long island for a year

Last weekend we had a great time in the City. We drove - Ralph drove, that is - to New York (why on hell aren't there fast trains in this Country? Can someone hear me???) anyway...we started the morning with a must: the Tim Burton exhibition at the MoMA - I am a proud member for this year and I need to use it, don't I? - and this was really weird. Guess it was intentional... We expected Carlotta to be scared but she was fine (I was hiding the body-less head with my shoulder when we walked by, just in case). I am not so much into cartoons but I enjoyed most of the movies directed by Tim Burton - mostly because Johnny Depp is in the cast and because I like Batman...and as you might have noticed, I like Prince - that's a genius, writing an entire soundtrack based on dialogues from a movie, unbelievable!!! Also, check out Candy Dulfer playing the saxophone. Ok, I'll stop it. I do appreciate the ironic and grotesque attitude towards fear but bottom line is: I like...

On Sunday we did make it to the City, managed to find a free parking spot not far from Moma and we enjoyed the Bauhaus exhibit...Carlotta was busy eating her candy necklace and she didn't complain much and Bastian was fine. Visiting museums with kids isn't always a piece of cake - and if you add to it that in winter you need half an hour to get dress, then undress and maybe go to the restroom just when you would like to see the last rooms or the last work of art then it all becomes more a stress than a pleasure. I am very glad though that Carlotta liked at least one of the works of Bauhaus: a stained glass composition of Albers, that is. Well, it was colorful and very pretty and not so strict like many of the other works of art. No, let's don't start a discussion about art, I am trying to think with the mind of a four year old girl. To turn this a bit, I'll tell you about the game she wanted to play yesterday afternoon: she said we were supposed to play "mom w...

To avoid too much countryness, we decided to spend the weekend in the City...strolling, eating Chinese food, listening to music. Do I need more?Mhhh...no actually I don't. Here are some pics.