Happy Birthday to My Blog

My blog turns a year old today! For my blog's birthday I decided to fix the spelling error in the title that I didn't realize was an error until a few days ago :)

Apparently I've always had it backwards and "its" is the possessive form and "it's" is the combination of it and is. Lesson learned!

Happy Birthday!

Aspen

John and I went to Aspen with his family for their spring break last week. Neither of us had been to Aspen before and it was beautiful! It was a lot smaller than I had imagined, but it was this quaint little city surrounded by mountains all around. John and I decided it was a little like a neighborhood in Manhattan because everyone was walking everywhere, with their dogs; parking was scarce and there were high end shops and restaurants everywhere! :)

I've never been skiing this late in the season and apparently it's a little chancy what the conditions will be like, but we lucked out and it was perfect! We had fresh powder the whole time we were there. And oh the powder, I had forgotten what it was like to have so much of it!I took another snowboarding lesson since I'm still learning. I signed up for a group lesson but because it was so late in the season the resort was pretty empty and I got a private lesson all day. It was fantastic!!! My snowboard instructor basically held my hand the whole way down the mountain and then once I got comfortable he took my camera and took videos of me snowboarding (I'm super excited because I'm always the one taking pictures and so I'm never in them). Disregard the snow all over my rear end and me falling at the end of the video, I totally didn't do that the whole time ;)

The down side to all of this snowboarding is how incredibly sore it makes me. After two full days of snowboarding I was so sore it hurt to do ANYTHING! It even hurt to lift my drink to my mouth my arms we so sore! We definitely had to take it easy a couple of days and just enjoy the food and sites Aspen had to offer. It was a great trip and really nice to get out of the city for a little while. The super crazy part is that the night before we left Aspen it was like a blizzard and when we flew into NYC the next day it was 90 degrees!

Rosie's New Friend

A couple of weekends ago we kept our friends Susy and Ryan's dog Darby. Darby is a beagle too but she and Rosie had never met before that weekend. I was a little concerned because sometimes it takes Rosie a little while to warm up to other dogs but she and Darby hit it off immediately.

Here's a video of the two of them playing together. What cracks me up is that there is absolutely no noise except for their nails clicking on the floor!

They would play like this for 20 minutes or so and then crash and nap for a while. Here's Darby taking her nap on one side of the couch, Rosie was on the other end and I was in the middle of two tired puppies :)

They repeated the cycle the entire weekend, it was pretty hilarious. Rosie definitely has a new friend!

The Movies

John and I went to see How to Train Your Dragon this afternoon. It was really cute, the price of a 3D movie however is not.

Its one thing to pay $12.50 for a movie in NY but now all these new 3D movies are $17.50! That's getting WAY too close to 20 bucks. If we wanted to see it in Imax it really is $20! I don't know if I'm really sold on all this 3D and Imax stuff, especially since it makes movie outings more expensive :(

I just needed to vent, it really was a cute movie and John and I both enjoyed it. It just makes me a little sad spending that much on what used to cost half as much in Arkansas (in reality that's alot of things, this one just really hit me in the face today).

Yay Spring!

Ok, its not technically Spring but the weather has been really nice the past couple of days. There aren't really any flowers blooming or anything but its certainly warm enough to hang out outside without a giant coat.

Rosie and I have been taking advantage of this nice weather and the extra evening daylight by going to hang out at Madison Square Park after work. She's super excited because the squirrels are still out since its still light. Today we sat on the park bench and she searched the lawn desperately for squirrels. She eventually saw one and lunged onto the sidewalk. Unfortunately there happened to be a woman walking by at the same time and the lady freaked out a little since it appeared that my sweet little dog was ferociously lunging at her :)

On to things besides squirrels that we happened upon in the park....I don't know what these people were doing but it certainly looked hilarious. They were all blindfolded and holding on to the person in front of them. I guess walking around NY blindfolded is good for your karate (or taekwondo or whatever) skills :)

Cheese Dip!

I just wanted to share the lengths I am willing to go for cheese dip...
John and I went to Penn Station to get dinner at Moe's. To put that in non-NYC terms, it would be like purposefully going to eat dinner at the airport!

That's what its come down to since absolutely no one in the city has cheese dip except Moe's. You can't even say cheese dip, you have to say queso or they have no idea what you're even talking about.

Anyway, we got a giant bowl of cheese dip to take home and we will be enjoying it all week long :)

This So Counts as Nature

I read an article recently where they had a list of ten ways to tell if you are a New Yorker. One of the things was that you think Central Park counts as "nature."

I'm not trying to say that I'm a New Yorker, I clearly come from a much more woodsy area, but this SO counts as nature :) I seem to stumble upon a new undiscovered place (to me at least) each time I visit Central Park. This is the ramble, I was there awhile ago and I definitely felt like I was not in the middle of NYC. You couldn't hear the noise from the street anymore and you could barely see the buildings. It was so peaceful and since it was a really cold day there was no one else in sight. It was kind of an odd feeling to be in the middle of the city in the woods with no noise and no other people. I'm sure its even more isolated from the city when the trees have all of their leaves, I'll have to check it out again in a couple of months.