Dave's Bike

Va va varrrmm
Dave on the bike


Dave and his woman



The Dineens

My First "REAL" Job-August 15, 2005

UNICEF:

United Nations Children's Fund

Today I was offered my first REAL job!

I will be working for UNICEF in the department of UN Affairs and External Relations!

To read more about the organization, click here.

Pool Party for Laure! August 13, 2005

Eric BBQing up some ribs, steak tips, etc, etc...yum yum


Food, food...who's got food. Give me food.





John


Ellen and Fred. The Happy Couple


Rooney, Laure, Dima


Hey good lookin'

Jessica eating watermelon and Vigis watching. Steve and I in the background






"Le Penseur" and "The Thinker"



THE POOL



Having fun in the pool


Jiro and Steve


Dave going down the slide




Weeeeee.....



Living the American Dream


Olivier living the American Dream!


Steve feeding me beer after a nice cool dip in the pool


Clearly I was in need of more beer. Thanks Steve!









And the day is drawing to an end. Time to say goodbye to Laure:


Jaren and Laure


Laure and Vigdis



And after Larue, it's the Afterparty:

Time for some Ethiopian Food at Addis Red Sea Restaurant

Vigdis and Liesel



(part of Dave--ouch looks like he got burnt), John, Jiro and Jessica trying to decide what to eat...



Mark and Suzanne



Wiping our hands



Wiping Steve (with the sponge bread)



...and after the afterparty it's not the hotel lobby, but Clerey's


The Dineens


The Diolosa's

The Boys getting their groove on....








For more on the pool party, ethiopian and clerey's see Vig's blog

My Parents visit including Atlantic City-August 6-7th

NEW YORK

My parents arrived on late Wednesday night. On Thursday, we met up for lunch around the neighborhood. We went to a delicious steakhouse.

I had to go back to work unfortunately, but we all met up later.
Dad and Mom picked me up from work (in a cab--there's a side story my Mom would love to tell) and went to my humble home on East 78th.

My Dad made friends with Lulu--because he was giving her TREATS!

After hanging out at my apt, we went to dinner at LUPA, Mario Batali's famous Italian Restaurant.


Friday, my parents toured the city. That night Mom and I went to go see "Light in the Piazza".

Here's us enjoying our pre-show drinks.

ATLANTIC CITY

It was a short, but fun trip! The 4 of us piled into Steve's parent's minivan, faught our way through the Jersey Shore traffic and ended up winning big!



The 4, yes, the 4 of us ALL shared our lovely room in
the Tropicana Hotel. A toast to the weekend...lord help us all!
Fortunately, we all survived and I still have a boyfriend!

We had mojito's in Cuba, next to Stalin and P.F Chang's (the Tropicana was full of Commies) on Saturday night.

After a delicious dinner we headed to the casino....


Daddy winning BIG! Though his bucket is near empty...
oh wait...I think I see a quarter in there.


Pulling the slots.



....After the parents got tired, Steve and I proceeded to the roulette table in the Hilton where we won big...after several hours and many drinks later!


We enjoyed the beach and the Atlantic Ocean. And a nice stroll down the boardwalk!


The Big Kahuna and Steve checking out the waves


The shoreline of Atlantic City, NJ


The folks on a ride down the boardwalk




After a yummy lunch at Corky's, it was time for us to go. We worked our way back up to NYC--even with all the truckers drinking all the F-ing lattes--and dropped Annie and Greg off at JFK.

Camping in Acadia, ME-July 28-30

The camping gang: Cisco, Lollipop, Big Mama, Candy Cane, Black Hawk (or Black C--k), Grandma (or Gremlin), plus the doggies Pedro and Nina. I'm Bald Eagle taking the picture.

...Take a look at that tent. It's HUGE



Black C--k and Candy Cane. The future Mr. and Mrs. Diolosa!


The Gremlin. Sleeping?

The Men.
Steve, Dave, Olivier, John and Pedro.


Going on a baseball hunt...I'm not scared.
Throughout the weekend we played baseball. We lost some balls.
We found a ball. We lost a ball. We found a ball.



On our hike.



"Big Mama, what's your 20?"...."copy that. Roger."
We made sure we all stuck together on our hike by use of
John's walki talki's!



Another view.

The View along the hike.


Taking a nice relaxing break on our strenuous hike






Steve. What are you looking at? Trees, water...nature? Ah, nature.


I guess I'm looking at nature too..









View from the top!


Greetings from the top!


Eating lunch perched ontop of a "mountain". Food prepared by Vigdis.
That girl can make a mean tuna fish sandwich.




We made a firend. Rather, Dave made a friend (refer to Vigdis' blog for more info)


We took a stroll through Bar Harbor and found a delicious ice creamery...
nothing like home made icecream after a LONG hike on a hot summer day!


Whatcha got there Steve? Picking a winner I hope.


THE FIRE! Ready for a feast! After our long day of surviving in "remote" Acadica/Bar Harbor, ME we worked up quite the appetite and cooked everything in sight (including the paper plates).




Eating our feast around the campfire. We had beans, lots of beans with the
best chesseburger Vigdis has EVER had.


Though the trip up and down took longer than expected and Acadia wasn't as "remote" as we all thought we had fun!