Labor Day Weekend

On Saturday night Christopher and I braved the remains of Hurricane Ernesto and headed into Manhattan to meet my university classmate and her husband for dinner at a nice little Italian restaurant in Greenwich Village called Palma. She was in town presenting her first paper at a conference and it is soon to be published. So cool - congratulations Allie!














It was neat being able to take the train in and be transported from our suburban neighborhood to the buzzing metropolis of New York City. It'll come in handy when the Raptors or the Blue Jays are in town or when we have a craving for "real" Chinese food :)

Here's a quick pic I snapped of Christopher and the Empire State Building right out front of Grand Central Station before we ran inside to catch our train. You can kinda see how rainy it was that night!








On Sunday we had dinner with longtime friends of my family. Their daughter lives about 20 minutes from us and her parents were down visiting for the long weekend. Small world! It was nice to catch up with them. As they were updating me about their family they told us about their one daughter who is closest in age to me, that is now a police officer. And boy does she sound ruthless! Apparently when people plead with her as she's giving them a ticket and ask if they can get off with a warning her response is "Warning, ticket coming!". I could not stop laughing when I heard this, but I can only imagine being on the receiving end of something like that!

On Monday we enjoyed the calm after the storm and headed out for a beautiful round of golf at Blue Fox Run in Avon. It was slow (as can be expected on a holiday Monday) but good times nonetheless. As we crossed over to the back 9 we walked over a bridge crossing the Farmington River and saw some canoeists and kayakers paddling along. I'll have to look into where we can rent these from and plan a nice little day trip for us.