Tati swim

Tatiana had another swim meet, she got a silver in crawl 

and a bronze in back stroke

                                          Yes I learned how to turn a photograph into a cube

Here I learned how to turn a page :)

Hurrah! Tati!! xoxo

Easter walk

 Every year Tatiana's school does an 8k walk have lunch then walk back. Every year I try to avoid it but every year I end up doing it.

Saint Emilion

 off we go 

 Troplong Mondot plows the old fashion way 

 plowing the vines 

 Tatiana's class 

 still not there yet 

 finally arrived the field was full of wild flowers

 boys having fun 

 lunch time, we were all starving 

 Tatiana and Pauline 

 now time to go back

almost there

Wine tasting

 One of Michaels clients invited us to a private wine tasting. He picked some of his best bottles from his wine cellar in New York flew here on his private jet, and set up a tasting at the Regent in Bordeaux. He invited Michel Rolland a world famous oenologist and wine consultant. To have him at our table during en primeur week 

is unheard of but there he was! 

*En primeur week is wine tasting for the new vintage (2011) 

the wines we sampled

Michael being all professional ")

we mingled tasted and spit 

dont ask me how I scored I just wrote, like, dont like :)

Michel in grey suit and glasses

such a shame to have to spit out such excellent wine! If I didnt I would be really drunk

Here is Michel showing me pictures of his cute grand kids. I had him and
 his top wine taster all to myself at our little table.
If you look out the window you can see the view of the opera house 

 after we scored the wines we were taken to the other room to see what wines they were

 Michel results, I wanted to see if I scored the wines that same as he did, we had the same top 2! 

 the wine for dinner was a Lafite Rothschild 1986 Parker scored it a 10

 for dessert a 1945 port 

 fois gras 

 a small seafood salad 

 all courses came covered 

 this tiny piece of cod was our dinner 

the cheese 

a lemon biscuit for my Port

 I am the only lady there, how lucky am I!!

the hotel sommelier, who need him when we have Michel  

 Michael almost killed me for taking a blurry picture!! 

It was an incredible evening at the Regent hotel in Bordeaux. 
Michel was the nicest guy considering how famous he is. 

I love New York!!

  We had a lay-over in NYC, I havent been in years, last time I was there they used billboards..not anymore!! It was a bit like Vegas with lights everywhere. 

We stayed down the street from Times Square which was the perfect spot. 

our hotel 

 view from our hotel

 crazy times square 

the central library

inside all the marble was beautiful 

 this was the most beautiful library I have ever seen 

                  

look at that ceiling! 

            

wish I had the time to wander through all the halls 

              

                  

                                                 

They were charging us quite a bit of money to have our boarding passes printed at the hotel. Here we got them printed here for FREE~ 

 famous NY pizza

 TAXI! 

 Central station, probably one of the most beautiful stations I have ever been to, it was clean and organized. I have seen it in the movies lots of time but you dont feel the grandeur like when you are there 

This is where you buy your tickets

 didnt realize there were so many restaurants at the station

the beautiful Chrysler building, amazing Art Deco

 

 Melisa's 

Melisa makes these tiny cupcakes for a $1.00, bit pricey but very tasty 

Tatiana loved the NY hot dogs  

 a ferris wheel in toys R us

 a very ingenious car park 

 an M&M store 

 so many choices

 store was packed

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this was an incredible Thai restaurant called "Qi" we couldn't resist 

 it was very yummy!

 is this what people do on dates now?

 had to try a NY cheesecake

Went to the Brooklyn Tabernacle service. The choir was amazing . Tatiana went into the childrens rooms and loved it, she said she felt very connected with God. Jim's sermon totally moved and convicted us. If you are ever in NYC I highly recommend it.

this is Carol Cymbala who started the church with her husband. It was only 12 people in the beginning. She just came out with a new book "He's been faithful" which I had autographed

Ground Zero ~this place really tugged at my heart

this was the spot where one of the buildings was, it is now a memorial fountain

   the names of all the victims were engraved along the fountain 

  

A chief helmet  

 NY has the best supermarkets!

  

 The Empire State building, there was an hour wait, and cost $150.00 for 

the 3 of us to go to the top. Maybe next time 

 

 Shake Shack the most popular place at the moment, with a line waiting to get in at all times. We finally walked by when the line wasnt so bad and decided to try it. 

They serve Angus beef burgers, which were tasty but no match to In N Out

Central Park, again you see it in movies all the time but don't get the feeling 

of just how big it is and how beautiful it is 

 owned by Trump, we decided to give it a try even though it was a bit 

of a rip off ($15.00) per person 

 

We were sad to say good-bye but we hope to be back again