Another weekend....

On Saturday, I and Coni met with our friends and went to the beach ; the weather was OK, a little windy, but the water was great!
On Sunday, we went to an R&B concert with Joe, Ginuwine and Chico De Barge, in Central Park. Towards the end of concert it started raining and we got soaking wet...it was fun in a way, dancing and singing in the rain!!! If you are curious you could check all the three singers on You Tube. They are OK.
We ended the day by going to another concert, this time a jazz one, at MoMa (Museum of Modern Art). We listen to Dafnis Prieto Si O Si Quartet. It was really interesting, a combination of sounds of Cuba and New Orleans. They premiered the song "Bla Bla Bla" and the response "Bla Bla".
Both concerts are part of Summer Stage in NYC.
Unfortunately, I forgot the camera home and I don't have pictures...
Corina and Kevin left for their cruise to Alaska....

Appollo11

Today is the 40th anniversary of the first manned mission to land on the Moon -July 16, 1969.
"One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind " this is the famous phrase made part of history by Neil Armstrong, when he touched the lunar surface.
I remember vaguely, we were living in Targoviste at that time and I saw everything life on TV - I thing it was night time?!...

Bruno

This week end we went to see the movie "Bruno". Very daring and not politically correct at all... Sacha Baron Cohen, the same actor who played Borat, now is playing Bruno, a gay Austrian fashion devotee who goes to extremes to achieve celebrity in United States, exposing many odd things of the American society.

Summer Stage

Today, in Bryant Park has started the annual Broadway Festival. Five weeks, every Thursday will be presented performances from top Broadway shows: STOMP, The Phantom of the Opera, Chicago, Jersey Boys or Mama Mia, to name a few.
The first day was OK, plenty of people enjoying nice weather and good music...



















Scene from the musical "Avenue Q"

4th of July

Fireworks in NYC....unfortunately my pictures were not good at all, so I found those on line and I posted them as mine. I hope nobody will mind!!!

Waiting for fireworks to start. We are on the sun deck of the building....

Happy Independence Day

A little history lesson: on July 2, 1776 the 13 Colonies of North America overthrew the governance of the Parliament of Great Britain and rejected the British monarchy to become the sovereign United States of America. On July 4 was adopted the Declaration of Independence, date which now is celebrated as Independence Day. It is a national holiday marked by patriotic displays. People spend the day by going to parades, picnics and in the evening to see the fireworks.









Declaration of Independence, painting by John Trumbull - shows the five-man committee in charge of drafting the Declaration as it presents its work to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

This year Corina and Kevin are the hosts of our 4th of July party. I will post pictures tomorrow...