Thursday, July 27, 2006

The Bleeker Street Meander

We made a trip to NY recently to catch a cruise to Canada and took a day out to patrol the streets of Greenwich Village!

Rachael and Steph begin the job of searching out the styles at a festival/fair on Bleeker St. Not too many deals and it seemed everybody had these little wooden frogs that you could clonk on and they made a frog noise......whoo hoo!

Wanting something special, Steph quickly finds a tattoo artist and finds the design she wants.....pretty proud of herself too!

The FAMOUS Matt Umanov Guitar Shop drew Michael and I quicker than Brian Setzer can say Stray Cat Strut!

Mostly girlie stuff at this "bizarre", we left the girls to tinker with the trinkets! However, MJ and RJ, upon spying some very cheap designer duds, quickly found out that they were designed by Malph Lauren, the bastard stepbrother of the not-so-famous Happy Days character.




Rachael pointing
out the secret
tattoo that
Carolyn will
most likely pick for herself.....just watch!
Oops! The old Florida Gator on the ankle trick.

We've now been to the village a number of times and the kids are recognizing landmarks and streets so we're now just waiting on the Mother Cabrini Festival!!


Michael trying to not let anyone see him duck into this store and pick up some "accessories!"

Having left her prized IPOD back in Florida (Oh! The HORROR!!!), Rachael sought out a place she could pick up some entertaining reading material.

This was what her scavenger hunt turned up!

Ginsburg, Mencken, and Marx did nothing to impress her tho.
And now a little Jethro Tull?

After a long day with our bags still at the hotel, we soon headed back uptown on the subway to get to the Cruise Ship to Nova Scotia!!!!!! Pics to be published soon!