First Weekend of Spring!

It has been absolutely beautiful here for the past few days! Because of this, a lot of fun new things have happened.

First, unrelated to the weather, Victoria moved to NYC! She has been staying with me for a few days while she is trying to find an apartment. It has been great having her here and getting to hang out. I've gone to look at a few apartments with her and it has been interesting to get a feel for some of the different areas of Manhattan. Finding an apartment is a pain in the ass though, so I'm grateful for where I live. I keep telling Claire that I am never leaving! :-)

On Friday, Claire suggested that we go have a picnic in the park since the weather was so nice. Prospect Park is actually really close to where we live so we were able to just walk there. We wandered around in the park for awhile looking for a good spot to set up our picnic. We ended up sitting on a hillside under a tree. Claire packed a great picnic with french bread, cheese, grapes, bananas, and cream cheese. It was a wonderful afternoon! The weather was absolutely beautiful, although the wind got a little chilly, there were a lot of people out so we got to people watch, and it was just a glorious afternoon.

On our way back to the apartment we walked through the Windsor Terrace neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is a really cute quaint area. We stopped and got ice cream on our walk back. Birthday cake ice cream is super yummy!

Yesterday was a pretty lazy day. I tried to get some reading done for class and Victoria went apartment hunting. We weren't really planning on doing anything exciting but at about 9pm Claire came in to invite us out to a bar in the LES. Claire hardly ever goes out and it took a little convincing but Victoria and I decided to go. We went out with Claire and Charlie and met up with a bunch of their friends. Charlie's friend is a bartender at the bar we went to, so we were able to get in for a discounted cover charge. It was an interesting place. They made a really good drink that was vodka apple cider with actual chunks of apple in it. Claire, Victoria, and I danced for awhile to some interesting music. It was not your typical club-scene music. It was "middle-eastern-inspired electronic" according to Victoria :-) We had fun dancing. We ended up leaving a little before 2am. All in all it was a fun night.

Today we are planning to go to the Brooklyn flea market in a little bit. This evening Charlie is throwing a BBQ and invited a bunch of people. I'm really looking forward to that. At some point though, I need to squeeze some reading time in. Luckily I don't have class until 6pm on Monday so I can finish that reading assignment tomorrow if I can't do it today.