What a weekend. I am still catching my breath! I am a little sad its gone because I feel like I didn’t have time to really absorb and enjoy all of it. I don’t really remember what happened on specific days sort of. I will do my best to get everything in order.
Thursday: Natalie and Eliasib dropped me off at the train station so I could ride out to Porter Station near Somerville. I hadn’t taken the train into that station before and it was a really nice ride. The conductor took a special interest in me because I think he could tell I hadn’t ridden that route before. He would check up on me and let me know in advance before we got to my stop. Very nice of him. Bobby picked my up and took me home. Pretty ordinary night. I don’t remember too much, Bob, correct me if I am missing something.
Friday: Beautiful, beautiful day!! Bob had work; I slept in and worked on some school stuff. I also pierced my own ear on my left lobe, second hole. Wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be and I feel so accomplished.
We had a party that we had been invited to that night but I really wanted to watch the sun go down before we left. By the time we got our act together the sun was already going down so we scrambled to get out to Belmont to this hill thing where you can see pretty much the entire Boston skyline. I am an idiot and didn’t realize that the sunset would be BEHIND us but the sky was getting dark and the lights flickering from the skyscrapers in the distance could have given that sunset a run for its money in beauty. There was a playground there and we scampered around like children and swung on the swings until we got a little too cold. We returned home and met up with Tom, Jenny, Natalia, and Matt (yes?) to go together to the party. It was at some of Bob and Tom’s friends house in Arlington. V. pretty apartment. I have decided that my new hobby is going to parties where I don’t know anyone. Its actually kind of fun and there is really no pressure. I just get to be Bob’s arm ornament and smile and shake hands. Life is good. There were a lot of people crammed into such a small apartment (60+?) and I liked meeting a lot of Bob’s work friends.
Saturday: Slept in again. What a lucky girl I am. Bob & Tom had a brunch meeting with the scriptwriter for their
film. We stopped by the Bermani’s house to visit for a little bit and had lunch with Bob’s dad. It was delicious as usual. Bobby made me try on various motorcycle helmets and laughed at how ridiculous I looked. Later that night we drove back to my place and it began to snow again. It was a wet snow that wasn’t sticking, but it did make it difficult to see the road. I wanted to run to Target to by some hydrogen peroxide to clean my fresh ear piercing and we made it there just in time. There was a Chili’s next door so we dropped in around 11 to get some food. We were both pretty dead. The service is a little lacking that late at night so we built houses out of the drink coasters until our food arrived. This is easier said then done. We finally built one that was standing and the waitress knocked it over with Bob’s hamburger. Oh well. Went home, went to sleep in preparation for……….
"an amazing invention"
"a real step forward for engineering, and mankind as a whole."
SUNDAY!!!: NEW YORK CITY! I woke up at 5:30 (which I guess evened out all of those days of sleeping in..) and we arrived at the studio to leave with the Art Department. There was some confusion and we didn’t end up leaving until around 8:30. I was miffed, but these things happen and my good mood returned shortly. NYC is one place that I told myself I would NEVER EVER drive in. Life is funny and not only did I end up driving, but I was also the first car in our caravan of 3. I have never really been the leader of a driving group and I actually kind of liked it. The drive was whit and beautiful with fresh snow. I figured out how to manipulate the cars behind me if they cut Natalie off so they would pass me and not break the chain. Ha-ha. I had Bobby and Elib in my car and Elib got us the entire way there with no questions. What a sharp Mexican mind! New York is surprisingly easy to drive although I bet it would be much more difficult in rush hour traffic. Parking was insane at a $25 for 12 hours.
Hopped on the subway. I was a little slow and Bob got shut in the door of the car behind me. I was laughing pretty hard and then the train started and an old lady fell into my lap. Welcome to New York! We first went to
The Museum of Modern Art. Everyone sort of scattered off on their own since some of us had visited there before. Bob seemed to really enjoy it and I felt inspired as well. Lots of weird awesome stuff!
We saw a lot of really important pieces such as Picasso’s
Demoiselles d'Avignon, which was the forerunner for the Cubist movement. It is about prostitutes and violence. How nice.
We also saw Van Gogh’s Starry Night, which Bob was really excited about. I didn’t know that the original was at MoMa and I am still confused about that.
I finally saw an original Klimt, which was definitely a highlight for me. There were also a lot of really out there pieces, many of which were mixed media. That always makes me very happy. I think we both left inspired. Its hard NOT to be inspired in New York City.
We had day passes on the subway and although it is much more large and confusing that Boston’s system, we managed to find out way around pretty well for having no idea where we were going. People were always willing to help you get places too; no one was particularly rude to us at all. We found a Jamba Juice, which I have been craving for a few months now. Bobby had never been to the city before and I was sure he just needed to see the Statue of Liberty. I wanted to take him to the United Nations complex but there just wasn’t enough time in the day. We found Lady Liberty and walked along the water’s edge looking at her for awhile. There were street performers jumping over a pile of children and I gave them a dollar. It was a really gorgeous day.
I was craving Thai and we located a beautiful little restaurant a few miles away from the parking garage. I had pad thai (DUH!) and it was just a really good ending to our NYC day. We didn’t have a camera (except or my phone) so we have decided to go back to the city again for a weekend sometime and really explore more. I got us kind of lost on the way home, but Bob managed to find our way home anyways. We were both really exhausted. I am sure we walked around 7 miles total that day.
Life is an adventure.
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