It's been all over the news here - Tim Horton's opened up 12 stores in NYC today. Having not been to a Tim Horton's in months, we went for a visit. They had all the typical food of a Tim Horton's, plus the big TV screen menus, but they had New York prices. I remember the prices I use to pay in Waterloo, and here everything was higher and in US ( Read more... )

While we've been here we've taken advantage of the half-price tickets booth for Broadway shows. We've seen some great shows and some disasters. We found it difficult to find out what shows we would actually like. In searching through many sites for Broadway ratings we discovered an unfilled need. In an attempt to fill that gap, we created a new ( Read more... )

This past week we went to a taping of the Daily Show. I reserved the tickets back in Nov or Dec of last year, and this was the only date left with 2 seats available. After waiting in a long line for 2 hours while everyone went through security, we got two seats in the very back of the audience. They began the show with a pre-show where a comedian ( Read more... )

I don't usually like to forward emails that were forwarded to me. So instead, here is a really clever video, and you can either watch it or disregard this post without having email clutter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA

Our Halloween festivities began last weekend. There was a pumpkin festival in Central park which included a pumpkin carving day and a pumpkin sail. We walked through the park on the pumpkin carving day, and even though it was raining, there were lots of people and lots of pumpkins! People had carved out jack-o-lanterns and then placed them along ( Read more... )

I meant to mention this in the last post - earlier this week I tried making these double chocolate chip cookies. They were really good! I highly recommend trying them yourself. They are just so good when you eat them warm and they melt in your mouth with chocolatey goodness.

Wow, it has been incredibly busy for the past several weeks. It was um.. 4 weeks ago that Lisa visited. We had a fun weekend with l3tang , which you can read all about on her journal. You can also read about all the places we ate on www.myworldreviews.com.  We've now passed 100 reviews in NYC. It's pretty cool to look at our map with all the dots in NYC ( Read more... )

This weekend was fun, but there wasn't much interesting to write about. The only exception is that we went to the San Genaro festival in Little Italy and tried deep fried Oreo cookies. They were really good! The Oreo cookie is deep fried in doughnut batter, so it's like a Timbit with an Oreo cookie in the middle. Delicious ( Read more... )

It's been a while again, yet it was another very busy two weeks. Two weekends ago Chris' parents came for a visit. We wanted them to see everything so we had a very busy weekend. On Saturday Chris' mom and I went to a spa for a pedicure. That was really fun. My feet were all nice and soft after. We finally went to Lombardi's! They were the first ( Read more... )

The last two weeks have been really fun. Last weekend we had friends visiting from Canada. Together, we went to see Wicked which was really good! The story was great. It filled in a lot of the history behind the Wizard of Oz and gave you a completely different perspective on the story. The music, costumes, set, and acting was all great too. There ( Read more... )