On the weekend we changed our clocks for daylight saving and the weather seems to have changed with it! Last night we were able to finish work earlier than usual and we came home and took Dasha to the dog run in Washington Sq park and it was still light, and even warm! Not quite thongs and t-shirt but close! The city feels like it has come to life again, there are daffodils sprouting in the park and all the cafe's have tables on the sidewalk and last night the whole population was out enjoying it. It was a great feeling now that its time to pack up the puffer coat and snow shoes and we are really looking forward to another summer in the city.
Another reason for this blog is to share a fun week we had last week. We headed to Madison Sq Garden twice in 3 days. "The Garden" is only 2 stations for us on the subway and we have seen all sorts of different sports and concerts there including, the Rangers ice hockey, the Knicks basketball and Bon Jovi. We are going in a few weeks to see a Cirque du Solei Michael Jackson Spectacular which should be fun too.
But back to last week, on the Saturday we saw world class gymnastics at the America Cup. I had seen it advertised on tv only a few days earlier and thought how we don't have the chance to see this level of competition back home. Lucky I have an open minded boyfriend who would come along, even though we had to negotiate how long we would stay :) In an Olympic year, what an awesome opportunity to see the reigning women's world champion (Jordyn Wieber who won and outclassed all but the other American) along with an Aussie (ok, I'd never heard of her...) who did her best but after coming off the beam, came 7th out of 8.
The men's comp was also exciting, there was a really animated coach who after each apparatus danced for the crowd and we couldn't work out why because his guy (an American) was pretty middle of the group throughout. On the final apparatus he did an unbelievably dynamic high bar and ended up winning the whole thing!
We backed this up on Monday night and headed back to a tennis night where Maria Sharapova played Caroline Wozniaki and Roger Federer played Andy Roddick. Never quite the same atmosphere or pressure of a Grand Slam but they certainly put on a show and competed hard for the win. (Sharapova and Roddick won). Check this out to see the atmosphere at the Garden
Just another week in NYC.....
