“Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.” —Brad Paisley

from the cozy but crazy busy lobby of the…

ACE Hotel.

The whole family is here,

out and about,

enjoying this magnificent city…

and a few of the new arrivals like Story…

check it out…

 with its community minded mission.

One of the many reasons…
I ♡ New York.

Have fun ringing in 2014.
Keep it safe.

"London has literally glimmered with excitement and enthusiasm during 2012...It’s been a wonderful year, but believe me, 2013 is going to be every bit as exciting." ~ Boris Johnson, Mayor of London

There is nothing like a...

especially when there are fireworks involved.

Wanting to see the fireworks without standing elbow to elbow amongst thousands...

we took a gamble and booked a room at our old stanby bordering Hyde Park...

Lancaster London...

knowing that we had a slight chance our room would be high enough and facing the direction of the London Eye where the show would take place.

Bin-go...

all we needed were two clinkable glasses and a bottle of bubbly to enjoy what turned out to be quite the spectacular end to HM the Queen's Jubilee year.

Of course, my video pales to BBC since we were unable to hear the music.

We could just make out Big Ben's stroke of midnight. 

Enjoy your first weekend of 2013.

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day." ~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce

For some strange reason...

I feel jet lagged and I have not left this time zone for a while now.

So... 

I have no excuse for not greeting you with a proper blog post other than my mind is as discombobulated as this fragmented gif... 

(poor photography skills on my part)... 

from Picadilly Circus...

trying to get my head around the fact that it is 2013.

Meanwhile...

there are bags to unpack,

and Christmas decorations to pack away.

I will start filling the blank pages of this year tomorrow.

Happy Thursday.