an. Somehow 6 of us from our sorority/college days managed to all meet in the city. Given the crazy schedules that everyone lives I was greatful to have some quality face time with my friends....knowing that people live in different parts of the country that may not happen again for a while. Its funny how life takes people in different directions, literally and figuratively. All of the following people that partook in the weekend festivities and that I'm about to list I went to undergrad with and we are all friends from our Sorority: Emily has been living and working in NY for the last two years. Given that she loves the NY lifestyle and has a great boyfriend, she plans to stay here for a while longer. Meghan goes to Law school at UW and is here for the summer interning at a law firm. She is fabulous and wonderful but as a side note she lived in a different sorority in college...one would never know or care about the difference now. Laurie goes to Med school (4th and final year!) at USC and was also here doing an internship at a hospital. I like that Laurie is adventerous and always down for anything. Ashley lives in Boston and came down to hang out for the weekend. She says Boston is the Seattle of the West Coast so I plan to check it out before I leave. Always a great friend, Ingen came all the way from Seattle to see her girls and check out life in Manhattan. As she called Manhattan a chaotic shit-show, I think 3 days was enough for her:) We ate at a great Italian restaurant in Alphabet City in the Easy Village (I got lost getting there). Its weird how there are sub-areas of neighborhoods......we also went to a great bar that I don't remember the name of. We also made it out to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island which was on my list of things to do. It was a whole day ordeal and w
e spend most of it waiting in line. I really liked Ellis Island, however we didn't spend a lot of
time there so I plan to go back at th
e end of August when Matt comes to visit. He's a history buff amongst other things. I plan to search through the database to find my grandfather's name and information. I'm going armed with a copy of the original documentation that recorded my grandfather's entrance to the U.S. through Ellis Island. My aunt brought the copy with her when she came to visit this last weekend and I realized why I didn't find his name the first time I was there: his last name was spelled Augoustinos, not Augustinos like I thought this whole time (meaning my whole life!). Its neat and interesting to trace family roots.
This last weekend 8 of my relatives and 2 family friends came to visit me and check out the Big City. We went to some great restaurants including BLT Steak and Tao. Both restaurants are Manhattan hot spots as indicated by their geographic location (Upper East Side on Park and Madison) and the crowds that gather there. Tao is an Asian fusion restaurant frequented by celebrities. Asian Fusion is the hot thing here...the food was great at Tao but I think Seattle has much better Asian food in general. For desert, Tao gave chocolate fortune cookies with fortunes that read "Prepare for a tease" and "Those who say 'yes' have more fun".....yes they do. (Gosh, blogging makes you thirsty....hold on)... Anyway, the personal highlight of the weekend for me was watching my first-ever Broadway sh
ow; actually I saw two and I have to say that I am officially a Broadway junkie!!!! I'm in love with Broadway shows......they are absolutely amazing entertainment and worth the price. I saw Legally Blond and Wicked. Watching them made me almost want to become a singing, dancing, acting broadway star:) I'm going to try to go to a couple more while here.
Having visitors has been fun and made me realize what I usually realize on the weekends....that visiting New York is more fun than actually living in New York. Maybe because you can enjoy all the excitement and fun that the city has to offer without having to deal with the everyday ordeal of hard-core city living........
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