The weekend of January 28th, Charlie's parents Leslie and Tom came to visit us. They flew into Newark on Thursday afternoon and Charlie picked them up from the airport. After settling in, the four of us went to dinner at a new (well new to us) Italian place in nearby Allendale called Meza Luna. We all enjoyed our meals and came back to our house to play the card game Wizard. On Friday, Tom and Leslie relaxed at our house with Griffey while Katie had to work the whole day and Charlie worked a half day. He came home for lunch and brought his parents to our favorite bagel shop in Ramsey-Goldberg's Bagels. Friday evening we had made reservations at a restaurant called Half Moon in Dobbs Ferry, New York which is about 20 miles north of Manhattan. Coming from our place we took the Tappan Zee Bridge and through the historic Hudson Valley of New York. In distance, we could see the Manhattan skyline and restaurant had a great patio on the river unfortunately it was too cold to use it. We tried the duck nachos for an appetizer which was really good and had a steaks for dinner.
On Saturday, we went into the city for lunch and to see the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For lunch, we chose a really cute French restaurant called
Orsay on the Upper East Side. The restaurant was delicious and only a few blocks from the Museum.
After lunch, we walked over to the Museum, which is enormous....good thing we wore comfortable shoes. There was so much to see, so we tried to get a sampling of as much as we could. The two must sees was the baseball card exhibit (for Charlie...I think this was the only reason he came to an art museum) and the Fabrege collection (for Leslie). The baseball card exhibit was on a short wall and comes from a collection that was donated from Jefferson Burdick who had over 30,000 baseball cards and the Museum rotates the cards into a much more managable exhibit. During January, there were 50 cards showcased for the "Breaking the Color Barrier in Major League Baseball" theme. The Fabrege was also a small exhibit but Leslie really enjoyed it. Fabrege comes from a Russian jeweler who made very intricate jewelry and most famously the intricate Fabrege eggs that were made for Russian royalty in the early 1900's. Some other interesting exhibits we saw included the Arms and Armor exhibit, the Revolutionary War artwork and the classic European masters such as Degas, Monet and Picasso.
After wearing ourselves out all over the museum, we walk by Central Park and then took the train from Penn Station back to Ramsey. We all went to get pizza at our favorite pizza place - Kinchley's.
Sunday we all relaxed around the house - and again got some food from Goldberg's. Tom and Leslie helped us take down our Christmas tree and decorations. It was a great weekend spending time with Tom and Leslie!.
