out in the city

Dave and Gillian came to visit us (and New York) last Thursday. People often compare having an apartment in New York City with having an apartment in Moscow. Every single person you know, sometimes not particularly well, would come to visit you.

Fortunately, Dave and Gillian are good friends of ours, and they are wonderful guests who do not make your life complicated while staying at your place. Quiet opposite - they just make everything more fun! We did lots of cool things with them over last weekend !

On Friday we went to the baseball game at Yankee's Stadium. The Stadium is soon to be demolished, and they had s big count down of games before it will happen. Our game was 68th or something :) The weather was cold and windy, and thus it was unpleasant outside, but it was an exciting crowd around. Overall I had fun, even though I didn't have any idea what was going on most of time at the field.

On Sunday we went to see Macbeth with Patrick Stewart playing the leading role. And again, I didn't understand anything. I mean, I understood who killed whom, but not what they were pronouncing while raising their swords. I was counting minutes till the time when I decided a decent play was supposed to end, and was very happy to leave. Though I have to admit, that it was obviously very a well acted and staged performance, it was just me (and larger half of the audience) who did not understand Shakespeare language on the fly.

One easy-to-understand thing we did was a trip to the Bronx Zoo. I loved it, since you don't feel pain when looking at the animals there. They obviously have pretty good life there, very well taken care of and well fed. I want to go back there when Tanya comes - it will be a fun thing to do!

Our friends are living tomorrow, so we will catch up on all our tv shows and sitting at home time before going to Vermont for Miles's graduation (and my birthday)!