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Another exhausting day but several more things checked off our TODO list. We woke up this morning and had breakfast at a hole-in-the-wall place named Olympic Diner, where we enjoyed a greasy NY chicken panini with some cheese sticks. Not your typical healthy breakfast but hey, we’re on vacation!. After that we toured Central Park, browsed through the Metropolitan Museum of Art, saw Blue Man Group, and then topped it off with a trip to the Empire State Building. Quite a busy day!

Tomorrow we planning to hoof it out to Ellis Island and then try to get in on the taping of the Daily Show. It’s very likely we won’t get into the Daily Show taping, so we’ve got Broadway planned as a backup. (All prayers for us to get into the Daily Show are greatly appreciated).

We took a lot of pictures today and they’re going to take a decent time to upload, so I’ve kicked off the process and will finish adding them to an album in the morning.

UPDATE: Pictures available at: http://chriskarcher.net/photos/thumbnails.php?album=4

Notable Central Park pictures include the fountain from the opening scenes in Friends, Celine Dion’s Loft, and the building that houses Jerry Seinfeld’s Porsche collection of 60 some-odd Porsches.

We’re exhausted, so this will be short and sweet .

We traveled all day, arrived around 4PM, and then hit NY hard. Once we got checked in at our hotel we went exploring and saw all sorts of neat stuff. Just like Las Vegas, New York is as cool as it look on TV. We got pictures of billboards, tall buildings, and even a live newscast. Our first major location stop was Rockefeller Center because it’s only a 5 minute walk from our hotel. The Christmas tree was amazing! We walked around for a bit and then went ice skating after eating some authentic NY pizza. Funny thing, while we were waiting in line to skate we met 6 different people all from Austin. Either it’s a small world, or a lot of Texans want to get somewhere cold for Christmas.

Tomorrow, we’re going to hit up Central Park during the day and Blue Man Group at night. If we have time, we might go check out the Empire State Building as well.

As promised, here are some pictures:
http://www.chriskarcher.net/photos/thumbnails.php?album=3

Tomorrow, Denicia and I are heading to the Big Apple for a week! I’m so stoked. We’re staying at a hotel just a couple blocks from the Rockefeller Center, right in the middle of everything great in NY. We’re going to see Broadway, Central Park, Ellis Island, and all sorts of other neat stuff. And as a Christmas present, Denicia bought us Blue Man Group tickets! I’ve seen them in Chicago before and the show was incredible.

Denicia will have both her camera and her iBook so I might be able to post some pictures while we’re there. Check back!

Another weekend gone and we’re one step closer to moving our stuff upstairs. We spent yesterday and today priming and painting the upstairs. Most of it looks really good. In the process however, we found that we did a crappy job of putting some of the ceiling texture on. It looks like we’re going to have to go back and redo it =/. Aside from that, a lot of progress was made.

If we can get a hold of the materials this week, we’re planning on putting the new flooring in next weekend. Then, we’ll be able to move up there and start sleeping in the bedrooms. Here are some pictures I just took showing some of the work (and some other random pictures). I blame the blurriness of the pictures on the bad lighting

http://chriskarcher.net/photos/thumbnails.php?album=2

Photos from before we moved in and started work:

http://chriskarcher.net/photos/thumbnails.php?album=1