Lisa's Vineyard Hopping Birthday

Over the weekend we celebrated Lisa's thirty-second birthday by hitting up a couple of vineyards in the Hudson River Valley here in New York.

We started off the afternoon by meeting up at Lisa and Andrew's house in Westchester and then driving up about an hour to Nostrano Vineyard, where Andrew had made a reservation for the eight of us to do the wine tasting (Which included seven of the estate wines) and eat lovely charcuterie board.

When we were done with our tasting we decided to go sit outside and enjoy the prefect weather. 

While we were outside we drank more, ate another (bigger) charcuterie board and just enjoyed each other's company. It was honestly the epitome of #WeekendVibes.

At some point while we were just hanging out, a staff member rudely informed us that a private event would be starting at 5:00pm. So we decided to leave and go check out Benmarl Winery and Vineyard, which was only fifteen minutes away from where we were.

While at Benmarl we ordered a few bottles of wine and a couple of pizzas, and just enjoyed the view (Which was spectacular) and each other's company.

Eventually we decided it was time to pack it up and end our lovely day because four out of the eight of us had to drive back to Long Island.

It was honestly the prefect day to do what we did. And aside from the rude employee at Nostrano we had an amazing day hanging out and celebrating the birthday girl.

Month In Review: February 2018

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MONTH

♥ Celebrating mine and Justin's fifteen year dating anniversary.
♥ Visiting Lisa, Andrew and Luna at their house with my sister and Nick.
♥ Spending a random Sunday just bullshitting, eating and drinking with Day, Toni and Liz.
♥ Having a mini Super Bowl party at Toni and Tom's house.
♥ Seeing Alma and Chady even though the circumstances surrounding their visit sucked.
♥ Booking brunch and an escape room for my upcoming birthday.
♥ Hashing out some details for Bianca's sweet sixteen.
♥ Discussing future vacation plans with Justin.

INSTAGRAM 

 NEW TO ME THIS MONTH

MOVIES

The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

COMEDY SPECIALS

Chris Rock: Tamborine (2018)

Dave Chappelle: The Bird Revelation (2017)

Dave Chappelle: Equanimity (2017)

TELEVISION SHOWS

The Assassination of Gianni Versace (2017)

The Good Place (2016 - Present)

Ink Master: Angels (2017 - Present)

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015 - Present)

PODCASTS

Horny 4 Horror

Life, Death & Tarot

Month In Review: June 2016...

♥ Justin getting us tickets to see Hamilton on Broadway before Lin-Manuel Miranda left the show.
♥ Seeing Beyoncé at Citi Field with my sister.
♥ Random evenings in with my friends.
♥ Spending an awesome Father's Day with my family.
♥ Celebrating Andrew's 30th birthday.
♥ Finally getting to the beach.
♥ Having a dinner date with Phil.
♥ Buying tickets to see Hamilton on Broadway again next spring.
♥ Being told a very awesome secret that I can't share just yet.
♥ Planning parties with my friends.

♥ Twenty-Nine On The 29th | My Sister's Birthday Weekend

♥ Mexican Food & A Concert | Beyoncé At Citi Field
♥ The Story Of Wednesday Night | Hamilton On Broadway
♥ Life Update | Personal & Library Life

 

♥ Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) ♥

♥  Princess Mononoke (1997) ♥

♥ Against The Grain (2016 - Present)  ♥

♥ 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) ♥
♥ Vintage Flip (2016 - Present) ♥
♥ American Gothic (2016 - Present) ♥

Twenty-Nine On The 29th | My Sister's Birthday Weekend...

So aside from being Memorial Day weekend this past weekend, it was also my sister's birthday weekend and as you can probably guess, we did a whole bunch of celebrating.

My sister's birthday weekend celebration started on Saturday evening with twenty people (Yup, you read that right... We were rolling twenty people deep) bar hopping locally here on Long Island. We hit up a few bars until we found one that had a DJ playing good music and we just danced for hours.

Eventually we got tired of dancing and decided to move along to another bar, where the crowd that was left had a few drinks before someone asked me to convince my sister that it would be a good idea to go to the local diner for a very late night snack. As you can probably guess it wasn't a very hard thing to do, all I did was say bacon a few times and she was totally in the mood for diner food.

We made our way to the diner where we had the nastiest waitress ever (I was dead sober so I can honestly tell you, she was a miserable old lady) who was totally mean to us, but the majority of the group was drunk so they didn't notice.

After eating our over priced diner food ($9.75 for six mozzarella sticks?!?!!) I drove my sister, her boyfriend, Toni and Amanda all home and didn't get into my own be until about 4:30AM.

Sunday was her actual birthday. So after spending the morning recovering from the evening before at our respective apartments, we met up at our parents' house with our significant others and went out for an early dinner at a local seafood place.

After filling up on our early dinner, we headed back to our parents' house to relax and digest before diving into her cake (Which thankfully wasn't a chocolate chocolate chocolate cake because that's what she normally gets and I hate super chocolatey cakes).

Over all it was an extremely successful birthday weekend with no drama (Well I hide the one bit of drama from my sister so she wouldn't freak out -- Her ex-boyfriend left a message on my Facebook status about being at the first bar that I had to delete so my sister and her current boyfriend wouldn't see it) and she really enjoyed herself, which is all that I care about.

Lisa & Andrew's Wedding In Photos...

Last week my cousin Lisa got married and here are some of the random pictures I took...

It was a beautiful wedding and we all had a great time, which is why there aren't more pictures. I was too busy drinking her signature drink, a jalapeno margarita, and dancing to take pictures. But I will leave you with this gem from their PHHHOTO booth...

Studio Square In Instagram...

Last night Justin and I went into Queens to meet up with a bunch of my college friends at Studio Square because one of them just got back from living in Israel for almost a year and a half and obviously we all needed to go out drinking. Here is some of the incriminating evidence from last night via Instagram...