The Chinese tourists are like cockroaches.  THEY ARE EVERYWHERE!!!  

fountain trevi

the forum
the theater











"SH*T....THIS IS SIIIICCCKKKK"

those were the first words that came out of my mouth when i saw the roman colosseum with my own two eyes.  

"ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED????"

was probably the next phrase i muttered....

"you're so american....and so asian.  and nothing in between."

i just wanted to see gladiator.  and then i wanted to see mission impossible (vatican city).




the hudson valley is beautiful.  you follow the hudson river upstate and it's lush green farmland everywhere with trump banners lining their driveways.  we woke up early for breakfast and then headed to bish bash falls..."you have to go....it's magical"
what nancy didn't mention was that its freezing.  cold running stream, waterfall water...feels colder than what the actual temp is.  it was probably the first time i felt my entire body somewhat shutdown where i was afraid to swim to the middle of the fall...i just did it for the instagram anyway...






i got a kale salad...




these are the type of towns where girls shriek..."this town is so cute!!!"

yoonmi and michael bought a farm house in the hudson valley.  and that's where they decided to have their wedding.  they had the summer to set up their north mountain house instagram account to post photos of DIY flooring and fencing and manhattanite relapsing to the outdoors activities...before outsourcing the big wedding items to professional catering services and amazon.com for the rest....it turned out beautiful.  sunny and clear skies during the day.   4 degrees celsius at night.  the bonfire just wasn't enough....











it seemed that my entire instagram network was visiting a farm today.  pumpkins, apple picking, hay rides, petting zoos, donuts, apple cider....farms are a place parents bring their kids.  we went as adults...






we went to newark for Portuguese food.  mikey's been talking about it forever.  so we brought dre.  the crab dip was supposed to change my life...but i pretty much didn't like any of it.   but there were two key moments.  1. the bathroom is soundproofed from the rest of restaurant blasting 80s jams.  a timewarp or the twilight zone.  and 2.  "how are you getting there?....oh i can't make it"



some neighborhood egg tarts amidst some parade...