Monday, January 07, 2008

Christmas in NYC Day 2

Friday morning, we hailed a cab and went up to Harlem. There's an outdoor flea market there that we wanted to check out. We arrived around 11:00 and it was just opening up. We decided to go have lunch and come back.


On the way to eat, we popped into a shoe store where Mooey bought 2 pairs of shoes for $10!

Right down from the shoe store was the restaurant we wanted to check out. Amy Ruth's boasts genuine Southern home cooking. We've always poopooed this place because we are from the South and we can get home cooking everyday of the week.


I ordered honey dipped fried chicken with mac and cheese and cabbage. Look under the chicken, that's honey. Words cannot express the goodness that is on that plate. The mac and cheese is hands down the best I've ever had. Ever. All of it was divine.

And, as if that wasn't enough, we ordered banana pudding. She brought it out in this giant bowl. OMG! We could only eat half of it.
We wanted to go by the Apollo while we were in Harlem so we walked the 10 blocks.

It was a little dissappointing to say the least. On TV, it looks really big and cool. In person, it's really tiny and not much to look at.

We saw this graffiti on a truck while walking and I had to take a picture of it.

We shopped at the flea market some and then headed back to the apartment. We were going over to a friend's house at 5:00 for drinks.

We had Paul draw us a map of bars from his house back to the apartment. We wanted to go bar hopping. The first place was called Dive Bar. How appropriate.
We ordered 2 Patron Silver's chilled. From the size of these, the bartender's arm got tired pouring these.

The party was officially started.

Then we ordered Don Julio Tequila. They were much smaller thank God.

The end of our Yeunglings.

We were famished so we went next door to Famiglia pizza and got a couple of slices. They saved my life. We walked the 10 or blocks home and sobered up a little.

So much for bar hopping.

Christmas in NYC Day 1

Our first morning began with breakfast at our favorite diner, Pier 72. The same waitress has waited on us every time I've ever been there and she has the thickest Bronx accent. This year she wanted to know where her ribs were!



We caught a cab to 5th Avenue. Here's St. Patrick's Cathedral.


Self portrait in front of the grossly huge Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center.


Ice rink.
Then we entered the building to go to the top.


$20 later we went up 67 floors in the elevator. I took less than a minute. They had a little light show as we went up.


Once we got off the elevator, they made us pose for a picture in hopes we would bu it. We did.The view was stunning.


We caught a cab to Little Seoul/Koreatown for lunch.


We settled on Korean BBQ. They sat us down and we ordered ribeye and pork. They opened up the table and put in wood and then put the meat on. It cooked right in front of us.




After eating, we went shoe shopping in Herald's Square. I bought a pair of shoes and then we caught a cab back to the apartment. It was time for a little nap before dinner with Mooey's parents.


We headed to Amsterdam for dinner at La Vela.

I ordered the linguine with shrimp with pesto. It was terrible. It was like Chef Boyardee or something. Everyone's food was bad. The wine and company however were great.

Thursday, January 03, 2008

University of Memphis Tigers

Saturday, the 29th, we met at the Blue Monkey. Bacon and Meredith had watched our cats over Christmas and we had presents for them. Mooey had procured tickets to the big game at the Forum and we were having pregame beers.

We arrived on Beale Street around 8:30. It was crazy. The Liberty Bowl had just finished and there were football fans everywhere.

Mooey had tickets on the 10th row, but my mother had friends on the 3rd row. There were 2 empty seats next to her so we sat there. As you can see, we were super close.

Then the lights went out.

Cheerleaders!$8 beer.
Derrick Rose shooting a free throw.

Weenie had dropped us off so after the 3rd quarter we called her and she came and scooped us. We went to meet everyone at Mary's. There we were treated to a Karn dance to Fleetwood Mac. Please notice the video screen in the background.

It was dead at Mary's so we returned to the Monkey. Ryan Peel was playing and he's awesome!

While we were there, we were surprised to see Justin! He used to be in Breaking Point but has since left and is now with 12 Stones. They just got off tour with Daughtry and are heading out soon with 3 Doors Down. He's such a nice guy and we haven't seen him in a while. Weenie used to work with him.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

New York

See ya later! Mooey and I are heading to New York City today until the 25th. Don't miss me too much!