The first stop we made once in the city was Google. I signed (well, electronically agreed to) an NDA that I probably should've read before clicking yes on, but I was told it essentially says I can't tell you anything about the inside. Other than the fact that it's awesome. You all missed out on so much! Aren't you jealous now? Now you'll all need to get your own friends who work at Google so you can visit them.
Anyway. Hunter and Ben and some Googlers and I went out to dinner at Paradou. It was awesome - the kind of restaurant I totally love. We were in a partially outdoor courtyard, cozy, low lights, long table, lots of silverware and glasses and wine, delicious gourmet food and desserts. It started to thunderstorm pretty badly, which was fun, and Googlers make for very interesting and stimulating conversational partners. Who apparently all love foie gras. Who knew?
Breakfast the next morning at The Grey Dog, if only to prove what hipster yuppies we all are. Big, crowded, noisy breakfast that was actually really well-made, if only they had given me more apple juice. Then onto the American Museum of Natural History, which is totally cool. I love dinosaurs, but I could've done without all the stuffed birds and mammals. The minerals room, as promised, was awesome, and housed an 82 Carat black diamond. Sheesh. It was loaned to the museum by "Anonymous", which for some reason confused the hell out of Ben for a few moments.
Cara joined us at the museum for a pretty, although (as Hunter put it) not very intellectually stimulating, Planetarium showing. Then we got some quick food at Shake Shack before going back to Hunter's apartment. To escape the heat, and to get delicious tea and dinner, we went to Think Coffee with some board games and stayed there until closing playing Munchkin and Carcassonne. Beer, grilled cheese and cheesecake were had. Fun was had, too.
The next morning, we went on a tour of the Atlantic Ave tunnel in Brooklyn, a tunnel which housed the first subway system (of a sort). It was closed off and only rediscovered a couple of decades ago. It's half a mile long, and dark and scary, but thankfully cool. The tour was interesting and related the scandalous history of the tunnel.
Honest to god, I will never complain about Boston heat ever again. Boston is positively cool and breezy right now compared to New York City!
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I went to NYC this weekend to see Modest Mouse, and it got canceled 4 songs in due to T-storms. Then I came back upstate to go to the Saratoga racetrack where I ate at the Shake Shack installment there. You thought that was hot, you should have gone to visit June and Sean in South Carolina!
Aww, that sucks! They were probably the very same thunderstorms that I was loving at Paradou. =P All I had at the Shake Shack was an order of fries. But my friends' burgers and hot dogs looked great. I didn't realize it was a chain...
Yeah, I'm hoping to visit Sean and June when they are (A) back up in the north and (B) it is Autumn. I don't do well in heat!
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