Crazy Bullock Weekend!

**Long Post-Please Be Prepared for lots of info and pictures!


This weekend we had some friends from Asheville come visit. We were able to do so many fun things with them and really did enjoy ourselves. It was a good mixture of going and doing-and sitting and relaxing. Some friends here (the Dubes) were out of town and were kind enough to let CJ and Brad sleep in their place. It was a dreary weekend-but CJ said she already thought of NYC as a character...and that was one of it's characteristics. So we spent lots of the weekend walking around in the rain allowing her husband Brad to stop and eat a slice of pizza at every pizza shop we passed. It was overall a good time-and as usual our little son was a trooper as we dragged him about the city!

We started our time by going to the Met Friday night. We were able to look at the European painting during the time of Rembrandt which were definitely my favorites of the museum so far!


Here we are walking to the museum. We passed another cupcake shop...I'm such a sucker! What is this? I never ate cupcakes before I moved here. This one was opened by the owner of Magnolia but is in midtown. When we passed it I couldn't resist!


This is an interesting piece from the Greek and Roman exhibit.


And here we are in the European art. An El Greco and a pregnant husband (doesn't he look like he has a pregnant belly!)

Saturday-The Village and The Rangers!

So Saturday we set out and walked around Greenwich Village-hitting the NHL store on the way home. Brad is a big hockey fan and we were able to make it not only to the store, but a game in Madison Square Gardens as well! I avoided my typical response to stock up on paraphernalia and just wore my Yankees hat (But we did come home with 3 "GO RANGERS" plastic cups-I suppose that fills my quota).



We had great seats and not only was the view great....we sat right in front of your typical screaming New Yorkers to round out the experience.

It was our first time getting a baby sitter and I managed not to call home (figuring if I did I'd come right back if I heard crying in the background!). Our friend the Ropers took care of Steven and he did beautifully. If we have another child I'm going to have to really adjust because this little guy is amazing!


A Visit To The Empire
Since it rained all Saturday we were unable to do any "typical" NY sightseeing (Statue, Empire, etc.). So when Sunday morning turned out to be an incredible day we decided to skip church and head to the Empire State Building. I was thinking, "Sunday morning...not a holiday weekend...it should be fine." Somehow everyone else who had been cramped inside all weekend thought the same thing and we were faced with an hour wait. It actually went faster than I thought it would. We paid the extra to go to the 102 floor observation deck-so we were at the very tip of that crazy lookin spike! There was a 25 mile visibility.


This is a shot of the North end of the island. The green rectangle is central park! Crazy eh? The park is 2.5 miles long!

The bridge in the distance is the George Washington Bridge which comes in way north of our house! If you know what you're looking for you can see Riverside Church on this picture-which is on the same block as our apartment.


This is a shot of the Chrysler building.

This is looking down on Rockefeller Center. You can see the white of the ice skating rink in the midst of the green.

Above and Below are shots of the south side of the building. You can see the Statue of Liberty if you know where to look!



As you can see-posing for our family Christmas card was a no-go because of the wind, sun, and thousands of other people! Here is about as good as it gets.








And then as we were leaving-we saw some crazy awesome hydrolics! Don't you want this puppy!

....or would you rather have this one? They were a pair.


Steven Edward:
Little Steven is doing really well. He is such a trooper as you can see in one of these pictures as he sleeps on his daddy.


He is starting to crawl-okay....he is inching. He can lift his bottom half and push himself forward a couple inches to get a toy. He doesn't do it every time-but we sure cheer when he does it! He currently has a bump under his front gum where a tooth is trying to come in and so he chews on everything! And he loves to grab, he grabs at any and everything. So needless to say whatever his grabbing obtains goes straight into his mouth. It is a cute, messy, and not so sanitary habit. I suppose that explains his chronic runny nose.


And here in NY it is finally getting cold. This morning I smelled the all too familiar smell of the radiator turning on. Kind of like the burning you smell when you leave a curling iron in too long? Yep-anyone over the age of 50 or who has ever lived on old south campus at UNC knows that smell quite well. So I'm buckling in and preparing to fall in love with our indoor playroom!