New York City offers some spectacular city views. So, if you have to choose which Manhattan peak to summit, where should you go? Should you shoot up to the Top of the Rock or swing by Kong’s hangout? I offer our experience.
Anna is sick with the stomach flu (no I didn’t poison her…well, hopefully not) so I am taking it upon myself to kick off a new year of fun-loving posts.
Why is Anna sick? I’m hoping it doesn’t have anything to do with the meal I made for her (one of our resolutions is to take turns cooking every other night). I seem to have survived (nice work small intestine).
Where it began, I can’t begin to know. Wait a minute. I think it may have all started at a dueling piano bar in Times Square by the name of Sweet Caroline’s.
I had never been to a piano bar before. But, I do have a certain fondness for pianos and I do enjoy bars a good deal, so it seemed like a great idea from the get-go.
This last weekend as we were looking for something to do Drew found a nifty little advertisement for Open House New York. Its a weekend where buildings that are usually not open to the public are opened for limited hours. We decided to go see the Chrysler building, but got a very late start. In fact we didn’t get out of the apartment until after 3:00 PM. (I got distracted making cupcakes and Drew was distracted doing something on his computer.) Even though the building closed to the public at 4:00 PM we thought we’d give it a try. (Its not like one of us is in grad school or the other one isn’t busy running a web based marketing campaign or anything.)
It turns out we live just three blocks from Grant’s Tomb, the largest mausoleum in America (and the second largest in the Western Hemisphere). Creepy? A little. Cool? Absolutely.
Some of the more interesting facts I learned about the 18th President of the United States:
I’m taking some time away from my studying and cleaning to reflect a bit on the past week since I last blogged. Okay not really taking time away from as much as postponing my studying and cleaning…
Drew recently posted about our Saturday of running and giant pianos. Seriously, I loved the FAO Shcwarz store. It was so much fun. If people come and visit I think I might make them go there. I mean its free and you get to play on a giant piano. Its fabulous!
But Drew already wrote about that so I will talk a little about what we did last weekend. We went to the world famous Lenox Lounge.
I woke up this morning and started to prepare for my first race in exactly 364 days (the last race being the 2006 Twin Cities Marathon 5K Run/Walk which I completed in a tidy 20:00). I’d like to say I planned it that way…you know, for dramatic effect and to keep up my two race/year average.
Nevertheless, the old pre-race habits came back right away: lace up shoes, attach timing chip, crumple up race number and put in mouth, eat a box of Kraft Mac and Cheese (OK, I threw that one in for fun).
I started my Friday evening by scoping out some watering holes on Yahoo Maps. I found an area on the Upper West Side that seemed to have quite a few places to offer. I scratched down a few names and addresses on a note card and Anna and I headed out (after a few outfit changes).
Our first stop was Bourbon St. on Amsterdam between 79th and 80th Street. Their Web site was extremely influential in making it the first on our mini pub crawl. There’s something about “Cheap Bud” in 50-point font that really grabs you by the cullions.
Bronx Zoo from Drew Geraets and Vimeo.
This past week marked the beginning of my graduate school career. I am not sure what that means just yet, and thats a little frightening and exciting. As a graduate social work student I will have two days of classes and three days of field placement, where I will actually be in a social work setting doing social work things. I don’t know how I am supposed to know what these social work things are as that is what I am going to school for, but I guess we will see.
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