Evan's Pool Party 2017

Saturday we all enjoyed a pool party at "Swedish Erica", Brian, and Evan's place in Mt. Sinai. Thanks for having us over! Long Island life is sweet!

Erica, Erica, and Ericka - our name is our bond, haha

Miranda on the inflatable poo

The kids relaxing

Hot tub fun!

Playing games

Kyle, James, and Kacy

January Date Night 2017

Here's a little insight into our sexy Long Island date nights. We had dinner at a Greek restaurant, Alexandros, followed by a Harbor Front Concert at the PJ Village Center. Then we tried a random bar for drinks, Portside Bar, and it was a little sketchy. No pictures inside the sketchy bar.

Enjoying his Manhattan

A Rumchata martini 

Ofir Tomer

Rosa Jang

Pokemon with Adam and Colleen 2016

Okay, so I've been playing Pokemon Go since July 11, about a week after it was released in the US. It's not the big time waster that people assume it is because you have to walk to play so it overlaps with the time I spent walking and exercising before. The thing that makes it a bit of a time-waster is that now it's harder for me to listen to podcasts or audiobooks while walking.

One problem is that there are no "pokestops" (not to be confused with "gyms") anywhere near my house. You need the things you collect from pokestops- such as pokeballs- to catch the Pokemon. I tried to walk to the closest ones and they are way too far. Also, there aren't a lot of sidewalks in my neighborhood so it's not super safe to be focused on my phone while I'm walking.

Adam and Colleen offered to take me with them to the park nearby where there are a ton of stops around a walking track. I had so much fun! I had great company, we got exercise, and the track was full of other locals playing. We were all talking to each other and would randomly run to catch a Pokemon or to tell other people where to catch one. A bit ridiculous, but very fun.

The park- I'm the mean mom that went without my kids, haha.

The virtual version of the park.

This was our big catch of the night!