Valentine's Day hike

For Christmas Casey & Duncan asked Santa (also known as both sets of parents) for winter hiking gear- stabilicers, poles, and leg gaiters to keep out the snow. On Valentine's day they joined a local chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club on a hike in the southern part of Harriman State Park. Conveniently it snowed just a few days before the hike and made for gorgeous scenery. It was such a nice day!

Winter hike on Long Island

A fun hike and nice day in February with Susie and Denis.

Broadway Girls Night Out

Casey, Alison, Nisha, Melissa, and Leah went to see the play "A View From the Bridge." It was excellent and intense. Afterwards they got a drink at the Algonquin hotel. A great girls night out in NYC!

NASDAQ Closing Bell

Casey is a member of the Junior League and serves on a committee called "Mentoring Partners." The committee is in conjunction with the national organization, Mentoring USA. January 28th is natoinal mentoring day and Mentoring USA was invited to attend the closing bell of the NASDAQ. So, members of the Junior League's Mentoring Partners committee joined the event.

2nd Wedding Anniversary

The Simmonses couldn't believe 2 years had gone by since they got married in Florida. To celebrate they went to a neighborhood Greek restaurant called Pylos. Excellent! p.s. they decided to continue being newlyweds- who says the duration can only be a year?

Casey & Lauren's trip to Germany & Prague, Czech Republic

Casey's sister, Lauren, had never been to Europe. So what a better reason to go than to celebrate a college graduation? Casey wanted to share some of the places she had been in college (Munich, Germany and Prague, Czech Republic). Their schedules didn't allow them to go until winter, but they didn't care! All bundled up they enjoyed the week. It was an amazing time!!

WEISBADEN

- A Carnival store in Mainz

- The market in Mainz

- Lauren in the snow (1st time that trip)

- Weisbaden walk by our hotel

- Jen (from Stetson), her husband Gil, Lauren, and Casey drinking Reisling in Weisbaden

PRAGUE

- Top of the clock tower at night
- Charles Bridge (1st of many trips across), twilight and day

- The castle

- Inisde the cathedral

- Out at U Fleku

- Old square at night

MUNICH

- Dinner at Haufbrauhaus

- Crashing a birthday party

- Market

- Glockenspiel

- Inside "Our dear lady" cathedral

LAST NIGHT IN FRANKFURT

-We Karayoked with Germans to Journey

Boonedoggle 2009

The annual "Boonedoggle" holiday reunion of Dartmouth friends was a great time.

As tradition, everyone went to dinner on Friday night at La Mela in Little Italy.

Afterwards they all stopped by the Sopranos bar (it's called that because no one knows the name of the place, but they shot several scenes of the TV show there) for some karaoke.

Saturday night Casey & Duncan went over to the Grafs for some tree trimming with Libby's brother and Elizabeth and Arnold Song; who were visiting from Rhode Island.

The gang hopped in a cab (miracle that one was available due to the snow storm) down to Lee & Jael's apartment in the Lower East Side. There was a new attendee this year- Max! He is the first of the next generation.