After a very busy week Jen and I were looking forward to
going out Friday night… so we did laundry. We REALLY needed clean clothes and worked up quite the appetite while doing a few weeks worth of wash. The restaurant Spice (originally of the
West Village) recently opened another location in our very own LIC. We
decided to finally try it. Like Tuk Tuk, one of our favorite places to eat
on Vernon, Spice serves Thai food. We thought it was just ok. We shared a duck salad,
spare ribs, and a shrimp stir-fry with garlic sauce. It just wasn't very fresh or
tasty… needs more spice if you ask
us. Although their noodles might be amazing, which we didn't try, I think we’ll
be sticking with Tuk Tuk.
We left dinner with plenty of time to make it to Times
Square to see a movie, but got a little distracted by filming just outside of
Spice. Edie Falco was shooting her show Nurse Jackie and was like five feet
from us (obviously didn’t have my Canon with me as illustrated by the awful
quality of the pics). They were filming a scene in a cop car which was being
towed down Vernon Blvd. We debated skipping our movie because it was fun to
watch, but finally waved bye to her and headed to the train. We saw “The Perks
of Being a Wallflower” which was pretty good. I originally thought it was a
movie for teens but it had some pretty serious and depressing themes. It was
aiight.
Saturday night was Bourbon St’s annual Halloween Party. And I
can’t believe it’s my third one! Among my crazy coworkers in costume was a cow,
a zombie, red riding hood and wolf, Katniss from The Hunger Games, the news team
from Anchorman, farmer in the dell (a cowgirl in a Dell computer box), a nurse,
and an evil doctor (me!) Jen did an AMAZING job making my face look bloody and
gross. No one could believe we did it all ourselves. FYI: Corn syrup, red food coloring,
and cocoa powder make very realistic fake blood. And you can make fake wounds with toilet paper and Elmer's glue.
We both have the day off today and are just hanging out at
home, waiting for Hurricane Sandy to pass. So far (as of 4 pm) it’s not bad,
although I've seen some video online of flooding down at Gantry Park on the
water. I was supposed to observe an orthopedic surgery this morning at the
hospital and will not be happy if I don’t get assigned another one. Safety
first I guess.
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