Be careful what you wish for...

You know the old story about the couple that was given three wishes then the squandered them on stupid things, and ended up with nothing?

Well on Monday, Christine and I were driving around a packed parking lot, could not find a space anywhere.  Christine mentioned something that she wished for, and I replied.  "I just wish I could find a parking space!"  I turn a corner and bam! there is a parking space near the front of the store right in front of me.  Ever since then, no matter where I go, no matter how busy the parking lot, I have been able to find one in the first two rows.  Yesterday at the busy grocery store, on the street in front of the butcher shop, picking up Ian from preschool.  Great parking no matter where I go. 

I tried to immediately wish for gold bars, but so far, nothing.

Museums

We only have 2-3 years here, and so much to see, so we really need to get to it.  Doug got a little bonus this week, which ended up being just enough to buy a membership to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History.  Now we can go for a year for free!  (Well not free, parking is $30 at least and it costs $8 to cross the bridge into the city, and believe it or not, that is the cheapest way to get to the city). 

The Museum in mind boggling just in its size.  Really it is bigger than I can comprehend.  It has more room dedicated to stairways than many museums have in total square footage. 

The museum has this terrific map for children, so we told Ian to point to something he wanted to see and we would go find it.
We first went to Egyptian wing to see some mummies, Ian was relieved that they didn't really wake up and wander around moaning, but did think that he wouldn't like to be around when they got resurrected. 

Then he picked a Rembrandt portrait on the totally other side of the museum.  On the way we came across this terrific painting.  Isn't that charming?

Then he picked the Greek wing, and we realized he was just picking the thing furthest from where we were, anyway I had to override him because on the way to the paintings I caught a glimpse of this:

The gold statue in the center is by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and the archway on the right is designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany.  Had to go there.

On very few occasion something is so overwhelmingly beautiful I literally get weak in the knees.  I just sat on the edge of the fountain in the picture just to take it in. 

Here's a close up of the pillars

We spent all day between this museum and the museum of natural history, and just scratched the surface.  Can't wait to go back.

So I'm finally updating....

After watering the lawn, making breakfast, checking facebook, emailing people, checking all the blogs on google reader and playing 3 different computer games, my house is STILL full of cardboard boxes, so clearly I need to update my blog.  Maybe that will do the trick.  If not I will have to resort to UNPACKING which would be pretty tragic. 

So we live in a small town, which we love. I usually think of living in a small town as a town in the middle of fields or mountains with nothing around it.  This small town is surrounded by lots of other small towns and beyond that is NYC. 

Something I really love about our house is that there is a church a block away with a bell tower that chimes every hour.  How cool is that?

 Just down the street is a nice library, it is smallish, but has a nice collection and the kids can easily walk to it.

We are also two blocks away from the the elementary and middle school, which is nice.

So far we have only met one of our neighbors, but waved at a lot of people walking by.  There are always people walking by, which means either that people walk A LOT in this neighborhood (even at midnight) or that people are just walking by to check out the new neighbors.

Sorry about no pictures, but I bought the wrong size batteries for my camera.