A Pretty Great Day

Both Josh and Olin were supposed to have yesterday, Election Day, off, but because Olin's school was closed for all of  last week, the school decided to hold class after all.  Which meant that Josh and I had the day to ourselves! 

We began the day at our local polling site after we dropped Olin off at school hoping that the lines had died down from the early morning rush with no such luck.  However, after standing in that very long line for about 15 minutes (in the freezing cold), one of the volunteers came outside and announced three districts that could bypass the line and come directly in to vote.  And wouldn't you know it, one of the three districts was ours!  So what would have been no less than a 2 hour ordeal, took us only about 20 minutes. 

With all this new found time, we hopped on the subway and made our way to the West Village where we had the most relaxing lunch at the always lovely Cafe Cluny and then found the sunniest table at Cafe Angelique for dessert and coffee.  We capped off our afternoon with a hand in hand stroll down Bleeker Street shopping at all those little stores that are not always welcoming when you appear with a toddler and a stroller in their teeny tiny, serene shops. 

Although we love our little one so much, it's nice to have a little mommy and daddy time once in a while.  Thanks Joshua, I had a wonderful time!

                                    Josh wanted me to post this picture because we found it so funny - one of the stores put a slice of lemon in the doggy water dish outside their door. Ah, the Village.

And because a post would not be complete without mention and pictures of Olin...  We had arranged with Olin's teachers to arrive back at the school 30 minutes before the end of the day yesterday with muffins for a belated birthday celebration which included birthday songs and the passing around of some of Olin's baby photos. We had intended to celebrate his birthday at school last Monday, but Sandy had other plans for us.  It worked out better this way anyway because it mean that Josh could be there as well and I think Olin loved having both mommy and daddy in school with him. 

And in other Olin news, they have been learning about the President in school and for the past few days, every time he sees the President on TV he points and says "Obama".  He doesn't say words  like "cat" or "red", but he knows "Obama".