Happy Birthday Sylvia

Last night Chase and I headed up to the Bronx for a birthday party of one of our friends. We had such a great time eating, drinking, and playing different games. We started off the evening with some Golden Tea. Then we broke off into 4 teams for a good game of Cranium. For those of you who have never played Cranium you are truly missing out on one of life's greatest games. The teams: (1) Long Island (2) Bronx (3) Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens...and last but not least (4) The South. That's right, the South consisted of me and Chase, our two friends also from Mississippi, and Jay from Tennessee. Let's just say we warned them the South would rise again...and we did. We kicked butt. Mississippi may be trailing the nation in education, but we sure showed the New Yorkers what was up with Cranium! After the games, we ate dessert, played some Mario Cart and Guitar Hero and then finally began the trek back home around 2:00am. Verry fun night.

This picture is our play piece for the Cranium game. I mean how perfect is our little dude representing the South!

Dafe

Tonight we headed up to 107th street to support our dear friend Odiri as he performed at Underground Lounge. He did an amazing job and we are just waiting for him to hit it big. Congrats Odiri on the record deal!!

Weekend Fun

This weekend was a pretty packed weekend. Saturday, I woke up early to play soccer in a Jersey City Sports Day with some co-workers to help raise money for kids recreational sports. After that, I helped Josh pack up Nicole's apartment and then headed up to the hospital for the evening.

Sunday, Chase and I headed to Governors Island to ride bikes. After standing in line for about an hour, we finally got two bikes and enjoyed one of the most beautiful days we've had in a long time. It was a great way to celebrate the last 'official' day of summer.

J-E-T-S Jets! Jets! Jets!

Sunday, Sept. 14th - In theme with our sports weekend, Chase, Brittany, and Lee got up early to head to the Sports Museum of America while I did some work. Then we all met up to head out to the Meadowlands to see Brett Favre take the field as a NY Jet (still strange he isn't a Packer). Even though they did not come away with a win against the Patriots, it was still a very exciting game. Always a good day when you get to see Brett Favre play, right?

Only 9 games left....

Saturday, Sept. 13th - Lee and his fiance, Brittany, came in town for the weekend. They ended up getting tickets to the Saturday Yankees game, so we headed up to the Bronx for a fun [hot] day of baseball. Even though they lost, it was still fun to see one of the last games played in the stadium. That night we went for dinner and drinks at a place called P.J. Clarks in Midtown.

And so we Remember...

Today was the 7 year anniversary of 9/11. There was a ceremony at World Trade Center this morning where McCain and Obama paid their respects to the families. In addition they had two lights shown up in the sky representing the Twin Towers which you could see pretty much anywhere in the city. We took this picture on our way back from dinner tonight at the end of Wall Street. It's really powerful to see.

Tonight we also went and met up with Elizabeth and Josh for dinner at our special spot, Spice. Dinner was of course delicious and it was good to visit and learn about the upcoming wedding plans. Good times.

Labor Day 2008

This weekend Chase and I headed up to a few New England states for a Labor Day adventure. Total states visited: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, & Maine

Friday 8/29, Our weekend began with a fun bus ride to Boston where we then picked up our handy Zip Car and headed straight to Salem, MA.

Saturday 8/30, we walked around Salem and went to 3 museums on the Salem Witch Trials + 1 on pirates. Learned lots and got spooked from some of the museum displays (some were rather graphic). Then that night we attended a "Haunted Pub Crawl" if you will where they took us around town in a trolley and told us stories of ghosts while making some pit stops at a few haunted pubs.

at one of the bars

Sunday 8/31, we got up early and headed to Kennebunkport, ME. As advised by most New Englanders, we took a more scenic route along the beaches on our way. The weather was absolutely wonderful (no Gustav up here) and the houses were simply beautiful. I think we ended up taking more pictures of the houses than anything else. Once getting to Kennebunkport, we went to the beach for a little bit, walked around town, ate some delicious fudge, and then headed to Portland for dinner.

Kennekunkport, ME

George Bush's House

Portland, ME

We ate some lobster

Monday 9/1, we ate breakfast at our Bed & Breakfast, drove around one more time, and then headed back to the Boston area to catch our bus back to NY later that afternoon. Since we got back early, we decided we would take a pit-stop by Cambridge, MA and walk around Harvard University. Who hasn't always wanted to do that, right? I feel smarter now.

Harvard's campus

Then we caught an early bus back to NYC and ended our lovely weekend. Overall, a very successful and fun trip. Check out our other pictures from the weekend at: http://photos.jordanandchase.com/GalleryThumbnails.aspx?gallery=119788