We’ve admittedly been bad bloggers this year. Between Alex’s own UX blog and my (newish—I guess I can’t claim that a year later) job, we’ve been too busy to maintain our personal blog this year, but we didn’t want to have an entire gap on this site for 2009, so here’s a photo recap of what we were up to in 2009:
Watched President Obama get inaugurated!
We both watched from conferences room from work—here’s one Alex took at Schematic. It was an incredibly moving day, that could only be topped by actually being in DC that day.
Took one tour of the NYC subway system
Some guy discovered the first NYC subway tunnel below Atlantic Avenue and you can now take a tour of the old tunnel. You literally crawl into a manhole on Atlantic Avenue to start the tour. Here’s a really foggy photo of us in the tunnel.
Took one wine tasting class
I didn’t take an academic class for the first year in my life since probably 1980, but we took a delicious wine pairing class at Astor Wines called “the Elements of Wine“. I would definitely recommend it if you’re looking to learn a little more about wine.
Ate the best meal of my life
At Blue Hill at Stone Barns. It was something like 15 courses and each dish was more amazing than the last, though I think the highlight was the goose egg pasta. Incredible.
Traveled to…
Mountainville, NY.
Florence, Italy
Cinque Terre, Italy
Tuscany (Siena, Luca, Arrezzo), Italy
Rome, Italy
West Dover, Vermont
Dayton, Ohio
Saugerties, NY
Edinburgh, Scotland
London, England
Paris, France
Ran one half marathon
Brooklyn, represent! We both finished in under 2 hours, which was our goal and also somewhat incredible considering we had just ate and drank our way through Italy the weeks before without a single run on the trip (though we dragged our running sneakers with us everywhere). The Brooklyn half is a great race and I’d recommend it to anyone who is thinking of running a half. There’s nothing like starting a race with Marty Markowitz yelling over the louderspeaker “Brooklyn in the house! Have a great race!”
Organized one cookie smackdown
The claim to fame here is that it brought down my entire company for the next two days thanks to the swine flu outbreak. Who wants a cookie?
Attended three weddings. Congratulations to….
Jim and Linda!
Marisa and Vinny!
Michael and Irena!
I got pregnant!
This little peanut is due March 7, 2010! We couldn’t be more excited. We have so much to do before he or she arrives.
Hosted the 5th Annual Grill Free or Die
Celebrated one ITP 30th Anniversary
And had a killer time at the reunion. It was so fun to catch up with old friends and see so many talented people back in the ITP space again. The reunion was truly inspirational, especially hearing everyone talk about what a pioneer Red Burns has been for the program. She’s an amazing lady and I feel so lucky to have gone to ITP under her chairmanship. Check out the video here. (Thanks, Buhny for the photo!)
Attended a playoff baseball game at the new Yankee Stadium
And then watched the Yankees go on to win the World Series!
Alex had one wing fixed
He had a rotator cuff injury and torn labrum. Like a serious baseball pitcher!
I gained 25 lbs (so far!)
I can’t believe I am posting this photo; this is a new level of sharing for me. I think I am around 29 weeks in this photo—and those are supposed to be “skinny” jeans. Ha! They look like weird sweatpants, which I much prefer to be wearing. Look how psyched Sasha is about the baby!
2009 was a great year. I’m sorry we didn’t keep this blog better up to date as everything happened. However, we are both vowing to be better about blogging in 2010, especially as baby Rainert’s arrival gets closer and closer. Hope you have a good 2010 and we’ll back soon to fill you in on more exciting stuff around here!
