A DAY ON LONG ISLAND

Eunice and I spent a wonderful day on Long Island, New Yolk.  It's a pretty big place consisting of two counties; Nassau and Suffolk.  We were in the Southern part of Nassau .  Having visited the Phileggdelphia Pretzel Factory in Regging, we found one in Bellmore.

Joe, the owner, gave each of us a bite sized pretzel. He apparently works out and wanted to show off on his ability to life weights.  Hey, we're no spring chickens!

On to Rockville Centre to visit Center for Science Teaching and Learning. It's a science and nature center. Although the preserve has nature trails and other stuff, we were only interested in seeing the animals.  They had a replica of some dinosaur and we were told that it was our ancestor....right!

We decided to have  conversations with the animals to find out if they heard the same thing. Our first one was with an owl.

We then asked a pigeon who thought we were odd.  I don't know why.

Birds of a feather, flock together.  That's what we say.  How about the pheasant?

Eunice had to convince me to talk to a hawk.

Eunice thought it was hysterical when I talked with a goat because it wasn't a feather animal.  She laughed so hard that one of the humans had to hold her.

We had a few other conversations with them and they were quite friendly.

Time to go to lunch.  We found this nice place called Press195.  Chris, one of the owners, was real nice. 

Our last stop was to a place called Chocolate Works.  We were hoping to play a trick on a human and suddenly cluck at them when they were looking at one of the shelves. 

Just the thought gave us a tickle.  We had a great day!!!

FROM DOWNTON ABBEY TO MR. SELFRIDGE

It was such a hoot visiting Winterthur to see the costumes from Downton Abbey.  The season ended and now Esther and I are watching Mr. Selfridge.  We saw this last episode where Mr. Neuhaus stopped in to demonstrate his chocolates.  Turns out that it is true.  At least that there is a Belgian chocolate company called Neuhaus and were around even before 1900.

We went into Henhattan, here in New Yolk,  to one of the major stores located on Madison Avenue and brought home lots of it.  Wow, it was absolutely delicious.

FAIRYTALE COOKIES?

Eunice and I received a box of Fairytale Cookies. Not the brownies, but cookies. We thought that there might have been a mistake as we were used to those absolutely fudge-y brownies. We checked them out while going onto the website of Fairytale Brownies and saw that it was true. Now we just have to get someone to rip the cellophane off the cookie so we can eat it!