Here are two more pictures from the Pip’s birthday.

I like this one because it looks like Piper Jane is giving Jake a good swift punch to the nose.

and I like this one because it’s kind of a good shot of her birthday dress. You know, the dress that was way too big, Booo! I guess she is still wearing 6-12 months.

On Saturday Jake and I woke up at 4:30 to take the subway to Brooklyn to run 13.1 miles. How crazy does that sentence sound? It was a rough start (the waking up, the long train ride, starting out the race) but once I got warmed up around mile 5, I had a great race. The very best part of the Brooklyn Half Marathon, is that it ends in Coney Island. I love Coney Island so much, it is one of my favorite places in NYC. If you’re going to knock in front of me, then you should be prepared for me to defend it to death.

It wasnt my best half marathon time, but I was happy with it since I haven’t run over 7 miles in several months. I finished under 1hr and 50 min. I can’t wait to train better and run some more half mar’s this year. Oh yeah, and now I’m feeling much better about the start of our NYC marathon training that will start in June!

So anyway, about the picture….so I’m stretching Jake out after the race and he’s all “I want to take a picture of you”. So he did, and now I see why he wanted to. What a cool view to have during some stretches, eh? Isn’t Coney Island cool? There are weird things like this everywhere. <-Jake knows what this thing is. I don’t.

Poor Jody took a 1 hr 45 min train to come hang out after the race. I felt bad for her since we didn’t do much there, but she is a good sport. We rode the wonder wheel, got some breakfast and wandered around a little before coming home. She went to the met and Jake and I went home to shower and nap off our 4am wake up. I am excited to go to Coney a few times this summer when I’m not sweaty and tired. Now I’ll let you in on a fun fact, in my 5 half marathons, this could very well be my favorite so far. I’ll think about it for a day or two and let you know what I decide.

This next picture isn’t weekendly, but I have to include it anyway. So get over it. After eating dinner and watching Reservoir Dogs on Wenesday night, Jake got an email that a new Banksy had shown up in Harlem. It was 11:30 pm but we ran to the train anyway. These kids don’t last long with all the tagging wars going on throughout the city, so that explains our mad dash. Jake has seen almost everything Banksy has done since he has been in town, but I’ve never seen one in person. I got so excited when we rounded the corner and saw this:

There is still question if this one is an authentic Banksy. I like to think it is since I got to see it, but I have to admit, I’m not 100% sold that it is his. Those yellow post-its near me are pleas to not tag over this. They say things like “cultural significance, do not deface”. I later told Jake that this one is better protected because of all the crackies and prosties sharing the block. (seriously, I know some parts of Harlem are beautiful and nice, but those parts are not here. And I was a little scared. And I saw more than one crack deal go down just in the 5 minutes we were there. Not kidding.)

Banksy is by far my favorite street artist. I love them visually, I love the messages, I love his anonymity and I am just so fascinated by him. If you aren’t familiar with him, you should read about him or see his new film “Exit through the gift shop”. It was rad.

bye!

ps sarah is back!