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Bari — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:45:56 +0000

We took a ride up to Montreal this weekend to visit my sister-in-law Theresa and her family. As always, we had an awesome time just hanging out, laughing, eating good food and staying up too late. It was especially fun since it was the first time the kids were old enough to acknowledge each other. I can honestly say I do not know which one of the two were more excited to see the other in the morning.

Our weekend was filled with screams of “ASH-AY!” from my niece Liliane who turns 3 in October. Lucky for her they are coming to see us next month…Or should I say lucky for Theresa and her husband Stephane. Asher had a blast playing with her toys and flashing his cheesy new grin at her.

There is a wading pool a short walk from their apartment so we headed over for a dip. Unfortunately I imagined a much smaller pool that Asher could sort of crawl in and out of and neither Matthew or I were prepared for the soaking that ensued. Matthew especially wasn’t prepared to fall while stepping into it, and I sadly wasn’t prepared with my video camera in hand.

Much time was spent in PJs and it took a bit of juggling to manage 2 nap and sleep schedules (a nice lesson for all)

On the last day I tried to get a great picture to cherish for years to come. Instead I got these:

and my fave:

not so hidden

Bari — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 03:21:27 +0000

In November ‘07 we went to Paris for Thanksgiving week and it was awesome. The first night we were there we had reservations at this place Hidden Kitchen, which was basically an underground restaurant it this couple’s house. I had read about it on a food blog and I’m a little crazy so we got ourselves on the list. After a late landing in the morning, practically missing our walking tour and a SIM card that wouldn’t work we had a shitty but exciting day. There was a metro strike and it took us 90 minutes to get there, eventually on foot. It was a weird night but really fun. We had an amazing time and stayed until the wee hours all jetlagged and silly.

I dug up this old pic of the menu:

I have thought about those 2 crazy kids over the past few years but without another trip to paris planned, didn’t bother investigating what they were up to.

To my surprise they were featured as a sneak peak on Design Sponge today. Needless to say this is a NEW place since we’ve been. They weren’t exactly “consultants for restaurants and food retail companies” back then but they were warm and sweet and had a great playlist on all night and a very friendly pup. It makes me so happy to see them succeed. Definitely, definitely try and go if you can while you are there. Our dinner was one of the highlights of our trip.

swingtown

Bari — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:43:23 +0000

The swinging is pretty great here in Florida

a quick dip

Bari — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:39:49 +0000

cerveceria catalana

Bari — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:57:37 +0000

barcelona day 4

Bari — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:13:16 +0000

a view from my room

my desk

my taxi

barcelona day 3

Bari — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:32:40 +0000

Its fuckin snowing here.

barcelona day 2

Bari — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:13:19 +0000

This morning I learned you should not plug your $200 hair iron in while you are still half asleep. Fried. My hair will look scary all week. It’ll have to do!

This afternoon I learned they don’t have american sized 3 hole punch paper here and that I should have shipped 2 cases. Oops. The PA is manually punching ream after ream of A4. It’ll have to do :\

This evening I learned not to stay out an extra hour after working a 15hr day. Tired. Only getting 4 hrs sleep tonight. It’ll have to do?

barcelona so far

Bari — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:31:01 +0000

Its nice and cool here but not too cold and there are palm trees.

The coffee is good.

Everything smells like the ocean.

I missed posting yesterday which is too bad but know what else I missed? Sleeping. I have been up for 25 hours. Booooooooo!

today tomorrow

Bari — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:24:18 +0000

Today in Las Vegas:

Coffee with fruit and croissant

Meetings with producer of my next show

Client call

Another meeting

Coffee

Change from jeans into work clothes

Show prep

Update paperwork

Lunch

Emails

Phone calls

Closing General Session

Pack production office

Goodbyes

Dinner

Check out

Taxi

Airport

Delayed

Tomorrow in Brooklyn:

Airport

Taxi

Home

Smiles

Breakfast

Bye Matthew

Baby food swap

See friends

Lunch

Walk

Play

Snuggle

Bottle

Crib

Dinner

Relax

Pass out.