Weekend Recap...

I don't know about you guys but I had a pretty sweet little weekend. It all started off Friday night with my parents taking Justin and I out for Portuguese food out -- They literately were like "Hey, wanna go out for dinner?" and I was like "Hell yes!" because I never say no to Portuguese food.

Fast forward to Saturday. I spent the day hanging out with Erin and Day shopping and then heading into New York City to attend a watch party for the Toyota Bluegrass Stakes, which was so much fun!

We had a blast all dressed up with big hats on drinking bourbon, listening to a live bluegrass band and watching the horse races at Jack Demsey's thanks to America's Best Racing-- Thank you again Dan and Victoria for inviting us!

Once the big race was done the girls and I headed over to 530 Fifth (Which if you don't know, is this amazing roof top bar with a killer view of the Empire State Building) to hang out and have a few more drinks.

We BSed, people watched and drank for a while before deciding that we should probably head back to Long Island.

Unfortunately not really we didn't make it to Penn Station on time and had sometime to kill before heading back, so we did what we had been doing all day long. Stopped at a Penn Station bar and had more drinks before heading home.

After recovering from Saturday's events Sunday morning (Surprise surprise, I woke up with a headache), Justin and I did a little food shopping and then headed to one of the little towns near us to have a little day date.

We checked out a local antique shop, where I walked too close to a picture and the framed ended up breaking. Thankfully they didn't charge me for it because it was obviously their fault for putting it where they did. We wandered around the over priced store for a little longer and then headed out to walk around the town.

We did a little window shopping, eyed up the local restaurant scene, took silly pictures next to a mural, etc.

Since it started to get a little windy we decided to go for lunch at the restaurant we had our most recent anniversary dinner at. Unfortunately when got there they informed us that they weren't actually open until 2:00pm, so we had to kill an hour.

We walked a little more and then decided to just go to the bar next to where we wanted to eat to have a few drinks. Surprisingly we had a blast at the bar because the chick bar tending was awesome.

After drinking a little more than I should have (Hey, I wasn't the one who drove), we walked next door to have lunch.

And can I tell you, lunch was amazing. We both shared a bunch of food and ate ourselves into slight food comas. It was so great. I honestly cannot wait until we go again because I flipping love this place -- I am currently trying to figure out how to get Justin back there soon.

After we finished our delicious food we went home. It was just the prefect end to a sweet little weekend.

Belated Birthday Dinner...

While Justin and I were away on the rafting trip last weekend Justin grandfather celebrated his birthday and since we weren't around for all of the family stuff we took his grandparents out for an early dinner today (We always end up having dinner at 4:00pm when we go out with them).

They requested that we go to an Italian restaurant that neither Justin or I had ever heard of, but that was fine with us because we were glad they had deviated from the normal handful of restaurants that they tend frequent. Plus the place we ended up at was excellent. Everything we ate was wonderful and Justin's grandparents really enjoyed themselves which is all that really mattered.

After dinner Justin's grandmother insisted on going to her local Italian bakery and buying pastries for us to have for dessert. Justin and I went in with her, picked out what we wanted and then we headed back to their house to watch the Mets game and have coffee and dessert.

It was a really nice afternoon. I love spending time with his grandparents.

Photo An Hour...

9:00am - My first cup of coffee this fine morning.

10:00am - Print out of the directions to get to a lunch meeting on the island.

11:00am - Driving to the meeting.

12:00pm - The lunch they served at the meeting.

1:00pm - Coffee and dessert!

2:00pm - Books I won at the meeting.

3:00pm - Had to get gas.

4:00pm - The bag I ordered from a local shop & it came in!

5:00pm - Wine time!

6:00pm - Going through my friend's jewelry and finding matching pieces.

7:00pm - Organizing DVDs to pack away for the move.

Off Duty Librarian's Weekend...

This was the first full weekend I've had off in a few weeks and I had a lot of things to do in it. Here is what I did...

Saturday: I slept in until about 10:00am, got up and proceeded to get ready for the various events I had to attend throughout the course of the day. Once I was dolled up I headed over to Justin's apartment so that we could get some lunch and then head over to his cousin's house for her graduation party.

The graduation party was painfully boring. Not one conversation had throughout the course of the party could make up for how much it sucked, there was no music or anything, etc. Even the fact that "Favorite Volunteer #2" was there could make up for how much that party blew, and he typically amuses me whenever he is around -- If you're wonder, he was there because they were each others prom dates.

After suffering through a brief period of time at the party (We only stayed two hours) we headed over to our friend's house so we could go into New York City and go to Eataly. As soon as we got to their house we were thrown into yet another family party. But unlike the other one it didn't suck. We hung around the house for about an hour before finally leaving.

Walking into Eataly we were all slapped in the face with total sensory overload. It was glorious. It was filled with so many things we didn't know where to go first or what to look at (I actually lost Justin on more than one occasion because there were so many places to go and tons of people there). Eventually we made our way to La Piazza after making a reservation to go to the rooftop bar Birreria. At La Piazza we waited around until we could sneak over to a table to sample various Italian meats, cheeses and wine -- It was all awesome. I obviously didn't eat the meat, but everyone else said it was great.

When we finished up our wine and cheese my friend mentioned gelato and Justin got super excited, so we headed over to the Gelateria and got the best gelato I've ever had (And I had gelato in Italy). We went and had espresso, bought some food to bring home and eventually we got a text message saying our table was ready at Birreria. By the time we got the text we were all full, but we had to head to the roof to check out the bar. The boys had a few drinks, my friend's girlfriend and I soaked up the atmosphere and then we eventually left.

If you have a chance to visit Eataly I would totally recommend it.

Sunday: Justin and I slept in, got up, blah blah blah... After doing various morning/afternoon routines we decided to take the food we bought the night before and have a picnic at one of the local parks. We went, had a nice lunch, went to the batting cages, etc. It was a fun afternoon.

After leaving the park we went to the cemetery where my grandparents are buried so that I could plant new flowers -- The flowers that I had planted in previous years were recently killed when they had to dig up a near by grave to bury someone, because they threw the dirt on my grandparent's grave. I planted the new flowers, had a conversation with my grandmother and headed over to visit some of Justin's relatives that are buried there also.

Eventually we headed back to Justin's apartment where I ended up passing out during the Mets game. When I woke up I decided to go home because I promised Erin and Nicole we all watch the season premiere of True Blood -- Which was awesome.

I did a lot more than I had been doing in previous weekends and I had a great time. Next weekend in Fourth of July weekend and I've got a bunch of things planned for that. I'll let you all know how that goes.