Grand Central, NYC

Han came by NY not too long ago.  After dinner at Aburiya Kinnosuke, we took a stroll at Grand Central before we go home.  Aburiya Kinnosuke has two (now three) sister restaurants.  One is the Yakitori Totto.  The food at Aburiya Kinnosuke is more like a fusion type between Japanese and American (based on what we ordered that day).  While itt was good and different (and also expensive), we still prefer Yakitori Totto.  I do recommend you to try it at least once though.

Because the table we got was small, so the food's original presentations were only SHOWN to us by the waiter and then he divided the food into portions.   As a result, no photos of the food.  I feel sad as the food presentations looked very nice.



You need to have a steady hand (this is really more suitable for the tripod) AND steady people to get non blurry photos. Joy and I failed to stay still for too long. Han's was not too bad though.






Love this one. Would have loved this even more if I got the letter "T" in "Tracks". Saw the couple and had to press the shutter immediately so there was no time to think.

Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park

Since we came back from Taiwan, we have not taken Cadi out to any trip. Since we know (more like a guess) Cadi misses going out so much, we decided to go on a day trip on an April weekend when the weather turned warmer.

With a baby, it's not that easy to go on a long trip so we wanted to look for a nearby place and the "Planting Fields Arboretum State History Park" turned up. A place found by my sister that's not too far from where we live. When I first hear the name, I was thinking of mountains and little streams mainly due to "state history park", not so (and I couldn't think of any mountains in LI either). Apparently, I have not gone on enough state parks that aren't mountains and streams. =D Well, check out the photos to get a partial sense of what this park is about. You won't know all as we did not explore all there is to explore in the park.




Joy being, well, joyful.


Cadi striking a weird pose and my sister hiding from camera.


Love this house's roof. Can't believe it's not flat. Wonder if anyone still does this. I'm not crazy about it's color though. :)




A cactus flower from a greenhouse in the park. Disclaimer: We did not harm the plant in anyway. This is picked up from the ground...I think.




Joy being joyful again.

While in the garden, we overheard someone saying there's a beach nearby. Since the park closes early, of course we wanted to check out the beach. We didn't have the exact location but with GPS, we managed to find a park with a bit of a "beach". Though we are not sure if this is the place that we overheard from.








I shot quite a few of these people playing, posting two here. Don't know why but I love this series.


The park has a playground. The playground has a swing. The swing has Cadi.