Usually when I sit down to write my blogs, I have a hard time coming up with material. You see, I would consider my existence in New York a rather tame one. I work everyday of the week and when things get interesting, these occurrences are usually few and far between. But since it is the Holiday season and because I haven't logged in for a while, my advice to you the reader is to get comfortable. November around these parts was pretty quiet. It started off on a spectacular note with Halloween and the Yankees winning their 27th World Series [View Full Entry]

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It's been a few years, but the travel bug has bitten me once again. And, since my travel blog is still here, I'm promising myself and you that I will try to keep it updated over the next few months. As for posting frequency, I expect that I will probably post updates more frequently in January/February while I'm on the road, since I'll be seeing and doing a greater variety of things. Once I land in Israel, I will probably update the blog roughly every ten days to two weeks, and then whenever I get a chance to take a side [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday we felt as if we had another history lesson! It was a fairly short drive from our hotel here in Atlantic City to Philadelphia, about 1 1/4 hours, although we paid a total of $7.75 in tolls. Tom was so excited that he got off one exit early, and as we circling in order to get back on the highway, he spied a sign that indicated a house as the birthplace of Edgar Allan Poe. Of course he had to get a picture, so he parked the car and hopped out. As he approached the sign, a police car [View Full Entry]

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Today, I decided to rent a car, for a couple of days, and just do a little bit of driving about. I decided to ultimately head for Philadelphia. Due to being drained by the flu, I didn't really feel in the mood for the taking of any photographs. However, it was a nice drive about! [View Full Entry]

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Aug 21, 2009 City official name :Trenton Founded date : Location :New Jersey State Elavation :? ft (? m) Area :Approximately ? square miles (? km²). Facts :Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and the sixth-most-populous city in the United States. In 2008, the population of the city proper was estimated to be over 1.4 million, while the Greater Philadelphia metropolitan area's population of 5.8 million made it [View Full Entry]

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Bare with me on my first ever blog post! I am hoping to create a sort of a journal for myself and also list our experiences in the chance of helping others plan their vacations! So here we go.... Our first trip since our son was born, and thus our family complete, is to Philadelphia and the surrounding area. We have 4 yr old and 2 year old daughters and a 1 yr old son. We dont have a whole lot of money so we have to do things as cheaply as we can, and with a family of 5 that [View Full Entry]

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We are at the end of day 5 and we finally got home before 9:00! It has been a great day but we are all excited about having a little bit of down time. We started the day with a quick breakfast and then we were off to Ellis Island. We took a ferry from NJ to Ellis Island. From there we had the options to watch a short play, take a free guided tour, watch a short video, or explore on our own. It was a humbling experience to think about the millions of immigrants who went through those halls. [View Full Entry]

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I am currently sitting in the Philadelphia International Airport people watching and trying not to worry about whether I'll be able to get on the flight to Dublin at 845 tonight. After the taking the red-eye flight from Seattle with two screaming and kicking five year old boys behind me, I'm a wee bit tired. When we arrived at 630 this morning, I ended up finding a quiet corner with one of PHL's white rocking chairs and slept for a surprisingly solid 3 hours! At this point, I'm getting really excited for flying into Dublin, and the subsequent arrival at [View Full Entry]

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In These Shoes? I Don't Think So... I'd been crafting and planning for months to get together with my sisters, two women who are as different from me as they are from each other. We form a triangle of genetic dissimilarity. To further illustrate this point, we're spread out across the country and it took weeks of planning to get us together in an exotic location where all of us would be far from our regular routines. Lydia refuses to get into an airplane (there aren't enough Bloody Marys in the world) and we only have a few days each [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone and welcome to my blog! I am currently in preparation for my fundraiser, which I am hosting this Sunday, and am very excited (and nervous) about it. I just picked up some beautiful pieces of art from Betsy Teutsch and Mordechai Rosenstein, and have gorgeous cards by Roz Epstein. I still need to go pick up pieces by Devorah Greenberg, Barbara Smolen, and my art school friends. I am so grateful for their generous donations, and the monetary donations of my dear friends and family thus far. My plane leaves Philadelphia on June 29th, and I land in Tanzania [View Full Entry]

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