No time for a real post, but we went to the Louvre and took some pictures I thought you guys would appreciate: My mom is getting really good at taking my jumping pictures and it definitely takes skill to take the picture when there are TWO jumpers – sometimes, you end up with pictures like [...]
At dinner last night with my family: We arrived yesterday around 2PM, walked around, and had dinner near our hotel. I woke up at 4AM and woke everyone else up, so we’re heading to breakfast and then the Arc de Triomphe and the Louvre! I’m not sure how often I’ll be updating gracenotesnyc.com, but I [...]
This year, we didn’t have turkey in North Carolina (my mom made two chickens instead). We hosted two parties (one that lasted until 5AM!) and had an amazing array of Chinese dishes, including lion’s heads (that’s a literal translation from Chinese to English – they’re Chinese meatballs served with cabbage and noodles), sticky rice, stuffed [...]
After our unsuccessful (but fun) apple picking adventure, we drove to Bellvale Farms to find some pumpkins. The original plan was to find pumpkins at Masker’s as well, but they didn’t have much of a selection so we figured we’d have more luck somewhere else. We drove to Bellvale Farms and didn’t see many pumpkins [...]
On Sunday, I rented a car with my remaining Hertz points and drove upstate to pick pumpkins and apples. We were a little late for apple picking season, but had a lot of fun at the orchard. David and I looked for a good twenty minutes before we found our first apples – there were [...]
