so this is the new year

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
goodbye 2008, hello 2009.

i spent last week in New York with the family & friends
we started off the trip by dinner at Benihana,
(mine and Sarah's favorite!) and then we went to see the Little Mermaid on Broadway.
it was amazing!

and then we went to get the car in the garage.
we heard some music coming down in the garage and out of nowhere comes
the naked cowboy! awkwarddd.
apparently that garage is where he kept his fur coat and car
while he roams NYC during the day

I don't make this stuff up.

The next day Sarah & I saw Spring Awakening
I new generally what it was about, but it was definitely more intense than I had thought.
The show was really good though, and I'm glad I got to see it before it closed
I'm glad I got to see so many shows before they close!! (R.I.P. Broadway :( )
We tried to meet Hunter Parrish after the show, because he is beautiful,
but he didn't come out because it was "in between shows", lame.

This is Hunter. I'm not even sure what year this picture is from.

But he is beautiful.

We had dinner with the fam and then headed to Long Island,
where we spent the rest of the trip at our second home, aka Marissa's house.

The next day, we went back into the city again.
We met up with Sam and took tourist pictures with the tree at Rockefeller
and had lunch at Hard Rock Cafe.

The next day we played lots of Wii Fit
and came to the conclusion that it is the greatest thing ever.
Sarah and I are not sure why we still don't own a Wii.

We saw Bejamin Button, which, for a 2 hour and 45 minute movie,
held our attention pretty well. Half of the theater left bawling their eyes out,
while I was still trying to make sense of the whole thing.
It was a good movie, but the whole growing younger thing was just very odd to watch.

On New Year's Eve, Sarah, Marissa, and I decided to go to Party City
to get decorations. While there, we came up with the genius idea
of having a Christmas themed New Year's party.
All of the Christmas stuff was 50% off.
See, told you it was a genius idea.

It was excellent.

Although I wanted to go to Times Square for New Year's,
I don't think I would have survived in the 19 degrees.

And our theme was better anyways.