Happy Birthday, America!
Ξ July 4th, 2008 | → 23 Comments | ∇ BrittCon, travel |
Hope you all enjoy celebrating the birth of our country. I love Independence Day and consider it one of my favorite holidays (this coming from a girl who can have like ten “best” friends so don’t hold me to the “favorite” thing, k?).
Because my birthday is July 5th I have always been fond of “my new year’s eve’” and tend to celebrate kinda hard. I love a good party and I love fireworks bringing in my birthday. This year it might rain here in Pittsburgh and I have no idea what they will do about the fireworks. Will it still be my birthday if I don’t get fireworks announcing it? Well of course it will.
I started the celebration by heading to NYC for BrittCon last weekend, dinner with Tinkle Twat on Monday and going to my “slap my ass before every ball” bowling league on Tuesday. Wednesday was kinda low key and Thursday was drinks after work. So yeah, my birthday week has started off well and will finish strong with a party on Saturday and a birthday party on Sunday. I’m good!
About that NYC trip. Karl and Britt are recapping MUCH better than I am. Should you desire to read the funny parts of the adventure, head over to their sites. Not sure what Cissa will have in store when she returns from her Cape vacation, but I am sure she will also do a recap better than me. Not sure how much more Dawg and Poppy will write, no clue what Robin will eventually put up.
Regardless, all you are gonna get here at the Cliff are photos…like that one up at the start of today’s post. I took that while on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building. Hope you don’t mind my less than stellar photography skills. Heck, half the time I was so busy soaking up The City that sometimes I even forgot about the camera.
So, here we go in a mostly chronological order…
(day 1 in a park across from the hotel…can you see how happy we are to just BE in New York City?)
(Grand Central Station and the Chrysler Building)
(Technically I am IN BED WITH KARL here)
(Dawg Friday night)
(lots of laughter while rehydrating with water from Dawg…at Starcocks)
(Brooklyn Bridge as viewed from tour bus)
(T. Sq.)
(top of ESB)
(bus)
(Mmmmmm, sweaty firemen.)
(fashion district)
(next to the Chrysler Building, this was my fave)
(best spring roll ever)
(oh yeah…we rode the subway.)
(yes, I totally spent some time kissing this man while on a sidewalk in Greenwich Village…no, I didn’t go back to his place even though he bought my dinner and drinks…yes, he also reminds me of Syler from Heroes, but damn could he kiss.)
(I was fascinated by all of the cabs.)
(Central Park!)
(Britt, Karl, Cissa & Robin…at the Met!!)
(awww)
And then, after all that fun, my camera batteries were as exhausted as I was and both died. So I got no photos after the HNT pictures from the Met that I posted yesterday. Not one single photo of the Gay Pride Parade that made me want to dance and had me happy to be alive. No photos of the makeover that Britt did for me or of our last dinner in NYC. The “hold on with both hands” cab ride to the airport? Nuttin. But that is just fine. Because I WILL BE BACK. Look out NYC. Now I know how to plan for you. 
Thanks for stopping by and hopefully enjoying the photo recap. Hope your day is spectacular. Happy Fourth of July! I’ll leave you with one of my favorite photos. I took this on a hazy day at the construction area which used to be the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers…
