When in Rome...or NEW YORK!

I'm going to try and avoid writing the epic entry that I could about the past week and instead leave you with my list of events that occurred that could only happen in New York City:
(Forgive the terrible grammar that will probably follow while I try and remember everything...)

-A free Bret Michaels and Miley Cyrus Concert, courtesy of Good Morning America, at 7 am in Central Park. As much as I don't want to say this, I was pretty pumped when they sang Every Rose. Honestly, when else would this ever happen? FOR FREE?
-A trip to Magnolia's Bakery to have an orange-pineapple cupcake with cream cheese frosting. Mmmmm.
-Pizza by the slice in the West Village before tracking down a movie set and then stalking it for hours. (The film was Something Borrowed starring Kate Hudson)
-Dinner with the girls on the Upper East side
-An encounter with several ambulances and a cherry picker and wondering if someone is going to jump...only to realize it is yet another TV set.
-A trip to the beach in Brooklyn followed by a trip to Coney Island where none other than the famous "Mermaid Parade" was taking place. Basically this is like Mardi Gras for people who want to dress like fish and mermaids...and call it "art." In the pictures below you will see signs from some of the preachers who showed up. Apparenlty that doesn't only happen in Oklahoma!
-A visit to the original Nathans for hot dogs :)
-Adventures in Chinatown for bargain shopping
-Lunch while overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge
-Sitting on the steps of the Met with your friend while imagining Blair and Serena doing the same ;)
-Amazing Chinese food for half the price of anything else in the Upper East side
-Seeing Van Gogh's Starry Night (for free) at the Museum of Modern Art

(Let me add that all of this was with one of my best friends from home and some new great friends in NYC...couldn't get much better!)

And the icing on the cake was the Yankees/Mets game on Sunday...just being in the stadium alone was amazing..but finding out our seats were right behind home plate about 20 rows up...unbelievable. Didn't even mind the pouring rain in the 7th inning..it definitely added to the experience. There is something magical about the Yankees, despite the fact that I normally have a soft spot for the underdogs...(sorry Case!)

And finally..topping off the weekend in Washington Square Park followed by dinner in the East Village and a night visit to Times Square.

Holy Cow. I'm worn out just re-reading that.

That was all last weekend. Tonight I went with the girls to the Film Forum in Soho. It is an incredibly awesome little theater that screens old films and independent ones. We saw Breathless, which was obviously wonderful. I fell in love with that film all over again. And I just love the fact that on a random Wednesday night, there was a decent crowd at this little theater celebrating this wonderful film.

Only in the City :)


















So my HTML coding skills are failing a bit-but that picture above the one of Miley and Bret is over the movie set! And the statue is Alice in Wonderland from Central Park. And the man on home plate-well, I'm sure you know who that is!



Might I add-this is also the same city where you can discover mysterious blood has dripped on your friend in the subway..creepy? Yes. Also in the subway you can find yourself pulling away from the platform while staring back at your friend who got left behind. Gotta be aggressive!



PS.I'm starting to get really excited when people stop me on the street and ask for directions. Hopefully by the end of the summer I'll actually be able to help them!