NY Mini

Last weekend was the annual NY mini, which meant volleyball in the sun and downing Gatorade with dumplings. Girls played regular indoor rules. Guys play this crazy 9-men set up, five blockers, three back row and one setter. Anything goes, I mean ANYTHING- you can hit, spike, dump, hook, slap, throw...CRAZYNESS!!!
It was my first time playing in this tournament and it was awesome (after my headache from the heat went away). Our team played well considering it was the first time the seven "Stealth Assassins" played together. We got creamed by the "amazon" team! But hey, so did everyone else. Man, I wish I were 6 feet tall! I still think I got stiffed as an embryo, I should have gotten the tall genes!

Montreal

Here some pictures I took when I was in Montreal for a conference. Conference was fun, but I didn't have a whole lot of time to walk around before flying back for a crazy volleyball weekend.

Texting girl and stranger

Coming home

I really should be sleeping now instead of posting these pictures of clouds (of all things!)
I took these during my return trip from Montreal.
In the air-

On the way down-

Landed-

Queensboro

I definitely have a borough bias. But given that I live SO close to the Queensboro bridge, I finally decided to turn right instead of turn left when I "went running" in the morning. I even went more than half way to Queens. I really wanted to take a picture of the sun shinining behind the tram crossing the East River, but I think I would need to park myself on that walkway for a lot longer to capture that money shot.

Blast from the past

Given my introduction below, I thought it would be appropriate to post pictures of my latest adventure around the city. My friend A and I, along with 300+ subway fanatics, got up on Sunday morning and took a ride on a super old train from midtown to Coney Island.
Here are a few pictures:

I will post more pictures of our train ride on subwaytourists.blogspot.com. It's a new blog that A and I are starting to document our adventures as subway tourists around the city. It should be interesting to see how that blog develops. I envision it being kind of schizo, since you have A who knows all the bells and whistles of a particular train model, and you have me, who only wants to know if those bells and whistles come in a different color/sound/shape/etc. What can I say, I am rather simple :)

Ok, it's now 2:30, how quickly do you think I can pick out the outfits for the next 3 days...