Broadway

My roommate from college (scary to say), Carla, came in to visit, sort of. On Saturday we went into the city. We went to lunch at the place with the best mozzerella cheese, La Mela. Then we got mini canoles at Ferrara. I generally dont even like them, but the filling was pretty yummy. We walked around Chinatown, then met up with her mom, aunt, cousin and friend. They were in town because they have a clothing company and were doing a trunk show. Walked around Soho a while, got approached by a crazy lady filled with sex jokes, then went back to Starbucks to rest a bit. I couldn't help but really enjoy Soho. Its just so interesting to me and on this particular day, I was really liking the vibe. Carla and Russ's friend Jay came by after work and we met his friend for dinner. She was very interesting to talk to. Went to Harvard, then went to work as a paralegal. Somewhere there tol dher about a totally different path and convinced her to work in Hawaii, where she met Jay. Then moved to the Carribean to work for Club Med for 2 years. After Katrina she went to work for Red Cross and now works for a company that sells tourism tickets for things like Sex and the City tours, etc. Anyways, it was this pleasant little place called Faccocia (I think).

That night we were going to go to the LES but decided to just bar hop down Broadway in Astoria. Wonderful idea! First we went to the pool place right near the subway and 31st. Then we went to Janna which is a hookah bar, with apparently no liquor yet people were drinking wine. There was fun loud music and dancing and im looking foward to going back. Then we went to a place that all the windows were covered and there was no sign we saw but when we walked in, it was packed! But everyone was smoking so we booked it. Then we went to Winegasm. Sexual little place just off Broadway on 37th. Very drunk bartender trying to do flame tricks and not really doing so hot. No pun intended. After that, we walked over to Grand Cafe, had some champagne to end the night at 3:30 and jumped in a gypsy cab home.