Philly Cheesesteak

We did a roadtrip to Philly. The Arts Museum and the Franklin Science museum. Too bad they closed at 5pm. It only gave us an hour to check everything out. Well two, but they shut down the 2nd and 3rd floors at 5:01pm. Guys come in and tell everyone to get out. We felt like cattle.

Here's the ChrisR the Great White Hope. He is for the Borromeo side. Plus ChrisR is half Italian half Stallion. That's what it says on his myspace profile.
I did my part in running up the steps like Rocky Balboa. You know I thought there was more steps. Guess it was because Stallone is so short.


The museum had some animal exhibit going on with big cats from China.
See the sign. Taiga, translation from Chinese = Tiger.



The Franklin Science museum was fun. Teen's sense of smell is super heightend because the pregnancy.

I think Kieran poo-pooed.

There was also this thing that is the OLDEST thing you'll ever touch it was 5.5 billion years old. It was peice of meteor rock that hit the earth 50,000 years ago or 350,000 dog years. Click the link for more photos.

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Spanish tastes

It was me and the original ChrisR off to a tasting of Spanish wines.
It was my first wine tasting and I was nervous that all my taste buds would pick up was pepper and oak.







So I was back in NYC. Where pedestrians have no regard for vehicles (doesn't matter if people are crossing with their kids or not). And vehicles will run you down like a squirrel. So the feelings are mutual.








It was official I had changed my last name to Sukaboy.

Security at NBC didn't even bat an eye.




Sukaboy on the set of SNL. ChrisR gave me a tour of NBC studios in NYC. I also happened to have a brush with a celeb. Pamela Anderson had arrived in the studio at the same time. Flash bulbs were going off like a strobe, or was it the reflection off of her bleach blonde hair.



ChrisR gave this one 99 pts.
It was clear and clean, no aroma and tasted flat.
Maybe because it was water.

We were in a church so maybe he was hoping it would turn into wine.
There was plenty of bread, spanish paella...yummy in my tummy.
It was good to offset all the wine. Plus spitting out the wine helped.
I did it 3-5 times.
That guy behind was passing around the offertory collection.

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Hershey and the Chocolate factory

The land of chocolates and other calorie filled goodies. It took us a few attempts to get out of the island of Sodor in Amish country to get here but we eventually did get here.




There's this ride there that takes you on a historic tour of the Hershey Chocolate factory. It was really cool cuz it was so hot outside and it's air conditioned and we got to sit down as the car we were in showed us how chocolate is made.

And then you get some freebie kissables that Kieran ate and the sugar rush was like hitting a turbo button.



After we got out the kiddies wanted to go back on the ride again. I didn't really get to see it since I was filming it the first time around. So I didn't mind do it again.

This time I was prepared for the cow taking the photo at the end of the ride.




After you get out of the ride, this is where you end up. The candy store. There was lots of products that I've never seen back home.






Like these rainbow twizzlers. It had strawberry, grape, watermelon, lemonade, and blueberry.
It sort of tasted like synthetic flavoured wax, but maybe it was because we just pigged out on some all you can eat ribs at Lone Star.

We really wanted to go to Outback steakhouse, but we got lost again.

Thomas the Tank Engine

We got the blues brothers together for a road trip to the Island of Sodor. Although we got lost a couple of times we got there in perfect timing to board Annie and Clarabelle and ride the rails with Thomas.

Hot day too. I think my lips got sizzled. I'm feeling it today.
There were other train rides there too, but Thomas is the main attraction. Lots of little kiddies going nuts for this tank engine.


You can see their faces are a little flushed from the heat. But that didn't deter them from enjoying the day.
After we got off the train to have some lunch it was 'my Thomas' over and over. And some new words 'two tickets'.

No signs off the main roads to provide some directions to this place. It was no wonder we had difficulty finding this place. This place was literally in the middle of nowhere. Well not really, it was in the middle of Amish farming country in Strasburg Pennsylvania.

I'm sure the Amish community luvs this attraction, right next to the Pennsylvania Railroad history museum. Bringing people with technology into their homes. We saw that they still farmed their land with horses and on a nice day like this they hung ALL of their laundry out to dry - from the house to the barn.

All in all, it was a beautiful day on the island of Sodor.

There's apparently a Thomas the tank engine attraction in St. Thomas, Ontario as well. We'll have to check it out some time.

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It's SukaPapa day!

Chris and I started the day by going out for a run and then did a trip to the Wine Library in Short Hills for some booze. I wished I had brought my camera cuz this place was a huge 2 floors of wine, spirits, liquor and cheese and other goodies for the drinking enthusiast.

Then we went to Jackson for some quick outlet shopping and riding all the toy trucks, buses and helicopters and then finished off at Shop-Rite for some stuff to make dinner fixins'. Kieran was going super freaky cuz he spotted a Thomas the Tank Engine balloon. He can spot a Thomas the Tank Engine needle in a haystack. So we went outside for some talking 1 on 1 time. Then he spotted Cold Stone Ice Creamery. So that didn't help. It went from Thomas to Ice Cream.

So we headed down the walkway so that we wouldn't see the ice cream store but it was too late. It was calling him. So after a few minutes of time out and calming down, and some talking, we headed for Cold Stone. The line was loooong. It was a hot day and all the bigun's were out for their fill of dairy fat.
With Kieran in my arm, I didn't have time to look for a flavour that was hypo-allergenic. They had lemon sherbet, but I just asked when it was my turn what didn't have nuts. And having never been there, they showed me the ropes. Nice folks.When I got to the till, they told me the ice cream was free, because it was Father's day. WOO HOO! what a nice way to end the day. Sharing a setting sun and berry filled ice cream in a sugar cone bowl with my son.

Happy Father's day to all the SukaPapa's out there.

Never leave friends behind

Every morning it's been about making sure that the Thomas, Mavis, Diesel monster and Lady trains that auntie Ninie gave are always together and close at hand. No one gets left behind. Just like in Lost.

I'm glad he doesn't try to go down the stairs on his own juggling all of the toys. I know I'd be doing that. It's how I ended up on my back one New Years eve and a jar of robaxacet.

If I'm down in the basement, I can hear him calling me to help him, waiting for me to come and get him to bring him and his 4 die-cast friends downstairs.

Gardiner & DVP closed

It's been a hard working weekend. We had a garage sale on Saturday and got rid of a lot of junk in our house and garage.

Yea! More room for my stuff!








So papa and mamma took me and my Thomas and train friends out for a ride early on Sunday.

It was supposed to rain but it held off.
If it did rain. There's no way we were heading out.





There were lots of bikes all around. Never seen so many special bikes and people in spandex shorts.


Hmmm..maybe some people shouldn't be wearing spandex.




It was the Becel Ride for Heart and we were doing this ride for our cousin and friend.
That's right! This one was for little Conner and Ron S.

The Gardiner Expwy and DVP were closed just for bikes!
Good thing mamma packed all this food. There was hardly anything at the pitstops except for granny smith apples and water.

Mama made sure to load up the trailer with lots of water at the pit stop. Just so papa wouldn't get thirsty especially going up the hills.

We actually saw a couple of accidents on our ride. Right at the on ramp at Jameson there was a crash. Then as we were riding down the hill to head up the DVP. Tresa saw a kid dislocate his shoulder as he flipped his bike.

Then just before we headed up from the DVP back onto the Gardiner there was another wipe out. But ambulances and EMS folks were there to take them to the hospital with some free becel margarine and bagels.

At least they were wearing their helmets. Although for some folks, not sure if there was a lot of brain to protect.

It was really tiring riding in the trailer. I think papa had a good workout too.

Glad the wind was with us coming back home.

We ended up getting some freebies when we finished the ride. We got a lunch and free cottage cheese, buttered bagels and shortbread cookies - yummy!

Actually we finished the ride twice! Well first time we didn't know where we were going and I led us right through the finish line. Then we asked where do we go to start the ride?

There were TV cameras there so maybe we'll be on local tee-dee news.
It's pouring outside now though. I just finished cutting the lawn and hopefully it washes away some of that poop that some ferrel cat left for me. Damit.