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This is a little late as it was almost two weeks ago, but I wanted to come back and revisit our second day in NYC.

Our room at the Best Western President Hotel. It was just perfect for us until we fell asleep that night. Our window was on the side of the street and right next door to the fire department. We got woken up several times from firetrucks or the garbage truck. The joys of staying in NYC.

We took the subway over to Grand Central Station. It was my first experience there and its more than breathtaking.

After Grand Central, we went to the Museum of Modern Art. The first three photos are from an exhibit Projects 90: Song Dong. Its all the items that came from his mother’s house, collected over 50 years, including the hut structure. It was incredible to see all of it laying out.

I’m going to be posting more photos from MoMA tomorrow.

A lastly we stopped at Crumbs Bakery. Red Velvet Cupcake. YUM!!

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Anthony & I are currently in NYC for two days. We decided this on a whim last week and here we are. Just a few from today. We went down Wall Street, rode the Staten Island Ferry, walked around Times Square, had dinner at Schnippers (great sloppy joes across from the Port Authority Bus Station), and saw Next to Normal. A few photos from today. Tomorrow its suppose to be rainy so we’re gonna do the Museum of Modern Art.

Wall Street/New York Stock Exchange

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Saturday we took a break from the hustle & bustle to celebrate birthdays. Anthony has two younger brothers and they all three celebrate birthdays in the month of July (actually within 5 days of each other). We celebrated in a quiet way by stopping at Halo Farms near the Trenton Farmer’s Market in the morning, a quick visit out to Terhune Orchards, and then a leisurely afternoon seeing Harry Potter.

I had never been out to Halo Farms (970 Spruce Street, Trenton, NJ (609) 695-3311), but had heard about it and even tried their ice cream before. We pulled up and were greeted by “cows” milling around on the side of the building. They were really creative in their placement of the cows, even had several around a “watering hole”. The big shocker to me was walking in and seeing the prices on everything. A half gallon of milk is currently $1.09. That beats any grocery store around here. Ice cream is buy 2, get 3rd free. We took advantage of the ice cream and ice tea. Too bad I had just bought a gallon of milk at the store two days before.

The family at Halo Farms (Noah, Taylor, Vicki, Gram, Anthony, Nanny)

The birthday boys; Taylor (21), Noah (15), Anthony (27)

Up next: Sunday in NYC

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Last Saturday Terhune Orchards held their annual Blueberry Bash. Anthony and I ventured over there to visit the orchard, get some pictures and fresh produce. We ended up not picking any blueberries, but I did get some phenomenal empire apples in their store (which empire is my favorite apple) as well as green beans, zucchini and more.

Clockwise: Raspberry, blueberries, blueberry trees, unripped blackberries, and some apples.

I felt like these needed a vintage processing.

LOVE their husband & wife scarecrows.

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Memorial Day, Anthony and I decided to head to Doylestown, PA to visit the Mercer Museum. This was an item on our Schmidt’s Adventure.

Henry Mercer gathered everyday life items from the 18th and 19th centuries and completed a 6 story stone castle to house the collection. The objects document the lives and tasks of early America, before the Industrial Revolution. Mercer had quite the organizational skills, placing like items in their own alcoves, i.e. file making, printing, tinsmithing, wallpaper, harvesting, etc. He also placed the items in importance to the individuals. The first few floors are items that were essential and then the higher floors were for luxury and items for fun.

With Rollo, Mercer’s dog.

This exhibit really caught my eye, wallpaper and textile making.

When you first walk into the museum, you see the central court with a whale boat and more. I didn’t realize Anthony was in the shoot, but I love that he is looking up in amazement. There is so much stuff crammed into this castle its amazing. There are even baskets and cradles on the ceiling.

Outside of the museum/castle.

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Part of our adventures in the northeast included seeing a taping of the Colbert Report (can be seen on Comedy Central at 11 EST). We completed that on Thursday (I will do another post with that picture and more details later). The taping was in the evening, so we went into NYC early to walk around.  I didn’t want to bring my camera gear for many reasons, so the P&S came out!  We went down to the Brooklyn Bridge and the WTC area. They are heavily edited and many of them have textures applied.  I may blow up one of the Brooklyn Bridge pictures to hang in our living room. Leave a comment telling me which one you think (I’ll probably print in B&W).

We wanted to see ground zero but they are in the process of building the memorial site. They have huge fences with pictures so you can’t really see in. I was a little bit bummed, but just being down there is something else. One of the buildings next door has very little damage – I was very surprised about this. This church is right across the street from the site. The towers would have been straight on.

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