drink: bloody mary with brunch, pear cider spiked with the captain, blackberry cosmos and stoli-vanilla-and-sprite
what: brunch at St James Gate, R's 30th birthday & a double date with E & K (Rice, Vig 27 and Desmonds Tavern)
so, before i begin, its official - westside brewing company closed... j and i are sad sad sad because that had kind of become our place and it was a good balance between bar and restaurant vibe.. which means we need to find a new place. le sigh.
so j and i are lameasses and fell asleep super early on friday night, meaning we missed eating dinner... which meant that, upon waking on saturday, we were both starved... i knew i wanted a drink with my brunch but aside from that, had little agenda... we first tried going to Josie's but failed as i tend to forget that saturday brunch is nearly as crowded as sunday brunch and, therefore, you cant just walk in at 1pm and get a table... we wandered up amsterdam and finally settled on St James Gate and some bloody marys, french toast w/ bananas for me and french toast with poached eggs, bacon and potatoes for J...
after a few errands, we headed back home to get ready for R's surprise 30th birthday party, where we'd stop in for the 'surprise!' part before we headed out to meet E & K for dinner and stuff... party was nice - r was super-surprised - however, we might as well have been naked in the middle of the room as the work crew were the only non-orthodox people in the place... eh, whatever. they're just jealous that i get to wear jeans ;)
finally it was off to rice to meet E&K (first time i'd be meeting either of them) which never disappoints as rice is still one of my favorite restaurants in the city... afterwards, our lushy selves decided to head to Vig 27 for drinks... ladies, if you are single and like the investment banker types, i suggest heading to Vig... it had to be 5 or 10 - 1 guys to girls... every time a girl walked in, we watched her get swallowed up by the sea of men. it was fairly hilarous but fairly wasted on a girl out with her bf ;)
eventually we could take no more of the I-banker scene and headed out to Desmond's Tavern where a co-workers band was playing... listened to a few songs, watched the band nearly get electrocuted by the leaky ceiling and the, the best part of the night, k & e helped me convince J that we should - no NEEDED - to go see the plane in the hudson. i'd been trying to get him to go since friday to no avail... i wanted to see the plane in the hudson! E&K live near where it was stuck, so after hours and hours of prodding, j realized that resistance was futile and that he should just accept it...
imagine my delight when we got down to BPC and found the plane no longer in the hudson, but instead, the plane was on a crane!
i know some people dont approve of touristing the plane, but whatever. no one died. its not morbid. its a plane that was in the hudson river! (hopefully) a once in a lifetime thing. how could i not go??? sure, we froze. sure, j wanted to kill me. but the plane! on a crane! even if he wont admit it, he's glad he saw it too ;)
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