A Banner Week

It has been a busy week in New York since my last post, and I am living in the middle of it!

To lead off, the Yankees won the World Series! It was a fantastically charged evening. Cheers from fans that enjoyed it a little too much were echoing down the street until 2 a.m. Every open door down the street was blaring the game and fans were rooting for their favorite player.

I missed the parade but everyone was talking about it. From the bar under our apartment in the seventh inning:

Last Sunday was a fantastic time to be out in the city. The New York City marathon was two blocks from our front door. We walked to the blocked off street to find thousands of fans lining 1st Avenue cheering the runners on and music blaring in the streets.

Some runners marked their running gear with their names and the supporters cheered everyone on by name! There was more energy in the air then I'd ever felt here before. If you're not going to run it, watching is the second best thing (maybe the first best because you don't have to run 26.2 miles).

We had a friend running in the race, so I made signs and waited to cheer her on at mile 24 at 90th street on her way through Central Park. We waited for about 20 minutes, and I lost my voice yelling for every runner that went by.

Every street was full of supporters screaming for the runners, from Red Hook to Williamsburg, the Bronx, Harlem and along Central Park. Each area was stationed with music and cheering crowds.

GO SHELLEY!
Halloween kicked off the week of festivities. The parade rained us out, so we headed to a house party in Brooklyn. House parties are a little harder to pull off in the city, by the way.

Our evening portraits before we left for the fun, Slim as the evil Jack-O-Lantern or something:

Swamp Thing!!!
Nobody got this, by the way. I got: Mother Earth, a bush/shrub, Spring, a lady in a burka that fell into the a pile of leaves/a homeless bag-lady.

It's been a busy week, but surprisingly fantastic. I love the energy in the city.