family visits before school starts for Diaz next week. More about our fun soon!