It feels good to just relax with your friends in a city you love without worrying about running here and there taking in the sites. Really, this day was about enjoying the company and dynamic of a group that was about to be dispersed.
The day was lazy and the night was chill, I experienced what Jessica considers the best New York pizza “John’s” on Bleecker Street. I am going to be careful with my word choice because I wouldn’t want to overstate the experience. John’s pizza was a baptism of flavor, I once was lost in the land of mediocre pizza pie and now I am found by John’s…the apostle of pizza.
We stuffed ourselves to the brim and enjoy reminiscing about our past lives, about high school mischief and about how amazing and emotional this experience has been. I took in the atmosphere again as we shared a cab to the Lower East Side. We went to a bar that seemed to be set in a retiree’s basement in Wisconsin with nothing but heavy rock on the juke box…so in short, it was awesome.
After a pregame drink it was off to Igy’s where I had two of the most delicious beers. First it was a “Rogue Dead Guy” no idea what kind of beer it was but it tasted like a pale ale. Next was an “Ace Cider” which tasted like peach mixed with green apple…forget miller Highlife THIS was the champagne of beer. The rest of my crew was feeling like a big bag of aids so me and the lovely Lindsey broke off to “Piano’s” where I bore witness to a 70 yr old Flava Flave look alike singing baba o’reily on Karaoke.
I met new friends, amazing people, I made chance encounters with strangers and I got home on my own. Another empowering day in the city and tomorrow starts my journey as a man not vacationing in the big apple: but a man who is making his way in the big bad city…wish me luck.
-KH
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