Sorry for the long delay between my posts. I have a fear of being too boring on my posts, so I tend not to write. I will try to over come this fear in the next two years. Hopefully, soon I will be a posting madwoman with long detailed boring events written up for you non-stop.

A lot has gone on in the week and a half since I last wrote. As you can see from the spectacular video montage that Drew posted, he and I went to the Bronx Zoo. (Thanks Alaina, Dani, Lindsey and Steve!!) It was a lot of fun. We were able to check out all of the exciting attractions the zoo offers including the skyfari, the Asia Monorail, the Bug Carousel and the Gorilla exhibit.

I think my favorite was the bug carousel. I mean, we got to sit on giant bugs, and go round in circles for a good five minutes, how could that not be awesome?

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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.

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My Subway Station from Drew Geraets on Vimeo.

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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So I no longer have to pay an extra daily fee to rent a car. That’s like Corolla cool baby.

What else happened on my 25th birthday? Anna and I put on makeup, dolled ourselves up and went to Terrace in the Sky near Columbia thanks to a generous gift certificate from my best man Bill. I’ll just say it. My wife looked pretty hot. She’s a 10. I’m not sure how hot I was. I’m probably pulling down a solid 6 or 7 right now.

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On Saturday I was browsing through a free newspaper Drew picked up at the subway and I saw something that read, “Last day to see Governor’s Island for free Sunday, September 1st.” I had no idea what it was, but I thought we should definitely go, especially since it was the last day to go. Drew agreed. So after heading to Mass at the beautiful Church of Notre Dame, we hopped on the 1 - train and headed south to the tip of Manhattan.

I must let all of you know that the subways are crazy on the weekends. Usually the 1 train would take us right to the port for the ferry to Governor’s Island, but not so on the weekend. We had to find another train that took us close to where we wanted to go before we hit 14th street. Luckily, we have started the habit of always carrying a subway map with us, so even though we will perpetually look like tourists, we know (kind of) where we are going….unless its the weekend, of course.

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Drew and Anna’s Apartment from Drew Geraets and Vimeo.

On Saturday Anna and I explored the northern side of Central Park. There’s a number of cool trails and ponds to see. The highlight was certainly the Conservatory Garden at Fifth Avenue and 105th St. There are a ton of cool fountains and flowers to admire.

On our way home, we walked through Morningside Park, which was extremely busy with birthday parties and families grilling out. There’s a also a pond in Morningside that is absolutely chock full of turtles.

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We started our epic journey from Minnesota to New York City on Saturday, August 25, 2007. But the journey really started much earlier.

I reserved a 10-foot U-Haul online a few weeks prior to our move. I received a call the day before my requested reservation (Thursday) with a representative stating they would have a truck for me, but did not know where I would be able to pick it up.

That place turned out to be Wisconsin and I took home a 14-foot “Thrifty Mover.” U-Haul clearly states on their Web site that they reserve the right to upgrade the size of your truck at no additional cost based on availability, so the bigger truck was not a deal-breaker.

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