The next day I went to the park and we spotted a really big turtle that was swimming right under the boardwalk.
Just when I thought that was the biggest wild turtle I have ever seen all of a sudden my Dad spotted a head and tail sticking out of the water and under us swam a gigantic turtle! I could not get a picture of it because of the reflections on the water but it was some snapping turtle with spikes on it's back.
Later for dinner we went to Salena's Mexican Restaurant that my neighbor growing up owns with her husband. We ate with Mike and Johnny Cummings the singer and the food was very good.
The next morning I did a modeling job for Kodak which I always love doing. I wish I could work for Kodak even more than I do but I am fortunate to get any work from them!
The next day Mike and I hung out with a family friend's sons because their Father was ill with ALS. We wanted them to be out of the house for a little while and to try to take their mind off of what was going on so I played hide-and-go-seek with them in the house and we played a bunch of wii games with them. Later at night they stayed for our huge dinner celebration for Rosh Hashanah. There were 16 of us and we had a very nice dinner where I tried Matzo ball soup which I liked!
The weekend of September 30th Sarah, Mike and I went to New York City!
Sarah and I wanted to look for apartments so we planned some appointments for the weekend to look at some that were available. We made most of our appointments in Brooklyn so that we could try to save some money. We went to our first appointment and the landlord was running late. While we were waiting a tenant came out and we asked him about the neighborhood and the building. The man told us that he has lived there for three years and it is not a bad place but then he said "I feel obligated to tell you that a man was murdered in this building last month."Needless to say we were not going to live there and we decided it was not worth going to the other apartments nearby in Brooklyn.
We quickly started looking up postings for apartments in Manhattan and made some appointments to go to. That night Sarah went to meet up with one of her friends and Mike and I went to our friend's place and hung out with people there. We grabbed a bite to eat and then headed to Webster Hall to listen to a group that got signed to the music company that our friend works for called Pilot Creative. The group performed very well and we had a fun night!
The next morning we went to a place that we really liked and we were considering to go for it but we wanted to look at some places that were in lower Manhattan. We went to some other appointments and then stopped for dinner. We ate Giano and it was a nice atmosphere and good food.
The next day we went to more apartments and we liked a lot of them. We could not decide if we should apply for any of them so we went to dinner at Yuca Bar to think about it. The food was very good there too and we decided that we would stay one more day in the city and look around and decide which apartment we wanted to apply for. We went back to see our friend Rick who goes to NYU and him and his roommates and us headed out to Fat Cat to play some ping pong. It was really neat inside, they had a bunch of different games to play and we had fun.
The next morning we went to a couple more appointments and found an apartment that we wanted to apply for! We went to John's Pizza mmmm and then drove Sarah to the Newark airport and drove back home to Rochester!
