Low points of DC/NY 2K4 trip:
-Creepy guys at H2O who don't get the hint.
-Flights with stupid layovers.
-Having $12 fall out of my pocket.
-Sam saying repeatedly "Mixin business with pleasure" in totally creepy voice followed by giggle/cackle.
Highlights of DC/NY 2K4 trip:
-EVERYTHING ELSE!
So I finllay made it back to the East Coast after three long years. I gotta say, it was great. Lisa and I went to DC to visit some of her friends from last summer. I'd never been there before so we checked out a lot of the sights. White house, capitol tour, Washington monument, Lincoln memorial, WWII memorial, sculpture garden, natural history museum. Plus shopping in Georgetown and a couple clubs. While I haven't been to all that many clubs lifetime, so far DC definitely has the nicest clubs. Even though the guys were mad skeezy at one of them, the space was still hella nice. They're big and clean and have nice places to sit and lots of bars. All clubs should be so nice. People have told me that I would really like DC and they were not wrong. There were a lot of places that felt sort of similar to parts of the Bay Area or other places I've been to, but some a little cleaner, a little more business casual. All in all it's definitely a place I'd like to go back to. One of the more memorable bits of DC was definitely the natural history museum and some x-rated animals. I won't get into it but I'll send you the pictures if you want. All I'm gonna say is that they're rather inappropriate for the throngs of children that pour through there daily.
After a couple days in DC we took the Chinatown bus to New York. Ahh New York. At some point on the plane to DC it hit me that I was gonna be back in New York and I was so excited. Since I've done most of the really touristy things all I really wanted to do was hang out with the friends and shop and eat steak cubes. The first night we had Korean food in Chinatown with all the Naascon people at the other end of the table that we didn't really talk to. Afterwards we split up and went to Sam's emo bar that was totally not emo at all where I did my first tequila shot. I was scared at first but it actually wasn't so bad. We moved on to a less emo, cooler bar where more drinking ensued. I was a little faded after the tequila shot, a beer, and stealing other people's beer, but it wasn't enough to wanna make drunk phone calls. (That and I had no service anyway!) Got to see Chrissy Turner for a quick second and had some crazy conversation with Sam and his friend Ross about fierce bangs and some other stuff I don't even remember. We called it a night and went back to Margot's cool upper westside (\x/!) apartment.
The next day was shopping (2 H&Ms in one day for the second time \m/) and Bombay Dreams (Salaam Bombay!) followed by steak cubes and drinking. I've been building up steak cubes in my mind (among other things..) for years now and I was sure that when I finally had them again they wouldn't live up to my hype and just be OK. But I was wrong. They were great.
The last day in New York will forever go down as Senior Cut day. I managed to get Margot, Sam and Jorge to ditch work (though I think it was Jorge's idea) and we had yummy brunch and saw Napoleon Dynamite. (Heck yes.) Then it was a mad dash up town, then back down to Chinatown, then hours and hours of travel.
All in all it was definitely a really good trip and I was sad to come back. I'm always sad to leave New York. But since Lisa will be living out there I'm sure I'll be back again some time in the next ten months. Ahh New York, how I miss thee. Someday we'll meet again.
(See also Lisa's blog for random highlights.)
