How to Make Dumplings

Another guest post from Geek Girl:

Yesterday I made dumplings for dinner. Here are some pictures:

Starting.

How to make the dumplings.

The finishing touch.

Some Manhattan Food

We spent 4th of July and several days afterwards in Manhattan. Here are some of the meals we remembered to photograph.

Chocolate Chip Cookie, Mississippi Mud Pie, and Sour Cream Apple Walnut Pie from Little Pie Company.


For our 4th of July dinner we went to Cafe Niagra for Sri Lankan food. Daddy Geek and I hadn't had any Sri Lankan food since we left Zürich and we weren't going to miss the opportunity. We also have a tradition of having non-traditional foods for holidays. Bastille Day 2000 found us in Paris and we had Chinese take-out in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.


Geek Girl's big slices of pizza (she only finished one slice) from Big Nick's.


Macarons from La Maison du Macaron (website has music).
On the far plate are rose, lemon, and orange. The near plate has two chocolates, mango, caramel and cassis. In this shot, the cassis is too blue.


Here's another shot of the cassis where it's a little more purple.


One night we decided to stay close to the hotel for dinner. Daddy Geek decided to ask the concierge for a recommendation and after securing a reservation we hurried to the restaurant for our table. However, after we sat down and looked at the menu we realized that the prices were a little higher than we we wanted for large servings of uninspired Italian food (maybe that's why the restaurant didn't have a menu posted outside). They had brought us water, but we decided that it wasn't the place for us and we left. We ended up at Trattori Trecolori (which we had considered earlier) for a more affordable and just as enjoyable meal. Geek Girl really wanted me to take a picture of the balsamic vinegar/olive oil because it looked like the yin and yang symbol


Overall we ate pretty well. We also enjoyed Alsatian food, dim sum, gelato, a visit to Shake Shack, and yummy baked goods

Ohio and the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Kids' Museum

Note: this is a guest post from our Geek Girl. She wrote the text and took the pictures.

I am visiting Ohio! I am staying at Hampton Inn. Here are some pictures:

the view out our window

the bed I'm sleeping in

I visited the Children's Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Here are some pictures of the bird in the front:

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They have a special "kids only" thing where you can see the next floor up.
[Daddy called it the "anthill".]

They have an exhibit where you make a boat and then play with it in the river they made.

This is me at the birdseed part of the art exhibit.

I had fun at the museum!

P.S.: my daddy is big doofus!

[No, I'm not.]