Updates!

Wow, I'm getting a bit behind on these entries. My apologies, but I have good reasons!!!

Friends:
I have finally met some ladies in my building. To make a long story short, I went to a UN party with one of the ladies in my building (not in the actual building but the German House in UN square). A few of other ladies, who are here from Germany, went as well. The next night, we all ate dinner together and we met more ladies; one from Canada, Kentucky, and Scotland. Yesterday, I went with five of the German ladies to Korean Way and we had an authentic Korean dinner. Yum! It was hard for the Germans to understand the Koreans when they spoke English, so I had to translate. It's so nice to finally have people to eat with and talk to during meals.

Work:
The past week I have had to travel 45mins each way to go pick up these letters at a residence off of Park Ave. I had to go three times because the first two times, the papers were not there. The address of the building is 740 E Park Ave. Why am I telling you this? Because this place is so ritzy and lavishing, it had a book written about! I was not aloud to take pictures, but man,you should have seen it. Google it and you will see. Here is a link to a New York Times article about it: ARTICLE
We are preparing for our re-opening in September. The walls are all done and now the templates for the pictures are going on the walls. They put up actual size papers of the pictures with a sticky back on the walls to see how everything will look. And to make adjustments where necessary.

Play:
One of my new favorite things to do in NYC is run in the rain. It's a like a whole new place during the rain. No one is on the streets, the lights all shine even more because they reflect off the water, and the noise drowns out a bit from the sound of rain falling. I ran all the way down to SOHO and Greenwich Village a few days ago. This is where I would live if I could. Such cute homes and brick laid streets. I absolutely love it.
I finally got a chance to hang with my friend Erin (she moved here from AZ just a few weeks before I did). We went and saw The Goonies at Pier 46(same thing I did for Wizard of Oz). Then we walked down to Batty Park. It is so amazing at night with all the tourist gone and the NJ city line in the distance. Then we took the Long Island Ferry across the Hudson. It is free and goes in front of the Statue of Liberty. We spent the night at her place and slept till 11am. It was soooooo nice to finally sleep in and still be able to have breakfast! We made pancakes and coffee. It was a lovely lazy Saturday.