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The Epic Birthday Park Tour

Dear reader, Because of scheduling problems around Catering's computer, this blog post will be a SmallPaw/BabyPaw joint venture. Please bear with my little brother while he tries to contain his excitement... HI GUYS!!! I'm so happy SmallPaw and I finally get to do a post

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Step Into Powder

Hi guys! So Mami and Papi took us to the mountains of Colorado to go skiing with uncle Sam and aunt Micha. Well, I say skiing but I wasn't allowed to go yet and Mami and Papi used this thing called a snowboard instead so I guess technically

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Los Angeles for Beginners

Oh LA, you're such a tease. Beautiful, sunny days and cool, starry evenings to lure you in. But then you sit in traffic for an hour to get some lunch and the allure is gone (thank god). But yes, it was lovely. We saw four different museums (La

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8 Years and Counting

We've turned into such sloths that we even missed our travel anniversary! Oh my... But Maui will make you forget many things. I mean there are itty bitty dragons around: And beaches galore: And this is Hawaii so of course there are more volcanos. So yeah, 8 years

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Slowly, and Happily, Turning Into Sloths

You guys! These islands are amazing... Everything is just so beautiful and the people are real friendly. And the beaches, wow, don't even get me started on the beaches. I know Mami and Papi haven't posted much here and they feel really bad about that but

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Aloha Indeed

We hoped Hawaii would be beautiful. Not just for the obvious reasons but because we'd been talking about it so much and hyping it up for the kids that we would have been in serious trouble if the islands didn't deliver. Thankfully we needn't

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New Year, New Me

Dear reader, A very happy 2015 from my heart to yours. I hope you had a splendid last evening of 2014 with lots of good food, drink and fireworks. Sadly, I got to experience none of those joys since the authorities stuck me into bed at 9:30pm. (So what

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Correction

Ahem, I hear that someone has been bad-mouthing me on my own blog. And while I don't want to name names, your cuddling privileges have been revoked for the next hour Catering. Hmph. Now, with that out of the way: happy Christmas everyone! I hope the man in

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Pink Flamingos on the Tree

Somebody cough Small Paw cough has been neglecting their duties as official blogger for this family so it’s time the authorities stepped in and did something about that. I do apologize for the lack of posting but it’s true that Small Paw has been quite busy what with

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A Little Holiday Cheer

It's not even Thanksgiving yet but the holiday season is in full swing here in New York with Christmas songs playing in the shops, red/green themed cookies on sale at the drug store and decorations going up faster than you can say 'ho ho ho'

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Some Snapshots From My Week

Hello dear reader, I'm sure you are anxious to hear how I fare and I am only to happy to report that things are excellent here in NYC. There are so many playgrounds in this city that I'm quite sure that even me, with a diligent

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Like a Postcard

Dear reader, The authorities planned a weekend in the countryside for me, what a nice surprise! We went to visit a high school friend of Catering's who lives in a very nice house with a wonderfully fluffy dog and her two kids and a husband. I want a

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Not a Bad Town at All

Dear reader, So, NEW YORK! The Big Apple! (I actually don't understand why they call it that. The apples in Japan where far bigger than those sold here. Another one of those non-sensical adult things, like nap time.) But ignoring the strange nickname, here are some of the

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The President Messes With Our Day Again

We planned to visit Governor's Island today. It's a small island off the southern tip of Manhattan. One can rent bikes and explore gardens and forts. But as we arrived at the South Ferry terminal there was police everywhere. We had our bag sniffed by a

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Leaving

Of course we knew this day would come but we didn't think it'd be this hard to leave. There's so much we still wanted to see and we only finished about half of our to-do list. (Not for lack of trying...) Christmas is very

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A Very Merry Thanksgiving

Even though our visa doesn't allow us to stay on until Christmas, we got to enjoy the next best thing here: Thanksgiving. Sally and Racey invited us to their lovely home in Connecticut together with 20 other lucky ducks (mostly family) to eat turkey, pies and more side

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We Will Miss This Town

Endspurt is German for 'final spurt' as in "We're almost entering our Endspurt in New York City". A very sad thought but looking at the pictures and thinking about all the lovely people we saw and the wonderful food we ate and the marathon-theater-going

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Is That a Cupcake or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

The rage in New York is currently the cupcake. The trend is huge heaps of frosting in bright colors and packaging with more material than you could possibly recycle in a week. We have visited the numerous cupcake hangouts and distilled the best places for a New York tourist to

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The Marathon

Today was the New York Marathon, the 42km race that runs through all five boroughs, closes some major New York streets and brings about $350 million in "economic activity". That's a lot of activity... There were some pretty crazy characters running the race from a bride

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Fall Lasted a Week

A week ago the weather was 24° C and walking about the city in a T-shirt for October was a strange yet pleasant event. We embraced it, by taking the opportunity to visit The Brooklyn Botanical garden, it's free on Tuesdays. This week the weather cooled and the

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The Week in Review

Fall has very much moved in. The trees are doing their best Indian summer work, our heating is running full time and pumpkins are on every corner.

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Snapshots

One of the many tributes to Steve Jobs sprinkled around the city. These optical illusions are on a fence in Soho. (Thanks for the tip Gordo!)

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Autumn in New York

Actually the title of this post should probably be Summer in New York instead because it was absolutely gorgeous outside today. Sunshine, blue skies, temperatures in the high 70s (around 27C)... Definitely not what we expected here in October. We went to Central Park with Mauricio and Andrea for a

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Something Strange is Afoot at Chelsea Market...

It was a clever enough idea: have a bunch of mildly attractive 20-30 somethings walk around with a box of your product, pretending that they just bought it. Hopefully make a bunch of other 20-30 somethings insanely jealous so they'll go out and buy the same product. In

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Last Sunday

Fernando and family came for a visit over the weekend and those few hours that we didn't spend eating or drinking, we whiled away at FAO Schwartz. For the kids, of course. Since it was Sunday, they had a few extra demonstrations of games and toys going on