Peltzer Weekly News - Season One - Episode Five

Dear Everyone We Love,

This week we had a lot of fun, as usual. We are still alive, still living in Brooklyn in our apartment called "The Relaxing Getaway on Prospect Park". We got Monday off because of presidents day, so we planned to go to Staten Island because we had a gift card for the Perkins Restaurant from Serena's parents. There is no Perkins in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx...it is only on Staten Island. We planned an entire day trip to go just to that restaurant. We rode a bus, then the subway, then the ferry, then a train....then some walking and we arrived at our destination! On our way, we were able to see the statue of the "Wall Street Bull", which is a symbol of the New York Financial District (abbreviated here as the Fi Di). We also passed by the Statue of Liberty. It was our closest view of her so far. She even winked at us as we passed by her...it was great. Once we arrived in Staten Island we both agreed that it didn't feel like we were in New York anymore. In fact, it didn't feel like we were in a big city anymore at all. It felt more like we were in Orem, Utah...maybe even Ogden, Utah....it was strange! The restaurant is located in an area of Staten Island called "Old Town" and maybe it is called Old Town because you have to be a certain age to live there? We didn't really see very many people our age there. Round trip, it took up our entire day, but it was a fun ride full of things to see with a variety of transportation.

This week, Mat had exams in his classes. We didn't go out to play during the week and we were up pretty late on some nights studying and working. Friday we met up in the afternoon after work and studying at the Manhattan Temple. We made an interesting friend there who said that since we weren't from Manhattan, that we were living in the countryside in Brooklyn. We laughed at him...these city people don't know what "The Countryside" really means.

After the temple we had our date night. We went out to a mexican restaurant similar to Cafe Rio and it was great. It was on the opposite side of Central Park from the Temple. We enjoyed strolling through the park at dark, with the city sky scrapers covered in fog, mixed with the rain and the lights. We passed through 5th ave and some fancy apartment buildings. It was fun to see the city in the rainy darkness.

Saturday was our biggest adventure...we watched a few youtube videos about how to cut a mans hair and felt like that was sufficient preparation for Mat to have his own hair cut by none other than Serena. He had great faith and trust in her even though she warned him many many times that he may come out of this looking scary enough to not want to go out into public for at least a month. But it didn't turn out too bad? At least that is what Mat says. We'll see what your opinion is, we've included some pictures.

We would like to congratulate Serena's brother Stuart's girlfriend Danielle. She was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on Saturday and confirmed a member today. We are excited for her and happy to welcome her as a new member of the church.

We would also like to wish our sister-in-law Marie-Christine Peltzer a very happy birthday this Monday. We hope you know how much you are loved and that you have a very happy day.

We hope you are doing well and are enjoying the weekly updates...at least we hope you enjoy getting them...:)

With love,

The Peltzers