Last Minute Things....

So no matter how much time you spend at home, 3 weeks OR 3 months, it's always that LAST last week of rushing around that makes you go crazy. And then you start remembering everything you have to do before you leave because there is a deadline now "oh, i'm actually leaving the country soon!"...things that you've put off like a big pile of papers sitting in your room for months that you have to go through and don't know what to do with, or putting your hundreds of pictures in an album after about 4 years...

All that to say, I've been busy here with the usual stuff, including seeing people for the last time for a while - meeting up for breakfast, lunch or dinner - whatever fits the schedules ...

These pics which Nicole and Tony know REALLY well is basically just to make them jealous. OH i mean, to remember how much we LOVE this place: One of the MOST awesome restaurants around is Villa Mosconi's - AMAZING homemade Italian pasta and a great armosphere. We love it because we know everyone that works there :) They are great and we recommend this place to everyone who comes to NYC...it's also right next door to where Nicole and Tony's wedding reception was in Manhattan.

This was breakfast this morning, the 7 Star Diner in Whitestone, NY where the rest of my family lives. We've been doing breakfast actually once a week for the last few weeks so the waitress got to know us pretty well.. she knew this was my last time there, but it'd be a trade-off with my brother who will be flying in for a visit on Saturday, so she'll get to see him next week..New Yorkers are great sometimes, they're like your best friend. We also notice that in a lot of family pics, it's hard to get my grandfather to actually look at the camera long enough for his face to be seen. He's usually looking another direction, except this time he just probably wanted to eat...