Weekend Review

I had a great weekend and wish I’d had my camera to document the fun! Unfortunately, my camera’s LCD screen recently shattered and it was in the shop all weekend getting fixed up.

Friday night, I went to my first outdoor movie of the summer. This was my first time to do this in Central Park and it was great! We saw the movie, “Moonstruck”. No one could believe I’d never seen it before. The weather was perfect and we brought yummy snacks and wine for dinner. Unfortunately, we had some jerks sitting next to us. These things are always packed out and when we got there, the space on the ground was limited. We found a small spot and worked on putting our blanket down, trying not to disturb the people already there. The edge of our blanket was just barely touching the one next to ours and the man made a big point to pick it up and move it off his. He then proceeded to move over and lay down along the very edge of his blanket so that there was no way any of our stuff could touch his. Mind you, he and his wife had a blanket big enough for a queen size bed and when we got there, they were sitting in the middle of it with plenty of room on either side of them. They literally had more space than anyone in the entire park. I got up the nerve to ask, “Excuse me. Do you have more people coming”? To which the man responded, “Yes. Four more people". I was skeptical, but gave them the benefit of the doubt and thought if they really were sharing their blanket with 6 people, they did need all that space. But, of course, their 4 friends never showed up. These people were about 50-years-old behaving like 3-year-olds. So rude!!! But, the weather was great, movie was fun, etc…. Afterwards, Rosella, Christina, and I were heading to grab a drink somewhere and happened upon the set of Gossip Girls! We watched the filming for over an hour and it was so much fun!! We saw Serena (Blake Lively), Dan (Penn Badgley), Nate (Chase Crawford), and Bart Bass (Robert John Burke). We stood by the craft services table, which was interesting in itself. They had SO much junk food!! Tons of candy, salty treats, nuts, bread, PB&J, cookies, etc…. I also enjoyed watching Blake & Penn interact off-set (they date in real life). Their interaction, was actually very little! Penn spent most of his time chatting w/ the crew while Blake spent most of her time in a little tent that we assumed was pretty fancy on the inside. After watching the filming, we were too tired to get a drink so I walked home.

Saturday, I met up with 2 girls from church, Sarah & Jen, and one of their friends to go to a BIG 12 bar-b-que. Sarah is the president of the OU alum club in NYC and Jenn takes part in both Colorado and UT events as she went to Colorado for undergrad and UT for grad school. For most of the time, I was the only Baylor person there, but a couple of people I know showed up as we were heading out. UT definitely had the most people there and I’d say Mizzou probably had the 2nd most, although they had way less than UT. I met some of the Mizzou people, including 2 people who grew up in Columbia, so that was fun. We spent 4 hours sitting out in the sun chatting and snacking and I ended up pretty sunburned on my shoulders! One of the most fun parts about the event was that it was on Roosevelt Island and we got to take the tram across the river from Manhattan. I had never been on the tram before and it was a fun ride with some good city views!

Sunday I went with Christina and Rosella to the Mets/Astros game. Christina plans events for the University of Houston alum club, so they were going to support the Astros and she invited me and Rosella to come along. We started out by getting lunch at JG Melon on the Upper East Side – great burgers. It was a fun afternoon and so nice to spend the majority of one of the last summer weekends outside!