All white people look the same...

Last weekend we finally made it out to the 798 Art District. This area is a former military industrial complex that has been converted to an art district with many galleries and restaurants and shops. It is a bit farther out of town; no subways go there so it was an adventure to find the right bus to take. Even since four years ago when Chris was here, he said the area has matured so much and there are so many more shops and people. We also happened to be there during an annual festival, so I am wondering if maybe the extra people had something to do with that.

We got there sort of late in the day on Saturday and went to only a few galleries before having dinner at an AMERICAN restaurant(!). It was amazing to eat a sandwich. I never thought I would have been so excited for a sandwich. It was my first sandwich since getting here and it did not disappoint. The sandwich didn't last long on my plate so I was not able to think about taking a picture until it was too late =)

We had to head back after only a few hours there since it was getting dark. The area doesn't really have a nightlife scene per se. We plan to go back soon, though, before it gets too cold to walk around.

I did take a few pictures of the art district -- the most interesting ones being of the graffiti...
















Here are a couple more of nothing in particular in the district









Here is a giant head with me picking the giant nose



Here is a really cool tunnel made out of folding chairs (it's a little dark to see)






I have a funny story about my English class. Last week we had a class topic on Famous Places. I had them prepare for class by thinking about if they could go anywhere in the world, where would they go and why? I had some interesting responses. The most interesting were all somewhat related:

"I want to go to Miami to see James." (this means Lebron James)

"I want to go to Los Angeles to see Kobe Bryant."

"I want to go to Houston to see rockets."
This one I thought maybe the kid was into NASA or something so I asked him to explain. He said, "No, to watch the Houston Rockets play basketball." I didn't have the heart say, "Are you kidding me? Anywhere in the WORLD and you want to go to TEXAS??????" At least there are other things to see in LA and Miami that I could sort of justify wanting to go to those cities. But really, Houston?


One more funny incident is easily explained through pictures. We did some bootleg DVD shopping and found a nice box set of every episode of Seinfeld. Chris has a bunch of the discs already but not the whole set with him and we have been in such a Seinfeld kick lately that I wanted to just go for it and buy all of them since they would be so cheap. There is something about watching Seinfeld here... I miss NYC so much, and even though it's filmed on a soundstage in LA, there is something about their accents that reminds me of NYC, and even of my aunts! =) Just the senses of humor and the dialect. I think the fact that Larry David is a NYer just makes the show so much about NY.

Anyway, most of the discs look perfectly normal, with the original cast on the front of the DVD. A few of them looked a bit off...


Is that Al Bundy?



Cast of Frasier!



Maybe it's hard to tell us white people apart ;)





Here is one more picture, this one is for Lana =) I could see you spearheading a movement like this...





That's all to report for now. I will add more soon!