Sunday in the Park with Turbo and Lace

So today was kind of a calm day. We slept late on Sunday morning and spent a large part of the morning playing Mario Kart on the Gamecube. This was of course dominated by me, but props to Turbo and Lace for really sticking to it and giving me a run for my banana peels (this would actually continue throughout the vacation).

The relaxing morning was in preparation for a trip out to Montauk for my sister's company picnic. The ride out was nice, and we got to see a little of the sound, and the park was tucked into a nice little area on Long Island. I got to meet the people that my sister works with, and we had a tasty lunch of hot dogs, hamburgers and more hot dogs. After lunch we went over to a softball field and played a pickup game. Nothing too competitive here, but lots of fun nonetheless. We hung out for a little while longer and left.

The ride home, we took a little detour over to one of the rich neighborhoods to look at some houses, and let me tell you, they were incredible (unfortunately, I don't have the capability to upload the pictures that I took here, otherwise there would be a link...but fear not as it will be the first thing I do when i get home). You have to remember when you look at the pictures that land and area in general in NY is at a premium, so the fact that these houses are on roughly an acre of land makes them RIDICULOUSLY expensive...BEFORE you even consider the house. Please also note that these pictures were taken at 20-30 mph, so they may not be the best pictures imaginable, but they work.

After we arrived home, we hung out for a little while, then decided to go get some dinner. Some insight into all that is Tim, I am not an adventurous eater. I have cultivated almost 28 years of eating experience, and I am pretty sure that I know what I like and don't like, and while the fact that I don't really take wild leaps when deciding what to eat probably precludes me from really enjoying my food life, I am really ok with that. All that being said, I decided before I got here that I would indulge Turbo and Lace a little and eat where they chose. Please also know that my sister and her boyfriend don't consider a restaurant a viable one unless there is a line out the door, and they are the only people not of the food's ethnicity in the restaurant (it is even better if they don't speak English there). So we went to a Pakistani-Indian-Bangladeshi place called Roti Boti, and they got me to eat some sort of spicy chicken kabob, spicier beef kabob (kind of dry) and something called kee-ma, which is essentially some kind of ground chicken in pepper stuff (it made my nose run). All in all, it was an enjoyable dinner, made more so by the flat-screen TV showing Indian music videos while we ate. Total price for all three of us: $23.00

After that it was off to home and time for bed. Monday will bring about bagels, Magnolia's, the best cupcake of my life, and a surprise for a high school friend.

Until then!!