I love this city...We stayed in my brother, Victor's, studio apartment: all of us, including Victoria who is heading back up to college in Massachusetts. There is just so much to see and do, and we tried to do as much as we could despite the freezing temperatures. And I noticed it was 47 degrees in Anchorage this past week!
Happily we got to visit my high school friend, Jeff Rotter, and his wife, Margaret, and son, Felix. We ate dinner in Brooklyn with his parents who were up from S. Carolina. The visit was too short, but fun, and unfortunately I forgot to get a picture of his family. For all you Cardinal Newman alum, Jeff just published his first novel, so be on the look out for it.
Besides the Museum of Natural History, we also saw the provocative "Bodies, the Exhibition." This was an educational, yet creepy show of cadavers, open to the paying public. Cadavers were shown in all types of way: posed with a basketball, cut in different planes, you name it. Real organ systems were shown in their entirety. The procurement of the bodies remains questionable, with a disclaimer before you enter that they could not "independently verify that the human remains you are viewing are not those of persons incarcerated in Chinese prisons." So it was definitely disturbing, but the boys, were honestly just bored after a while, and didn't really get it.
Of course it was great seeing my brother and hanging out in his bachelor pad watching movies (even a 3-D one). And it was great going out to eat (lots of sushi) and fun running around on the subways to get around. In fact, riding on the subways was definitely Tyler and Joe's favorite part of the whole visit.
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