Friday, September 11, 2009

The Whiskey Cruise Was Great!!

We had a wonderful time last night on the whiskey cruise. It was held on one of the Spirit of NY ships that sails around Manhattan. As soon as you enter the ship they hand you a map of where all the vendors for the different whiskeys are located. Mainly the whiskeys were from Scotland and Ireland. You get to taste and learn about what you want. The even had some tasting seminars during the cruise. I did not really know much about whiskey before the cruise.

In addition to the whiskey tasting there was some really good food for dinner....chicken, salmon, a wonderful salad, great vegetables, pasta. So it was not hard sticking to my healthy eating plans.

We were supposed to have really bad weather last night...rain and winds. But the bad weather did not start until our cruise was over. So we were able to go out on deck and see Manhattan all lit up. We went under some bridges which was great. I think one of them was the Brooklyn Bridge. Also last night they had the lights on for the twin tower memorial. That was really nice to see since I has not seen it before. We also went past the statue of liberty. I had never seen her at night before.

There were 14 of us in our group...mainly members of my husband's piping band. We had such a great time we plan on doing it again next year.

ship

CD

whiskies

towers

 

Chris

Monday, September 7, 2009

New Kitties in the House

My daughter raised 2 kittens this summer that were abandoned by their mother (a stray) at 3 days old. Initially she had to syringe feed formula to them every two hours. They are now about 9 weeks old and are a lot of fun. We have adopted them for her until she is done with school.  We have to keep them separate from our other cat since we are not sure how he will react to them. He can be really nasty.

My husband got a photo of the girl (Panini) tonight.  The boy is called Chowder.  He also took some video to send to our daughter.

Here is Panini sitting on one of my quilts.

panini

Chris

Friday, September 4, 2009

Some Vacation Photos

Finally I got some photos from my husband from our vacation in Amsterdam and Bruges.  He did not take too many photos so I did not have a lot to choose from.

Bruges

brugge

My daughter, Kelsey, having a beer our first night in Bruges at a restaurant in the central square area.

kelsey beer

A windmill in the Bruges area. We saw this on a bike ride.  Unfortunately this was the day my daughter’s camera was stolen.

windmill

Amsterdam canals.

amsterdam 2

amsterdam

My daughter’s boyfriend eating pancakes in Amsterdam.  Imagine how many calories these are…yikes!  I did not eat much of mine and managed to lose 2.2 pounds on vacation.  We did a tremendous amount of walking.

pancakes

All of us outside a dive bar called Gollem.  We went to this bar twice while we were there and had a few beers.

gollum

Chris