Great trip to Paris from March 5-10


Saturday
- Palais Garnier
- L'arch de triumph followed by dinner at L'Etoile 1903 restaurante
Sunday
Free Sunday of the month.  No lines!!!
- D'Orsay - Cool old train station
- Rodin - Gates of Hell
- Miyuma Umi Sushi near the hotel.  Very good
Monday
- Tuileries Garden
- Louvre - Rubin 24 Panels
- Hôtel et Restaurant Mollard
Tuesday
- Saint Chapelle
- Notre Dame
- Pantheon - Cool Crypts of Voltaire, Rousseau, Curies, etc.
- Luxembourg Gardens
- Wine and Planet Sushi
- Diana Damrau at Palais Garnier
Wednesday
- Musee Marmottan - Basement full of Monet
- Crepe restaurant - La Cidrerie du Marais
- Shoah Museum - Vichy France
- Galleries Lafayette  roof and shopping
- La Boutique des Vin - Great Meal with wine
Thursday
- Musee De l'Oragngerie - Monet Water Lillies
- Relais de l'Entrecôte Saint-Germain for lunch 
- Cluny Museum - National Museum of Medieval Art - Unicorn Tapestries

December NYC trip

Lisa and I had 4 days in NYC.

• Fun Home
• King Charles III
• Julliard Symphony at Lincoln Center
• Rossini opera at the Met
• Jewish Museum where I learned about Stieglitz photograph ‘Steerage’. http://thejewishmuseum.org/press/press-release/mc-stieglitz-release
• Cool artist I had never heard about Torres-Garcia https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1506?locale=en
• Lamb over rice (http://thehalalguys.com/ )  Do you want to start a franchise with me?
• Plus a Hanukah dinner with Hannah and Howard at Hannah’s apartment

Jan and Feb

No snow this year.  Took skis up to Warren and Jim and I skiied at Audubon.  I also skiied on Sunday in Feb when it snowed 6 inches in Pittsburgh.  Rode my bike everyday to work when I was in town.  Some other things I can remember...

• Jeremy's Bar Mitzvah
  a trip to NYC to see other desert cities
  a couple of trips to Baltimore to visit mom
  Jeremy 'Linsanity'
  family night at Madmex
  Ari broke his knee
  Nathaniel started refereeing
  

End of 2011

Yeah, I haven't posted much.  Busy this fall with work and keeping track of everyone else in my family.  I get a little bike riding by myself but hope to go on longer trips with friends and hiking with cousins in 2012.  Don't worry though, even though the Pirates are asking for more money for season tickets in 2012, I still purchased a pair of the cheap seats!!!

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September Pirate Games

Sep 1:  I went by myself to the make up game with the Dodgers.  Gave up too many runs.  Started to come back in the 9th but not enough.  I was in the outfield when Priestly hit his 2nd HR of the year with one on.

Sep 6: plan to go to the Labor Day game

August Pirates Games

End of August and I haven't blogged at all.

Lets see if I can remember the games:

Mon, 8/1	Cubs	L 3-5	54-53	Zambrano (8-6)	Maholm (6-11)
Tue, 8/2	Cubs	L 6-11	54-54	Wells (3-4)	Correia (12-9)
Wed, 8/3	Cubs	L 0-1	54-55	Garza (5-8)	Resop (3-3)
Thu, 8/4	Cubs	L 6-7	54-56	Samardzija (6-4)	McCutchen (3-3)
Fri, 8/5	Padres	L 5-15	54-57	Harang (10-3)	Karstens (8-6)
Sat, 8/6	Padres	L 2-13	54-58	Luebke (4-6)	Maholm (6-12)
Sun, 8/7	Padres	L 3-7	54-59	Latos (6-11)	Correia (12-10)
Mon, 8/15	Cardinals	W 6-2	57-63	McDonald (8-6)	Westbrook (9-7)
Tue, 8/16	Cardinals	W 5-4	58-63	Resop (4-4)	Rhodes (3-4)
Wed, 8/17	Cardinals	L 2-7	58-64	Lohse (11-7)	Maholm (6-14)
Fri, 8/19	Reds	L 8-11	58-65	Wood (6-5)	Hanrahan (0-2)
Sat, 8/20	Reds	W 5-3	59-65	Watson (1-2)	Chapman (2-1)
Sun, 8/21	Reds	L 4-5	59-66	Arredondo (3-3)	Hanrahan (0-3)
Mon, 8/22	Brewers	L 1-8	59-67	Narveson (9-6)	Karstens (9-7)
Mon, 8/22	Brewers	W 9-2	60-67	McCutchen (4-3)	Greinke (12-5)
Tue, 8/23	Brewers	L 4-11	60-68	Estrada (4-8)	Ohlendorf (0-1)
Wed, 8/24	Brewers	W 2-0	61-68	Grilli (1-0)	Marcum (11-4)

8/1 Howie and Calvin

8/2 Harry and Tom

8/3 Harry and Sam

8/4 ??

8/5 Howie and Dad - yes it is painful

8/6 Sold on Stubhub

8/7 Howie and Dad

8/15 ??

8/16 ??

8/17 Howie and ?

8/19 Howie and Ben Freid.   Sam and a friend used my free Blood tickets.

8/20 - Turned back

8/21 - Ed and I road our bikes down and then up across the 31st Street Bridge.  Thought we were doing OK until late in the game.

8/22 - Howard, Sam, and I went to the double header.  Yes the second game was much more fun that the first.

8/23 - Mike took the whole family and then got to play catch on the field

8/24 - Turned them back

New York City Weekend of July 29-31

Headed to NYC Friday morning.  Unfortunately an accident dealing with an oil spill on I-78 at Trexlertown backed up traffic for miles. I decided to hit the back roads.  Went through Topton, Mertztown, Longswamp, Seisholtzville, Shimerville, Emmaus before getting back to I-78.  Still took us a couple of extra hours.

Hannah wanted to see El Bulli, so we went to the Film Forum.  Pretty interesting film but definitely along the lines of the food porn theme.  We walked up 7th and stopped at an Italian Restaurant whose owner was chatting up people on the street to get business at Zucca.  He did a pretty good job and we had the stuffed artichoke, beet salad, risotto, and ravioli.  Pretty good actually.

Saturday we met Hannah at the Whitney.  Spent a couple of hours there.  Coolest was Cory Arcangel.  I really liked his version of Paganini #5.  Check out cats playing Schoenberg!!!

Then we hopped on the subway and went to the Eataly right across the street from Madison Square Park.  It was still busy so we bought a goat cheese and pear sandwich, brocolli rabi pizza and ate it in the park with everyone else sunbathing around us.  Cool sculpture also...

Then we went back to TKTS and bought tickets for Circque du Soleil Zarkana in Radio City Music Hall.  Actually it was very good.  The set was definitely the third ring with cool snakes, cool images, and too much stuff to watch while the performers were doing their thing.

Had a nice hike with a stop a cousin Stan's.   Things I saw in between:
- The Museum of biblical Art.  Free on Sunday's but I was there before it opened.
- Lincoln Center Atrium was open with 4 older ladies playing hearts/bridge and a few people using their PCs.  Ticket office was closed so I couldn't get tickets.
- Riverside Park was fairly quiet with lots of dog walkers
- The Manhattan Waterfront Greenway from 72nd to 103rd was busy with joggers and bikers.  I spent 45 minutes reading the NYTimes Sports and Auto sections.
- Lunch at Stan's and then across Central Park's north fields and then around the reservoir, then past the Met on 5th and then past the zoo.
- Back to the hotel via Dave Letterman's theater where they were giving out tickets for Monday's show.  Too bad we are leaving.

Pretty good dinner at Havana Central complete with Mojito's and music