US OPEN

Meadowland Park

Federer and Nadal

Hurricane Danny...

...it was a smaller one, so our week end wasn't a complete was out. It rained all Saturday morning, but in the afternoon the weather cleared up nicely so we went to US Open. Although the tournament will start on Monday, there are all kinds of activities, players in the qualifier rounds or the favorites practicing. Yesterday we got lucky and saw both Federer and Nadal. Federer exchanged a couple of balls with Haas on a practice court, but Nadal played on Louis Armstrong court, with Monaco an entire set, very strongly not at all like a practice session. We found seats right in the front row, next to Rafa and uncle Tony, who all the time was coaching him on how to improve his game. At the end of the game, Coni got an autograph from him.
I hope Nadal will win the tournament, but he still is not on top of his game....
Today, Sunday we intend to go to the beach in Coney Island....

PS: We went to the beach and had a good time, the weather was great, sun and not windy, but unfortunately because of dangerous rip currents entering in the water was ban.

Lincoln Center

I should rewrite yesterday's entry because it was a boring week end up to a point, in the afternoon at the last moment we decided to go and see a concert at Lincoln Center. It was a nice ending to a really great season of music and dancingas all part of summerstage in the City. Next Monday starts the US Open, sign that the fall is near...

Boring Sunday

Today we wanted to go to the beach. Unfortunately, hurricane Bill changed our plans, it's raining and the beaches are closed because of dangerous rip tides. We have things to do around the house but it's boring, boring, boring....

Happy Anniversary

August 21, I and Coni celebrated 33 years of marriage. I can't believe it but this is another story... Corina and Kevin surprised us with dinner and a Broadway show. We went to Tony's, a restaurant in Times Square and afterwards we went to "Jersey Boys" the play that I always wanted to see. We decided that our anniversary song to be "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", by Frankie Valli. It was a grate day, thank you Corina and Kevin!!!

Woodstock Pictures

The Spirit of Woodstock

Woodstock at 40

Woodstock turned the big 4-0 this week end and we were so lucky to be there, at Bethel Woods Centerfor the Arts. The festival's peace and love message was swallowed, like everything else now a days, by commercialism, but the legacy is not fading. The concert called "The Heroes of Woodstock", was great and so different than all others concerts that we've been to and we've seen plenty - only to name Bon Jovi. Here, the show was not only on the stage but outside too. The concert started and ended with Jimi Hendrix's "Star-Spangled Banner", and in between many of the bands from the original concert : Ten Years After, Jefferson Airplane, Sha Na Na, The Band etc. From 5pm to 1am, 8 hours of good music in an an 1969 atmosphere!
Outside, instead of skinny hippies sliding in mud, on older generation of hippies alongside their children and grandchildren, but all of them young at heart and in good spirits. It was fantastic! We enjoied every moment, and had a good time with our new friends....
To top everything, we were witnesses of a wedding on stage. In the middle the band Mountain' s performance, the music stopped and on the stage appeared a weeding procession: the groom , Leslie West , the leader of the group, around 65-70 years old and loaded and the bride 35-36 years old and pretty. After the priest finished the ceremony, as a weeding gift for the bride and for us, they started singing their signature song "Mississippi Queen". It was insane... lots of cheering and clapping, although was after midnight and the people were kind of tired, drunk or high (plenty of funny smells around us - to paraphrase Clinton, "I smoke but I didn't inhale" , I can say that I didn't smoke but I inhale!!!).
We arrived home around 5 in the morning..,
I will post pictures when I will have time to download them, now I am in a little bit of hurry, because the weather is excellent and we are going to the beach...

Alaska pictures

Those are a few of the pictures...more to come...

By train to Klondike in search of gold...

Tennis Tournament

On Saturday August 8th, the Romanian Medical Society of NY organised at Cedarbrook Club a tennis tournament. Coni and Cristi as friends of the organizer, Arthur, were invited to play too. It was a great day, life music, good food, lots of laughter and cheering and of course pretty good tennis...















The Champions!!!

Corina and Kevin returned from their Alaska cruise. They loved it very much, everything was new and interesting. They decided that the next adventure will be an African Safari.

I will post picture as soon as I will get them, they took around 1000 pictures, so I have plenty to chose from!!!