New York: Brick Haus and Family

One of the other great parts about my trip to NYC was getting to see Anna and Katherine for a Brick Haus reunion, kind of as a catchup celebration for our 40th birthdays. The reunion actually was Kelly's idea, and she was supposed to join us too, but she ended up catching Covid that same week and had to stay home. We thought about her often and even called her at one point, but we tried to also give her some space so that she wouldn't have FOMO. We got to visit several museums, saw two shows ("The Play that Went Wrong" and "Hadestown") and several delicious restaurants. Ben met up with us for one meal too, and it was fun to see him again. One of my favorite memories is from our last day, when Katherine and I walked through Central Park to get to-and-from the Met, and then we walked through the galleries chatting about the art we saw.

The Saturday I was in NYC was especially fun, since my brother C and his wife S came down from New Haven to visit me. Katherine and Anna were really gracious about letting them join our plans. It was neat to see C, who is in medical school, I was reminded about how my other brother A did something similar when we went out to New York for CAA about ten years ago, back when he was in medical school. We met C and S at The Cloisters and then went down to the Natural History Museum. It was fun to go through the exhibits with them and talk about the art. C had some really fun things to say about different humanoid skeletons too; it was neat to hear his perspective.

I feel lucky that I got to see family on that particular Saturday, since all of the other S-family members were gathering in Utah for Winston's birthday and L's mission farewell. It was nice to feel connected to family on that same day, even though our two groups of family gatherings were in two separate parts of the country!