lost on the subway..

Today I actually was able to sleep in until there were really loud sirens outside. It was nice to sleep til 11 since i haven't had much sleep lately. Andrew and I went out last night for Sangria on Bleecker St. I never caught the name of the place, but Andrew knows it, so I'll have to ask him. It was nice to go out and do something at night. This truly is the city that never sleeps. There were people everywhere at 2:30 am!

After getting ready I walked to Chelsea to figure out where MSLO is located. After sitting by the Hudson River for a few minutes I decided to call Robin and go to the Brooklyn Bridge. It was such a nice day here so the walk across was amazing! Kind of scary though because you could see all of the cars below you since the walkway was boardwalk style. I'm super glad we did it. Next time I hope to go to Grimaldi's Pizza at the end. Supposedly that is Frank Sinatra's favorite pizza place.

Getting to the bridge was quite difficult for me. I actually took 3 wrong trains trying to get there. I was frustrated but my confidence was brought back up tonight when I knew where I was at when I saw the Trader Joe's and was able to get Andrew and I back to my apartment at 4am. I hope more of this will happen as the trip goes on.

Coming back to the apartment I had to quickly get ready and then meet up with Andrew for dinner with some friends from Washu. We went to Mama Mexico for dinner. It was decent but super super pricey. Let me put it this way, $40 for a pitcher of margaritas....I decided to opt out.

From there we went to McSorley's Old Ale House. It was a lot of fun. It was a traditional Irish Pub that had great house beer....definitely my favorite place so far. We then went to HiFi and it was okay...not many people were there. One of the Mathletes from Mean Girls was there. He must attend NYU. All of the places we went to were in the Lower East Side near NYU, so all of the bars were college bars. After HiFi, we traveled to the Beauty Bar which was essentially an early 80's bar with crazy decor. Very punkish and there were old hair dryers as seats. Quite amusing...the people were too! The carded at the door, since I'm a cool 21-yr old now I can actually go places and show them mine. The bouncer guy actually didn't believe it was real. I had to whip out my awesome Maryville ID, but I don't think he believed that either. IL just got new ID cards and it looks really fake. I hope this doesn't turn into a problem this summer. No one has seen this type so they look super funny.

After all of this, we then decided to get pizza...do you know how hard it is to find pizza at 3am on a Wednesday night? Well we did, it was really good. I look forward to the Grimaldi's mentioned above.

Well, now that it is 4:20am and I'm safe back in my apartment, I will be waking up at 5:30 am for the Regis and Kelly Show. I know I mentioned the Today Show in an earlier post, but we decided to go the this one instead because they have the same guests and my roommate's friend is an intern there.

Tonight was the best night of them all, I am super glad i was able to hang out with some familiar faces. We have plans later this week.

Happy early Thursday!

<3 Sam