Posing in Santorini

Katie and I had a great vacation in Greece with a stop in London on the way home. We took LOTS of pictures at Tim and Evy's wedding, around Paros and Santorini, Athens and London, which you can see more of at these links: WEDDING - PAROS - SANTORINI - ATHENS - LONDON

Sailing... takes me away... from where I'm going... Hmmmm Hmmmmm.

Sailing with the Redmonds. I took Katie and her parents out on one of the boats I teach on for a sail in NY Harbor.

updates!

So I have been busy (and lazy) and haven't been taking many pictures or updating the blog lately. I finally was able to catch up a little bit so see below for some updates on what I've been up to the past couple months...

Friday night at the beach...

Went to Water Taxi Beach on Friday after work. Played some volleyball and had a great time. The view here is amazing, especially once the sun goes down and the lights go on...

Perks...

Katie had a program at the Mandarin hotel in the Time Warner Center and had a room there for a couple nights. It was great timing as it came right in the middle of the heat wave and we got to stay there in the air conditioning. This is the morning view from our room on the 53rd floor...

Climbin' the Gunks

My co-worker Evan is a rock climbing nut. He took another co-worker, Juan, and me up to the Shawanagunk Ridge a couple hours upstate. We had a really good time, although rain cut the climbing a little short. I was equally excited just to get out into the woods a little bit and hike around. Too bad I don't have a truck anymore :-)
This is me with the big boy harness on, getting ready to climb...

Here's me scaling the wall like Spidey. Each of the different climbing routes have their own name. I believe this was named after some sort of breakfast food.

They pay me to do this...

I took my camera out with me on one of my Thursday night sailing classes that I teach. It's a pretty cool to teach sailing someplace where you can say "Just steer towards the Statue of Liberty for a while."

4th of July

We watched the fireworks down by the Brooklyn Bridge this year. Macy's puts on quite a show. These were taken with my cell phone.

The skyline after the show.

The other Long Beach

Does every state on the ocean have a town called Long Beach? Anyways, this is Long Beach, NY. We took the Long Island Railroad from Brooklyn to Long Beach and had a nice day walking the boardwalk and checking out the town. The beach is nice and clean, partly because you have to pay $7 to get onto the sand. A strange concept for Californian.

More Coney Island photos...

I know I have a lot of Coney Island photos on this blog, but I love the place and I think it makes for interesting photos (and I usually seem to remember to bring my camera). Katie's parents gave us some tickets for the Cyclones game and we had a great time. Here are the Cyclones in action with the amusement park in the background...