First Semester- Only in New York Moments!

As we end our first semester let us reflect on our ONLY in New York moments!

-Reading The Post on the subway as a story for The Post is in the making.
The Post

-Realizing that, in an emergency, the most helpful neighbors would be those located in the local (downstairs) bar.

-On one subway trip we would experience the following: a fantastic guitar player, a ten minute sermon on "Crack to Christ". Switch trains. See the world's saddest clown lost trying to climb the stairs with extra long shoes (had to go kind of sideways). Get on the train. A father explaining to his five year old son what every subway line means in NYC. Then see our guitar player again.

-Best kept NYC secret... Halloween is bigger than New Years!

-When walking down the street hear a kid yell from his apartment the Yankees score to his friend across the street.

-Met a guy named Chris the Butcher. Asked him for some fish.

-Stairs would become my worst enemy yet I can't avoid them.

-See a world premiere avant garde opera by guy who wrote music for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and experience an uncomfortable audience response as people leave in throngs, clap with great disappointment yet the composer keeps coming out for an encore. Expect to hear goatee-sporting guy and his intellectual-looking date next to us to rant and rave about how great it was but instead hear them whisper, "Well that sure sucked."
Tan Dun

-See a world premiere short film with hoola-hooping dancers about an expressway with a full orchestra rockn' out in sequence to the movie and dancers. Amazing!
Sufjan Stevens.

-Honk your horn receive a $250.00 ticket. Oh, wait...there's another honking driver outside my window!

-We've screamed like an eight year olds because:
The Arcade Fire show on Randall's Island was a jump around good time with city lights as their background.
Arcade Fire

-The Macy's parade balloons really do fly through the city streets on Thanksgiving.

-New York at Christmas Battles
"The Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical" vs. "The Radio City Christmas Spectacular"
Rockefeller Christmas Tree vs. All the other amazing trees
Christmas window tourist gazers vs. New Yorkers who need to Christmas shop

Russian Extraveganza!

What a day! Chad and I had an amazing experience that took place in our own backyard! That's what we love about NYC. A friend from NYU treated a group of us to a day of Russian culture. His family moved to NYC from Russia when he was nine. Our day started by going to a bath house. There were several different sauna rooms and a cold pool. The idea is that you sweat-it-out in a sauna then jump in the cold pool. Wakes you up! People also had Oak branches that were soaked in water that would then be used to hit people with. Interesting scene.

Then we headed toward Brighten Beach (located in Brooklyn) for dinner. Little did we know that dinner would be a Russian style Las Vegas show with techno-music pumpn' out Russian tunes! Lots of vodka. Excellent food!

Our restaurant was located down a residential street. An man dressed in a military uniform checked out our dress before entering.

Latin-Russian techno! Packed dance floor!

Smoke machines, water walls and a cross-dressing MC turned the little restaurant into a ragen' scene.

First Snow!

Every neighborhood is decorated! All the trees are a glow! P.S. 93 is gearing-up for their holiday show! BUT TEARS no snow!
SUNDAY we woke to an old familiar sound of our youth! Someone scraping the sidewalk to get every snowflake off! People were fired-up about the snow! In Prospect Park the kids were trying their hardest to sled. Still a little brown in some areas!

Seattle and D.C. Visitors!

Fabulous familiar faced folk rolled through town!