Friday Naomi and I headed into the city for a day off with a very special and fun dinner at the end!
Here we are on the train, being goofy and probably driving everybody crazy. Fortunately there weren't many people on the train to bother :)
We got into Penn Station around noon and then walked our way all the way down to...
We walked up to the bookstore and there were like 20 carts of $1 books outside. I knew we were doomed. Look at all the lovelies!
I thought I was going to get out pretty easily, but then I found the Lemony Snicket audiobooks - which I have slowly been trying to accumulate, but they are hard to find and expensive and these were on sale for only $12! I was so excited.
Of course, then we had to carry our bags of books all over the city.
After the Strand, we sat in the park and had lunch. We bought some fresh fruit to share. mmmm...
It's funny, all through all of those "famous" landmarks and we took hardly any pictures, but we stopped to take pictures of this church (Of course I can't remember which one it is)
And this random building. Yeah, we're like that.
And this random building. Yeah, we're like that.
So after taking a break in Borders, we headed off to the Jekyll and Hyde Club to meet up with Nikki Stafford and some of the other Nik at Niters for dinner.
The restaurant was a lot of fun - a little loud - but fun. The characters played their parts well - especially the caretaker whose name completely escapes me and Miss Misery.
Naomi and I were standing outside the restaurant waiting for the others to show up and Naomi looked at me and said, "We're insane."
I looked at her. This is of course a given. After all we are both writers and therefore a tad insane. I just wasn't sure why in this particular time we were insane.
"We're doing what they always warn you against. Meeting people you met on the internet."
haha! But, as my boss put it, most serial killers don't travel in packs, so we figured we were probably safe :)
You know how it is when you are really good friends with someone and then you haven't seen each other for like five years and you get together again and for a couple minutes it's a little weird, but then you just feel as though you were never apart?
That's the best way to describe how it was meeting everybody. Even though we had never met face to face, it was like we were getting back together with old friends. It was amazing. We talked Lost and other TV shows and other random things and just had a marvelous time. I so hope that I have the chance to meet up with some of the other Nik at Niters in the future.
Naomi and I are going to Polaris in July and we'll at least get to see Nikki again (so excited!) But I'm hoping that some of the other blogger people will be there too.
Here's the happy little crew.
Yeah!
I could have stayed and talked all night long, but unfortunately, there was one train back to our stop and if we had missed it we would have been stuck overnight, which would not have been cool. We did have a nice long evening together, though and it was just amazing. Getting to actually speak to people and see their expressions as they throw out their theories and being able to immediately bounce back and forth ideas and expand on and qualify and question and answer with each other. So much fun!
Blam posited a grand theory, which he illustrated with the best napkin sketch ever. I'm pretty sure Nikki is going to put up a picture of the napkin, because she saved it so we would have proof that Blam figured everything out. But one of the best things was when Kevie picked up the napkin and "explained" Blam's theory to the other half of the table. It went something like... "See, here's a circle and that makes this line go woowoowoo" hahahahahahaha!
Okay, maybe you had to have been there.
And I really hope Blam posts it up sometime soon, because it's a blow-your-mind kind of theory.
Anyhoo.
It was a blast. and I'm dying to do it again soon.
*happy sigh*
