After seeing a little of my neighborhood, Sunnyside, I took Jen to see Long Island City. We walked Vernon Ave, ate at Communitea, and relaxed for a bit at Gantry Plaza Park. LIC is my first choice because of church and friends and the short commute to work and school so I was really trying to sell it.
Naturally, Jen wanted to do a little shopping so we headed to SOHO and then for some, according to my f-i-l, traditional St. Joseph’s Day sweets in Little Italy. We bought some amazing Zeppoles at the famous Ferrara’s Bakery and Café then got out of that tourist trap ASAP.
Some of my coworkers recommended checking out Greenpoint, Brooklyn as a future neighborhood but it lacked LIC’s feel of community and was a disappointment. We stopped at the Sage General Store for a snack on the way back (pic). It seems like all we did was eat but with all that walking you get hungry!
Friday night was a lot of fun and I’m glad Jen got to meet some of my friends. We all went to dinner at El Ay Si, walked to the water to see the skyline, and had gelato at Manducatis. Yum! Friend’s obviously want us in LIC and made sure to repeatedly use words like community, family, and neighborhood to plant the subconscious seed with Jen, ha. Around two in the morning I woke up to a mouse rustling in my trash can which ran away and into my roommate’s room. That made sleeping for the next two nights pretty light ha, but it turns out Thierry trapped it around 6 this morning. If only there was just one mouse.
Saturday we took the Metro North Train to White Plains to visit some family. We watched the wedding video with them which was actually the first time I had seen the full version too. I loved it, but prefer the short trailer to reliving every minute.
By that evening I think we really wanted to get home and crash but decided to take my roommate and his girlfriend to Park Slope, Brooklyn and meet some FSU friends for dinner. The hour commute from door to door was worth it because of Cocoa bar… oh, and the good company. This place was a wine/ coffee/ and dessert bar and everything was incredible. Go there!
This morning, sadly, Jen took a car to the airport as I headed to work. The brunch crowd is always fun and pretty lucrative but after little sleep and serving a hundred Mimosas and Bloody Mary's, I was pooped. Final pic: me heading home from work and looking forward to doing NOTHING for a few hours.
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