We
refer to this one as "our official picture." There we are at the
religious shrine, in our finery. The picture was shot by a nearby
Japanese baseball fan, visiting Yankee Stadium and taking a zillion
pictures, So we asked for a shot of us with our camera, and this
is the result. This picture is from either 1996 or 1997 .
Susan's
birthday: September 1, 2002. Just after our vacation in
California, there we are wearing our matching Monterey Aquarium
t-shirts. Our
friends Frank & Regine from Germany were in town with a group of
their friends. In honor of Frank being in New York, we all went
to a restaurant named after him. A little Italian Steakhouse. The dots on Susan's shirt are raindrops, as she had just run
out from Frank's (a great little restaurant on Second Avenue at 3rd or
4th Street on the Lower East Side) to feed the parking meter.
How
she got this cap is a state secret. Ask her nicely and maybe
she'll tell you. Of course, she might just have to kill you
immediately afterwards. This is from around 1999 or 2000.
Doesn't Susan look proud of the 2003 Thanksgiving turkey? As
is the case almost every year, we cook our Thanksgiving Dinner over at
our friend Bob's place. That's Bob, in the background. Susan is the sous-chef, I am the
chef. Bob is the happy diner. Well, we all are, come to
think of it. Out goal each year is to spend less time cooking, and
to get more of the prep work done in advance than the year
before. Sometimes that is the case, but most years we still end up
eating way past our target sit-down time. All that
notwithstanding, the meal holds up, year after year. After all,
Bob keeps inviting us back!
Hunan Balcony,
74th and 2nd Avenue. There's something about being at this
restaurant in August that is very appealing. There we were on
August 13, 2003.
In December of 2003 we
visited our friends in The Black Country of England, a town
called Walsall. While there we spent time in Wales, a moment or
two in London and Oxford, and mostly enjoyed the company of our friends
from the Black Country. Here we are modeling hats, from the
collection of Sue From Darlaston (that is how we know her, no idea what
her surname might be)
Ah, Katz's. my
favorite of all NY delis. Not a bodega or a luncheonette, Katz's
is a regular media and food experience. This is Willy Wonkowitz and
the Pastrami/Salami Factory. Yummy. Take a look below, and
cast your eyes on a Pastrami sandwich. Mmmm, finger-lickin' good. January 22, 2004.
Better Pastrami than at Katz's? Not likely to be found!
In February, 2005 we went
to visit our Friend Larry in Vegas. He was dying and it was
important that we see him one last time. This picture was shot at
one of the scenic parking lot photo opportunity sites by Hoover
Dam. Larry had a lot to do with Susan and me getting together in
the first place. We both miss Larry, who died ten days after our
visit. There's a huge hole in both our hearts. Friends like
Larry are few and far between.