I'm not sure how these events got lumped together but one must
have naturally led to the other because it seems like they were linked
together on the camera.
The scavenger hunt
John
was there and Jon
seem to have gathered the traffic cone that ended up on
our front porch. John and Joyce
headed off as Lily
relieved herself. Their team
seemed to know how to go in
and through
the woods
while posing for many pictures until they got to Piya's house
but a trip through the brush
left them at this laundromat
while the other team used the bench
and then found its way up to the ledge
and beyond up the wall
before starting back
down
form the ledge
to the ground
for another photo op
before the journey home
where Andy and Sarah seem to have switched clothes
or something like that.
The puzzles
The rest of us were putting our time to a different kind
of productive use. The candy bar puzzle
got completed as did the abstract art puzzle
but we didn't make enough progress on the Cracker Jack puzzle
when we decided to undertake our mission in New York.
A day in the city
We parked the car
and bought a ticket for the parking space
but did NOT photograph the person who sold us the train tickets.
This poster
appealed to Benjamin
as Sarah talked on her cell phone
which was to be a bit of a recurring theme.
On the ride north, I recorded Elizabeth
while Benjamin recorded me,
then Sarah,
then me
again. Next we missed
and then only slightly connected
on pictures of the people int he opposite seat --
he with the resume with his head shot on the other side
and the growing candelabra rental business. All of this
got us to the subway station
to head south to Washington Square Park
where Ben and Sarah
watched the baseball game
and we then studied the signs
to Benjamin's amusement
before walking further, taking this bad picture
and then this picture
for what will ultimately become yet another connection.
We recorded McDonald's
and the obligatory phone booth
in Chinatown before having this wonderful
Dim Sum,
though I can't remember the names of the dishes
our new friend
brought before taking this picture of us
and sending us on our way. At the next
obligatory phone booth photo,
Sarah
and then both of us
obliged with phone photos. Next we went to Ferrara's where
Sarah had this dish
and Benjamin
had this cone. Back on the train, this gentleman
offered advice as well as a restaurant guide and
we promised to send him his picture even though he had
never heard of the Museum of Radio and Television
to which we went next even though the whole place
is trademarked and no photos can be taken inside.
After 2 hours of television, we were ready for a walk back
to the train. Sarah stopped to buy Olive Butter from this
person
who then agreed to do a makeover. This is the before picture
and the initial action
as Benjamin watched
and the work progressed
to this intermediate result
and the final eye touches
that led to this after
picture. Quite a difference.
On the final part of our path, we met a man
who told us the world was ended
and another who seemed to have a Christ complex
before getting to our train
where Benjamin could model his new hat
in rapper mode.
This was a trip with a mission. We got 2 of them
but the photographs
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come far from representing reality. It's time for a
visit to the optics people to understand how to get the
lighting right, not an easy task with the geometry of
the paperweights being what it is and all.
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