Entries Tagged as 'queens'

NY Mets vs. Arizona Diamondbacks

August 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments

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Citi Field, Flushing, Queens

On Saturday night Tien took Dallas and I to a Mets game in the brand new Citi Field. I’d been to Mets games before, when I lived in NY, but it was at the old Shea Stadium. I wanted to check out the new digs.

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Mets Build-A-Bear :: Citi Field, Flushing, Queens

Everyone got a Mets Build-A-Bear as the free giveaway that night. Dallas gave his to some guy who was looking for an extra. Maybe he had 2 kids or something. Tien and I kept ours.

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Citi Field, Flushing, Queens

The new stadium is nice, but what’s the last thing you’d ever want to see at the ballpark?

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Citi Field, Flushing, Queens

Caloric information on the food? Ding ding ding! Calories shouldn’t count at ball games!

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Citi Field, Flushing, Queens

I guess this is a new NY law or something.

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Citi Field, Flushing, Queens

Zoiks! I am never eating at the ballpark again! Just kidding. Right after taking these photos I got a burger, fries and a beer.

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Citi Field, Flushing, Queens

The weather at the stadium was nice all night and the Mets actually won. Surprising! Angel Pagan hit a tiebreaking grand slam in the eighth inning. Whenever the Mets make a homerun, the homerun apple makes an appearance. You can see it here on the bottom.

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Citi Field, Flushing, Queens

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Cafe Henri

October 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Latte at Cafe Henri
Latte at Cafe Henri, Long Island City, Queens

On Sunday we had brunch at Cafe Henri. This is my bowl mug(?) of latte. We loved all the food. I had Le Croque Madame, an open-faced egg sandwich the ham near the country bread and with the cheese nice and toasted and an egg on the top. On the side was a salad. We liked everything we had so much and wanted to try so many other things on the menu that we joked about coming back for every meal, or at least for brunch the next day too.. but sadly we didn’t. I do think we’ve broken the Tournesol habit though (see here and here).

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Stuck in New York

June 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment

La Guardia Nightmare
La Guardia, New York

Last night everything at La Guardia airport was screwed up and flights were either massively delayed or cancelled all together. It was all were caused by an FAA ‘computer glitch’. To make it worse, my cell phone busted and I couldn’t call anyone. So, I tried to get on wireless with my laptop and it wouldn’t work in my terminal so I had to go out into the food court area outside of my terminal to let everyone know what was going on. Then when I went back to go to my terminal they wouldn’t let me in and said that all Chicago flights were canceled. I met up with Jeff and John, whose flights were also cancelled, and we headed back to the city. Jeff is flying out this morning but John and I just resigned ourselves to staying the weekend. We were both supposed to be flying back to New York on Sunday anyway, no sense going through the hassle of flying back for just one day, especially since Dallas is in Denver on business for 10 days right now anyway.

So, I guess that means I need to go shopping for some clothes today, huh? And a new phone? I just sent out my jeans for laundry service and am going to try to pick up some shirts, so hopefully I’ll be ok for the week. One thing I kind of do regret missing is that volunteer day I was going to participate in. I don’t know if I would have been too tired anyway, but it’s such a good thing in Chicago. If you’d like to make a contribution to the cause, go here. Thanks to Crissy & my brother, who each donated money.

I also missed Allison’s going away party. Good luck in San Fran, Tebs!

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