return to Seattle via New York so I could spend time with my family. Since the last visit, we had a new addition to the family – Lisa and JB's son named Jeffrey (aka "Little JB"). Little JB looks very much like JB, but upon further reflection I think he has Consor cheeks (read: chubby). You can find a bunch of pictures of Jeffrey here, plus I posted one on the left. On Friday night, we went to one of my favorite places in NYC for dinner – Volare. Joining Lisa, JB and I were my folks, Glenn, Gwen (Happy Birthday Gwen!), Harrison (now 10 months old!), Aunt Joyce, Cousins Charlie, Linda and their daughter, Arianna.
I do not recall Arianna's exact age but I would guess she is around 6 years old, and she is quite precocious. Arianna is also full of laughs, which makes her much fun to be around. She also has a very natural talent for taking pictures, so who knows – maybe we have a budding professional artist in our family!
Volare always comes through with excellent food, wine, 
service and they put on the Yankee game, which was very cool. To the right, you'll see a picture of Gwen and Harrison (love those Consor Curls) - notice the Yankee game on in the corner. J
My boys pulled it out in extra innings and are now in the midst of their longest winning streak of 2007! Just remember Yankee naysayers that in 2004, the Red Sox were 9+ games behind at the end of July and we all know what happened in October. I'll also include a picture of Aunt Joyce declaring victory over Volare's house specialty of osso buco.
Other happenings over the weekend included attending a college chum's daughter's christening (more on that here) and cooking dinner for Puff Daddy, Sunny D, Lisa and JB. Jeffrey is not ready for seafood at 8 weeks old, I guess. Hehe. I re-did the Copper River Salmon recipe that I talked about last week, and it came out much better (we sent some salmon straight from Seattle through the guys at Pike Place). Prepared some sautéed spinach with garlic, shallots and lemon zest to go with it. JB cooked up some flank steak since he said he was not a seafood fan, which was very tasty, and he opened up one of their special occasion bottles of wine – a Sauvignon Blanc from Groth. Lisa and JB picked it up on a trip to Napa with Cousin Claire and Pete. Good stuff and thanks for sharing, JB. We purchased some webcams for the distant relatives so our ever-increasing collection of nieces and nephews can have an idea of what Uncle Marc and Aunt Jill look like. Installed one of the cams at my folks house and showed them how to use it. I am sure we will need to show them again. Marc was a gracious guinea pig, although I did catch him wearing a Fenway Park shirt so I'll be dealing with that upon my return to Seattle. J
We also connected Lisa and JB's webcam to Marc, and it was really cool that Marc got to see Jeffrey for the first time. Love technology – there are some kinks with the audio, but it is pretty awesome nevertheless.
As Marc and JB are talking back and forth on the webcams, JB is talking about how I am cooking salmon. Marc then laments about how proud I was that he ate the salmon I cooked last week…. lots of sarcasm here. Anyway JB is joking with him on the topic, but did promise me earlier that he would try it at dinner. Well the joke is on you boys! JB liked it and said he would eaten it if it was served to him. HAHA.
Gotta run…. We just hit 10,000 feet and I am being told to put the laptop away. More later on the christening.