Goings On In Our New NYC Office

The blog has been quiet lately, because we’ve mostly been in the office and off the streets. But, that’s not to say we haven’t had some fun in the six weeks since we’ve arrived in New York. Here are the highlights.

We made our first major purchase as a married couple (not counting all the plane tickets we’ve bought so far). Who knew couch shopping could be so stressful fun?

Grocery shopping has been a bit challenging.

No, it’s not that we have to carry our bags, it’s that prices are absurd. Some NY grocery stores are beautiful and gourmet with aisles and aisles of chocolate and other delicious foods. Then on the other hand, there are itty bitty grocery stores that don’t have much to choose from and what they do have is not so quality. Whichever category of store you choose, the prices are at least 30% more than Denver prices — maybe even twice as much as what we’re used to.

But oh well. We heart NYC, and think its kind of cute that the diapers are right next to the sodas.

We made a new friend, thanks to Facebook.

Remember that video of me in Singapore where I was eating creamed corn on dessert? (Click here for a reminder). Well, not long ago I received a message on Facebook from a woman named Kirsty who said she didn’t know me, but Facebook recommended me as a friend. She had no idea why that would be, but she did recognize me from that silly corn-eating video.

You can read more about the incident over at her blog, Nerdy Nomad.

Anyway, we were lucky enough to have lunch with Kirsty (even though we still have no idea why Facebook wants us to be friends), because she is spending some time in New York too. What a treat to meet someone who travels and works like we do, and someone who hearts New York like we do too.

Jason took us on our very own walking tour of Soho.

We took a gander at several of the caste iron buildings in the area and enjoyed all the people watching and window shopping too. Who said you can’t live in a place and be tourists at the same time?

And then, of course, we are lucky enough to be around a lot of great friends. Here we are after an awesome pizza dinner with Alli and Larissa. Look at all those drinks! We must’ve been thirsty.