Wallamble

(Brooklyn Mini-break Day 1 continues)
In the afternoon we walked around Williamsburg a little more…

including the southern the Orthodox Hasidic part where we picked up some AMAZING chocolate babka…

Then we had some down time in our hotel 🙂

We HAD planned on having dinner in Park Slope but this was hijacked by the free wings & fries in the lounge at the hotel…

After which we didn’t need dinner, so it was a walk through Park Slope, Carroll Gardens…

We weren’t to full to get to dessert at the Farmacy Soda & Sundae Shop though.
(the kids walked miles & miles today without complaining – so we definitely had earnt a HUGE dessert 🙂  )

It was a great way to finish a day 🙂

Every November, the kids have two days off while the teachers have their NJ Education Conference. So we thought we’d take the days off too and head to … Brooklyn.

Yes Brooklyn is only a short drive away but with busy weekends these days it is hard to squeeze in our day trips any more – which is both a 🙂 and a 😦

The family became communters and took mum’s jitney (athough we took one in the 8’s not the 7’s o’clock).

We took the 8:45am jitney to the 9.03am train…

Then the subway across to Williamsburg – all in under an hour!

Our first stop was for a munchkins for E+L (for a fun start to the day and a few extra in case we needed to drip feed during the tour). With our tour starting outside Dunkin’ Donuts (and like usual we were there early) it was hard to resist the pleading looks to go in 🙂

From 10am until noon we did a fabulous Graffiti Walking tour of Williamsburg. It was amazing! The guy that took us around explained all of the different mediums, layering techniques, the history and all about the artists – we really learnt a lot!

We had lunch in Williamsburg at Allswell. (This is a chic burger place by the same guy as Spotted Pig)

Actually it was a little more sedate than usual – as the activities were spread across two days.
It did mean we probably got to eat a whole lot more candy though!

The highlights from the day were probably….
(note it is really really hard to concentrate on anything on Halloween – when all you want is to go trick-or-treating!)

making ghosts for the tree out the front…

pizza with friends…

and then trick-or-treating…

What a great day 🙂
I think our Harry Potter and Creepy doll had an awesome couple of days 🙂

Halloween falls on a Saturday this year…so we get to celebrate it at school and in town on the Friday, and then trick-or-treat on the Saturday. It is awesome!

First there was the school parade….

Then the parties in our class rooms…

Then what to do?

Home time or down town where they block off the streets…I think you know which one E+L picked

Then home to recover via a little roll down the hill to wear off some sugar!

and the best part is – we get to do it all over again tomorrow!

The morning started with our first fire of the season…
(I’m sure there will be may more)

Wallaby Jerseys – check.
Sausage rolls – check.
Aussie beer – check. (Thanks Pat!)
Boxing Kangaroo flying proudly out front – check.
Kids ready to watch the game – kind-of check.

And the boys played well and did Australia proud. Good job gents!

Lachie started break dancing classes this fall and so we thought it would be fun to see how the professionals do it. So we headed into the international break dancin’ convention at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem.

We knew that it was going to be a good show , when we saw the ushers break dancing in the aisles before the show even started.

If the ushers were awesome dancers – how good were the people in the show going to be!!!

We had a great time and all learnt some new moves (not just Lachie!)

It was made even more fun that our friends came along (thanks MAA+K!). Friends even make the subway / train home fun!