Fun NYC Night!

I had a very fun evening last night with some unexpected celeb sightings. I met Rosella, Christina, and Kim for dinner at Perry Street, one of Jean-Georges restaurants that I've been wanting to try (I've been to his Vong and Spice Market restaurants). We went for their Restaurant Week menu. Perry Street was different - it had a more modern, open feel to it. It was crowded, but didn't feel crowded because the restaurant is so big. The food was good, but not as great as I expected. My mozzarella/cherry tomato appetizer was good, but nothing special. The lightly battered fried chicken I got was quite good and the chocolate molten cake was very good! We had a fun evening with a great waiter. The highlight was when Dennis Leary came in and sat at the booth right next to us. He and his wife and daughter had a very quiet dinner and we enjoyed watching them all night. Afterwards, we walked to the subway, and saw J-Lo filming her new movie. They were using the stoop of the same brownstone that was Carrie Bradshaw's in SATC. We stood around watching for a short while and then stood right next to J-Lo's car as she got in to leave. It was a very fun night!

I'm still working on some other posts w/ pictures but have to wait until I get my home computer fixed to get the pictures up!

ACK!

I am currently dealing with a computer malfunction at home. Oh, no! So, I haven’t been able to upload pictures or post on my blog. Just know that there will be some good posts soon (computer should be fixed early next week). Have I ever mentioned that NYC in the summer is the BEST? Yes, I love a New York summer and have done some really fun things over the past week. I even have pictures to prove it. And I’m leaving today for Chicago, so there will have to be a Chicago post as well. So, hang on tight – I’ll be back soon!

Red, White, & Blue

I had a great 4th of July weekend! I did a lot of relaxing and watched a ton of Lost Episodes. I've been recording Lost on the Sci-Fi channel because they recently started back at Season 1 and a lot of my co-workers watch so I felt the need to be in the loop! I realized my DVR was about to max-out so I needed to do some catching-up. I really like that show even though I'm usually not into Sci-Fi stuff. I'm just hoping it doesn't get too much weirder than it's already gotten.

I wasn't a complete recluse all weekend - I did get out some, too!! I went for some runs/long walks in the park - love that we are finally having warm weather and no rain! On Friday, I met my pastor for coffee at Starbucks and to discuss some things - it was a great time and he is a great pastor! For the 4th, I pulled some various friends together and we decided to brave the crowds and find a spot to see the fireworks over the Hudson River. This was the first time since the 1950's that the show was done over the Hudson, rather than the East River. They did it to celebrate 400 years since Henry Hudson's voyage down the river or something like that, but we thought that Sullenberger's plane landing on the Hudson this year was a better reason to celebrate there! We decided that we would try to go to P.D. O'Hurley's, a bar & grill right on the river. We went at 4pm and really weren't sure if there was any way we would ever get a table. We weren't sure what our next plan would be, but were prepared to find our own spot and hunker down for a while....we had games, our own food & drinks, chairs, etc... But, we got a table at the bar & grill! We just had to sit there until the fireworks were over around 10pm. They charged us an extra $20/person to sit there all night and pretty much demanded we eat continuously through the night. We just kept ordering 1 appetizer at a time and splitting amongst us all. It worked out great!!! The wait went by so quickly because we were so comfortable and having so much fun. We were quite proud of ourselves for finding such a great place to hang out for hours and the fireworks view was perfect. There were 8 barges up and down the Hudson that simultaneously did the same fireworks show. Two of the barges were on the water right out in front of our table and if we turned our necks in either direction, we could see 3 other barges. It was a very fun night! Sunday morning I went to church and then to brunch with some of the CG girls and Erin's parent's. It was a great morning!

PD O'Hurley's!

PD O'Hurley's with the crowds

and river in the background

Myself, Kim, and Jen

(Community Group friends)

Myself with Christina (from Book Club) I didn't

get pics of Christina's 2 friends who came

The Macy's Barges finally arrived on the Hudson!
Later, we saw the gorgeous sunset and Erin showed

up with her parents who were in town from Cali! We were seated right next to the Intrepid

aircraft carrier which was lit for the Holiday