The weekend of May 28th (Memorial Day Weekend) is known as "Fleet Week" around NYC...which means that tons of sailors and military come into the city for special festivities to honor their service and this year amongst all the sailors there were also a lot of dentists due to a national dental convention...which lucky for us brought our good friends Craig and Ashley to the city for her professional continued education. Friday the 27th was the first warm sunny day the City had in a few weeks, so we decided to try "The Frying Pan"...which is a sunken ship that was recovered and now floats in the Hudson off of the Chelsea Piers (http://www.fryingpan.com/) ...very popular amongst the young NYC professionals after work. A friend of ours warned us that it gets crowded really early, so Charlie and I got there around 3pm...we didn't have to wait in line to get it...but once we got on the ship...we realized how popular it was. Everyone just buys buckets of corona's ($36 for 6 beers in bucket...typical NYC prices) ...so we bought 2 buckets and waited for our friends Craig and Ashley to arrive. Unfortunately they arrived right when the after work crowd was getting there and had to wait in a long line.....eventually they got in and we sat on the Hudson enjoying the weather and finishing our $6 beers. Afterwards, we took a short cab to Greenwich Village and stumbled upon a couple of pubs for dinner and drinks. Craig tried using his "smart" phone to look up nearby bars with entertainment....one of the most highly rated bars in the area was called "Marie's Crisis"....so we walk over to it and check it out...to find a small cramped piano bar in a basement packed with the most show-tune loving guys and girls....not exactly what the 4 of us were looking for....so we quickly ducked out...and the homeless person out front started laughing at us ....saying "i could have told you guys..that bar wasn't for us"...I think he stands there all night just getting a kick out of dumb people like us.
On Saturday, we went back into the city to see the Broadway play "That Championship Season" with Craig and Ashley. They were able to get really good tickets from the half-price ticket booth. Our seats were so close...we could literally see the sweat rolling down the actor's faces. The plot was a little depressing....basically about a group of men in their 40's or so that had been on the championship basketball team back in their high-school days that have a reunion at their coaches house to talk about all their life problems...but the cast was amazing....Kieffer Sutherland, Chris North (Mr. Big from Sex and the City), Jim Gaffigan (Comedian ..has been on lots of shows..but I recognized him most from the Sierra Mist commericals), Brian Cox and Jason Patric.
It is always so much fun ...when we have people come in town to visit.
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