meghan gave me permission

This picture is too good not to share and since Meghan doesn't believe in facebook I had nowhere else to post it but here so she gave me permission to use her face on my blog.

I try not to use people's faces because I don't want to presume that anybody would want to be affiliated with my blog but Meghan assured me that she definitely wants to be affiliated with my blog, so enjoy her beautiful face, and the 3D werewolf looming behind her.

We both concluded that we wanted this in our respective bedrooms.

Meghan took me to the Ace bar yesterday afternoon for beers and skee ball.  Apparently the group of guys behind us were playing a tournament which I learned when they all started cheering for me after I played my first game.  Apparently I managed to beat all of their high score on my first try.  It was definitely beginners luck though as every game I played after I only managed to score ten points per ball.

We ended up having a better time watching a real life sharp shooter playing big buck hunter anyways.

After leaving the bar we went to Barnyard for sandwiches, but on the way there stopped at this magical garden that was somewhere between the bar and the sandwiches.

After getting to Meghans and filling our bellies with delicious turkey clubs and pasta salad we played a scrabble tournament to end all scrabble tournaments.  There were many highlights from the evening, but my favorite was when my board randomly spelled out the best airline name ever:

Talk about flying the friendly skies.  I feel like Jon needs to transfer from JetBlue to PedoAir.  I think it would be a better fit for him.

I want to live on meghan's air mattress forever.

3:00pm, 4:00pm, 5:00pm, 6:00pm, 7:00pm, 8:00pm

Colin walked me back to Meghan's and we had grand intentions of doing fun things, but instead just sat on the couch talking which was lovely.  It was also overcast earlier in the day so I was trying to seek refuge, but as you can see here the sky had opened up again by three so I decided it was time to head back out in to the world.

By four we found ourselves in Union Square looking for food:

What we found was delicious sandwiches.  Nothing is a better chaser for a green juice lunch than a blt.  Mmmm, now my mouth is watering.

At this point Colin and I parted ways, he headed to his church, me headed to meet esha, and meghan at her work when she got out at five:

and even though I got THOROUGHLY chastised for sneaking these pictures of the McQueen exhibit I just couldn't resist because it was SO INCREDIBLY INCREDIBLE!!!

Pictures really don't do it justice.  I don't know how else to say it.  You really need to find your way here to see it for yourself before it goes away in August.

After our immersion in culture we found our way to Central Park for the six o'clock hour:

I really love this specific spot, I think because it's the entrance that I would have used the most when I first lived in the city.  I've also had many a good picnic on that hill.

Esha and Meghan and I walked through the park and enjoyed each others company before separating shortly before seven so Meghan could go feed the cat she is cat sitting for.  I was all excited to take a picture of this precious precious angel cat but when we arrived we found that the people had come home from vacation early, making for a very awkward exchange when we opened their front door.  I felt like the situation was weird enough without me asking if I could take a picture of their cat so unfortunately my seven o'clock picture is of the hallway outside their apt:

I feel like this happens every year.  I try really hard to be somewhere interesting at the top of the hour but inevitably there are one or two pictures of the most random and mundane thing.  Like the year we had to put the camera in the cheese case at the grocery store and take a picture of us with the sandwich artists making our lunch at noon.

So yeah, not exciting but that was 7:00 and by this point I was (and still am) EXHAUSTED.  But oh god, it was still daylight.  So bright!

I had to come back to the apt because I needed water and a change of shoes and to not be wandering around anymore so Meghan took me down to the Bette Midler garden for some H2O and evening conversation.  I thought I could make it to nine but surprisingly eight o'clock was the final hour of daylight, and I am pleased that I spent it in the garden that Bette built:

And I am secretly pleased that this day is FINALLY over.  Omg, talk about the longest day of the year.  It was like, really long.

So goodbye, enjoy, and I hope you all congratulate me tomorrow on my one year anniversary tomorrow.