Thanksgiving

We spent the Thanksgiving holidays in Nashville with my sister’s family (could you tell it was my side of the family?). Here are random shots of the family:

 
Lauren sporting her butterfly hat
 

 
McKenzie and Lauren with matching jammies
 

 
The kids dressed up for the big Auburn vs. Alabama game (Auburn won!)
It’s a funny thing being [...]

Day Four : Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

And on the four day we rested…
I wish.
Instead I was up at 6 am, after maybe 4 hours of sleep because my stomach and head hurt from too much sangria and too much food the night before. I guess this means I’m old.
We only had two things to do today. See some of the parade [...]

Day Three : Tia Pol

After a couple meetings in the city and a lot of working from the hotel room, Kelly and I met my Australian colleague Rachel at the W lounge in Times Square. Afterwards, we headed up to Central Park West (CPW) to see the parade peeps blow up all the balloons for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day [...]

Day Two : Spotted Pig

I ran today for the first time in over a month and it sucked. My heart rate was a good 20 bpm higher than usual for my 10min/mile pace and I just wanted to stop 1/2 way through. But I pushed on and after a super tiny breakfast (1/2 a cliff bar) and a [...]

Day One

When your employer isn’t paying moving expenses and you are as cheap as we are, you skip the moving companies and try to ship all your stuff via air…as your check-in luggage.
Honestly, it wasn’t that much of a pain. On Monday morning we packed our 4-16×18×18 boxes into the town car along with our backpacks [...]

Two Weeks to Day Zero

The two weeks leading up to our flight are a COMPLETE blur. We had to move out of our condo, transfer it to a new tenant, live out of a suitcase, see all of our friends and hit all of our favorite restaurants. We ate and drank so much that I’m pushing maximum density. Dinners [...]

Why Go?

In October, with K’s contract running down at Microsoft and my work in NY and Europe expanding, we decided to try and negotiate an offer with my employer to move to NYC for a year. After a little back and forth both internally and externally, we were able to pull it off. We’re here in [...]