These pictures were taken by Jeff Simpson.

DJ Natch VJ'd his world famous videos swing night at UCF. This time it wasn't just an 80's night, but swingable music videos from any era were played. A totally awesome time was had by all.

Jeff, Linda and I got up at dawn to take photos of the quiet streets slowly waking to a pretty Saturday. These are the last photos from my stay in New York City. There are still so many pictures I wish I had taken...

Jeff and Linda came to visit before we left for Florida. We all went out shooting and these are what Jeff came up with.

The Yankees won, and Alex Rodriguez hit his 500th home run!

I am still getting used to a new camera. Sorry about the blurry pictures.

We finally made a trip to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. The pictures of our apartment building show how close we live to these two historical monuments.

We took a group tour of the United Nations.

Twice a year the sunset lines up so that it sets perfectly between the buildings along the streets of Manhattan. It is called Manhattanhenge because it resembles Stonehenge. These pictures were taken from the Tudor City bridge over 42nd Street.

It was freezing! Rainy, windy, cold, but still a good time at a party on the 21st floor of our building.

We just so happened to pick this day to go to Coney Island, which turned out to be a much better photo opportunity than we had anticipated.

I always buy the largest eggs possible so that the chances of getting double-yolks are increased. This dozen had three double-yolk eggs!

I accompanied Damon partway to the airport on his way back down to Florida, and then I spent the rest of the day in the City (Central Park, mostly) taking pictures with my new camera.

Willis moved on up from 7 Hanover Square to One World Financial Center.

We all went out to play pool in the city. So sorry about the blue pictures and the blurriness. It wasn't the beer, I swear. My little point-and-shoot doesn't do so great in low light, and it didn't help that I obviously didn't have the white balance set correctly. But it was a good time, anyway.

We played in the snow in the park in front of our apartment building.

First we rode the tram to Roosevelt Island, then we took the subway down to the tip of Manhattan to catch the Staten Island Ferry. On Staten Island we rode the subway a few stops just so we could say we actually set foot on Staten Island. Then we made our way back to the ESPN Restaurant/Bar at Times Square so that I could win a couple of games of air hockey. It was, after all, my birthday. My pictures in this album are not so exciting. Damon brought his own camera and took better pictures than I: click here

My first ski experience ever! We went to Ski Liberty in Pennsylvania, with a stop in Chambersburg to see some old haunts and visit some young friends.

We actually braved the City on New Year's Eve. We didn't even get there at the crack of dawn. We leisurely left our apartment in the early evening and figured we'd get as close as we could and see what we see. Ha. The ball drops on 42nd Street, and we couldn't get closer than 57th or so. But I still got my piece of confetti! It was pretty cold, so we wandered around and watched people 'til we felt like leaving, and we got home just in time to catch some decent shots of the fireworks at midnight from our balcony. Perfect.

We went into the City to look around and go ice skating at Rockefeller Center. We ended up deciding to wait because the lines were so long. I wanted to get more pictures of how pretty the City is during Christmastime but my camera battery ran out of juice! The first couple of shots are of our balcony decorated in festive hot pink for the holiday season.