Past Fun!

I will be writing quite a few posts about my past week. I didn't have time this week to write and I can't fit in all the fun and excitement into one blog so you will get a series. I also hope you like the new layout; I just thought I would switch things up a little.

I am starting off with the rest of my trip to New York. While in the Big Apple I picked up a few new readers to my blog. Welcome one and all! I'm sure you don't think I could top my Saturday fun, but I did. The four of us, BH, DKNY, Ando and I, went to lunch since we all got up late from partying hard the night before. After a pleasant lunch we walked to Game Stop and priced out Rock Band. Rock Band was a little pricey so regular Ando type mulling had to take place.

While mulling was going on we all went to Union Square to buy wine at Trader Joe's. Goose called while we were on the subway to pick up some bread so we needed to find a bakery as well. Apparently bakeries are hard to come by in Union Square and the East Village. We finally found a little bakery and bought a loaf. After going to Trader Joe's and buying wine we went to Whole Foods for some more fresh bread. Whole Foods was a jungle, I could never shop like that. I will say however that they do have a good checkout system.

Since mulling was still going on a stop to Circuit City needed to be made for another look at Rock Band. It was still the same price so it was still not bought. The box was a little big to carry around too. I will try to let you know if BH and DKNY ever do get Rock Band. It was now off to Greenpoint for some wine and cheese.

The wine and cheese party at Living in Sin Part III, man do I know a lot of sinners out there, was a rousing good feast. We even had a special picture drawn for us by MAGnum PI. I liked that we didn't have to go out to eat every night we were there. Thanks to MAGnum PI and CB Radio for having us over!

Sunday was another fun day of lots of people and enclosed tight spaces. We decided to go to the St. Patrick's Day Parade since we were in town and all. The parade is 5 hours so there was no need to get there on time. We arrived at 50th around 12:30 and witnessed some of the parade out five people deep. You could hardly see anything, but really all there was to see were firemen and police walking down in turns with some bagpipers in between. Not really fun. I am going to try and add a video for everyone. The quality isn't very good, but you get the idea of the parade. I hope my first video adventure works.

After too many people, and by the way there were too many people on the subway to get there as well, we headed to the Guggenheim. When we got there the parade was going on right past the museum. We all thought the parade ended 2 blocks earlier, but apparently they keep walking a couple of blocks to disperse. We should have just gone there in the first place to see the parade without a bunch of people.

We went to the museum, very cool exhibits there right now, and when we were finished the parade was still going on. Somehow we managed to see the parade three times and really only tried once. Since it was St. Patrick's Day we headed to a bar for some drinking and more friend hanging out. We went to a bar that had $2 beers and BOGO appetizers. The bar also had games there so a rousing game of Trivial Pursuit followed. Let me tell you Trivial Pursuit is more fun and much more tolerable on game length if you have a couple beers in you.

The next day was of course flying home day. This blog is getting a little long so I will try to be quick about the fun of flying home. We got a car to go to the airport and thought we were leaving ourselves plenty of time, but of course there was an accident on the BQE. We got to the airport about 40 to 45 minutes before our flight was to leave. We still had to go through security as well. After security, which I feel is so much easier and New York airports for some reason, we headed to our gate. When we got to the gate about 2 minutes later they started boarding. Really we times the whole thing perfectly.

We left our gate and got in line to take off. The pilot came over and told us we were 26th in line for take off. This time Ando and I weren't sitting with frat boys we were sitting with the Paula Dean fan club. I guess there was a family that came to New York and were flying back to Alabama. They were spread out all over the plane, some in front and some in the back. They decided it was fine to yell back and forth to each other. I was quite uncomfortable. They were trying to make really bad jokes too.

We finally took off and made it safely back to Cincinnati a half hour late. How nice it was to be greeted with cold rainy weather too. Not much else happened when we got back. Just a quick trip to the Library to pick up my hold and a few other materials that I wanted and a trip to our Trader Joe's. Home sweet home!

Ando took me to NYC; no romantic proposal at Top of the Rock.