The End Draws Near

Ahoy, maties. There has been much going on here, which has made it hard for us to update our beloved blog. I am here to give the update. Behold: a few weeks ago we went to see the Bodies Exhibit (www.bodiestheexhibition.com) and were completely impressed with the incredible nature of the human body. Dan insisted that I would learn something while we were there, and learn I did: the human eyeball remains the same size from birth until death, which is why babies have that doe-eyed look. It’s very difficult to describe this exhibit, so I recommend visiting the website listed above.

In other news, in his quest to force me to like opera, Dan insisted that I attend an opera with him, Mario and Elly at the Metropolitan Opera. We saw Rigoletto by Verdi. The opera was in Italian complete with subtitles on the seats in front of us, beautifully staged and three hours long. What do I remember the most about the evening, you might ask? David Blaine outside the opera house at Lincoln Center trying to beat the world record for living underwater in a bubble. See picture in our PICTURES section. Long live opera. Haha!

Dan also had a birthday recently, which we celebrated by visiting the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, a bird sanctuary 9,000 acres large. It was a really nice, sunny day and the birds were out en masse. We spotted many ducks, geese, gulls, swans, etc. one of which you can see me viewing (read: chasing) in our pictures. After this adventure we were off to procure Dan’s birthday gift of a baseball mitt and ball. We then had dinner at a really great Chinese seafood place in China Town. Age 28: success!

Speaking of adventures, we finally procured a bike for me, as I will be riding my bike to school for the next two years since it’s so close to our apartment. K-Mart was our destination, which was very fortunate considering the close proximity to our favorite wine store, Astor Wines. We rolled the new bike down to the wine store for a tasting before heading back to Brooklyn. My new bike, Wheeler, sullenly resides in our hallway.

More exciting was our Memorial Day weekend day trip on Sunday out to the North Fork of Long Island with Ben and Jara for even more wine tasting. We took off in the Ben&Jara Mobile at 9:30am and arrived at the first vineyard around 11am. There are many wineries out there, of which we hit 6, tasting over 30 wines throughout the day. We now understand the disgusting practice of spitting wine into a bucket when tasting…had we consumed that much wine during our 7 hours of wineries we would have been very sick. As it was, we took advantage of the sunny weather and visited many wineries, having the lunch we packed at one of the vineyards and taking a tour at another. We also ventured out to the Horton Point lighthouse (commissioned by George Washington in 1790, built in 1857) and took advantage of the grounds, including the beach where Dan and Ben had a rock-throwing contest (again, see pics). We ended the day with dinner at a great seafood place called Eon, which came highly recommended by the locals. In the end, we came home with a greater understanding of wine and a few more bottles to put in the wine rack.

As for me, tomorrow I live it up not only because it’s the last day before I start school and disappear from the face of the earth, but I also catch up with Dan; I will be 28. With that, I will sign off. I have to go buy some wrinkle cream.