Snowscrapers and Putt-Putt Golf

Saturday morning, after Seth met his brother early to work on a project they are starting (up at 6 a.m. on a Saturday... in my sleep I say "Go You!"), plans were made to meet for brunch and head into the city to a snow festival. We were both excited to spend our day with Phoenix! Our brunch destination was Bar Toto, which I've been craving for a couple weeks but have been unable to coax S to walk that far for brunch.


After brunch, we hopped on the F train and headed towards the Lower East Side for Winter Jam 2009 on the East River.

We saw a group of trampoline jumpers called the Skyriders. Loved the Williamsburg Bridge as the backdrop to the jumpers.

There was a 90-foot "snowscraper" for snowboarders to board down and do their jumps. We didn't stay long enough to see them go full on, but did catch a few jumps.

One of the snowboarders. Made me a bit nervous... I'd never be able to get the point of making a jump like that myself!

After we were snow fest-ed out, we headed towards Union Square so Seth and Ethan could pack up a few things from their old office and take to their new office.

The blue wall I posted a picture of yesterday (of myself) was a focus of my attention. I made Stephanie stand and let me take a pictures as I tested out different settings on my camera! She was such a good sport and let me click my heart out! This was my favorite shot, one of I've been wanting to try for a while.

To fill the rest of our time, we joined Phoenix at the putt-putt golf course on the floor below. (He had tried to convince me to venture downstairs with him on our short office adventure, but I guess I'm not as brave as his mama and him!) Stephanie and I followed them to their discovery downstairs.

There were 3 holes and a view of some wonderful rooftop gardens. I wish I had a golf area at work!

Phoenix putting the ball in.

There were 3 holes. One had the white cup to catch the ball. The second had the cup, but it wasn't staying in the hole correctly and had to be fixed (until P and his mama made the cup stick completely). The third was completely missing a hole. After putting a while, P turned his attention to the hole and what was down in it. We pulled out many things, including white plastic shavings and a ply-wood half moon. In order to see if anything else was down in the hole, a camera was used to snap pictures of the space underneath. The white cup was seen just a bit further, and I was the one who got my arm shoved down the hole to recover the it! I only had a short moment of panic on whether or not my arm would come back out -- the things we do for our favorite nephew!! :)

The view from the putting green.

S and E moving their boxes from one office to the next. Phoenix thought it would be a good time to give Uncle Seth a little tickle! We side-tracked him with a fun game of chase so Uncle Seth could focus on carrying the box and not drop it! :)

Seth and I love that cute little smile!