Weekends and The Wizard of Oz...

The last two weekends have been quite fun around here. There's a lot going on! That's one thing we really love about New York... always so much happening! It's almost hard to decide what to do sometimes, and I'm constantly paranoid that there are fun things happening that we're missing because we don't know about them. While I'm still unemployed, I'm going to try and go through some of the good websites and create a "calendar" for the next few months of all the things we could potentially do. Should be fun! Anyway, here are a few pics of some of the fun things we've been doing:

On Saturday, September 26, the Smithsonian Institution sponsored a nationwide "Museum Day." Several museums were free that day, so we decided to check out the South Street Seaport Museum. The museum is located at the very bottom tip of Manhattan, right across the river from Brooklyn.

The best part of the museum was touring the boats in the harbor. We had fun taking pictures.

Another fun thing we did last week was go to a showing of The Wizard of Oz in Central Park. The event was in honor of the movie's 70th anniversary. Before the movie began, they had a concert where artists sang songs their renditions of songs from the movie, as well as songs related to the movie (like selections from Wicked). The headliner was Jennifer Hudson. She was amazing!

Here's the screen, and the crowd of people. It wasn't a very big space, and they cut the line off right after we got in!

The stage where the musicians performed.


The movie!

It was cold... we had to huddle together for warmth!

So that's a bit of what we've been doing. This coming weekend should be even better... my family is coming to see us! We are so excited... can't wait to write about their visit.