Halloween 2012

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I have been meaning to post about the Halloween this year — well, we had like 3 things to go to, but everything was cancelled due to the hurricane Sandy! So we just stayed home and played a little dress up :) (We all went for a walk in a costume, but outside was so dark due to the blackouts and no one was in costume! Well, very few kids… it was the least fun Halloween night I’ve ever had since I came to the US…)

Last year, Mili was only a few weeks old, I tried to take the same pictures and compared them with the pumpkin hat on… she grew so much!

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And Mili and Maia as witch :) *I was going to be one, too… but oh well.

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Hope we can lots of fun stuff next year!

Today’s Bridge 10.30.12

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We went for a walk yesterday around 2:30pm since the hurricane was gone and seemed okay to go outside and we saw some devastated area… The park was remain closed…

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The Main Street still had some water…

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We went back there again today, people were starting to clean everywhere. We saw someone drew the line with “Sandy” on the restaurant Buddy’s wall — that’s how much the water came during the hurricane.

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Nearby shops like Powerhouse Arena and One Girl Cookies were cleaning the mess this morning… I hope everything gets back to normal soon… including everywhere in NYC.

Hurricane Sandy

Oh my lord, Hurricane Sandy hit hard NYC last night, caused lots of flooding, power outage and more. Our building is fine, we didn’t lose power or anything thankfully, but we did lose cable and Internet so we couldn’t really see what was really happening last night… (I have an iPhone and so checked twitter updates often) This morning, our Internet is back, found these pictures from our neighborhood DUMBO, I couldn’t believe it…

There are more unbelievable pictures on theAtlantic.com (all the photos above are from the Atlantic) if you have a second, look around here and here.

My heart goes out to all the people who have been affected by the hurricane and I hope the city gets back to normal soon…

Arty Chairs

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There are these cool arty chars in the new area on Old Fulton Street by the Pier 1. Caught my eye.

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This one below is my favorite :) Reminds me of Maia the dachshund.

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This the the new area that they added:

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There are few more cool ones, but people were using them so I didn’t take pictures…

We are stuck at home for the Hurricane Sandy to pass today… hope nothing serious happens… Stay safe and dry if you are in East Coast! xo Hijiri