I blogged about my trip to Orlando days after it happened, and yet I completely forgot that I went to New York for spring break the week before!

I'd like to pretend that my life is just so interesting that things like that slipping my mind are justified, but honestly, I think it says more about my memory.

So...

I went to New York with Sarah for spring break!

I bought Sarah a ticket for her birthday/Christmas presents because she's got something of a thing for the Big Apple. I've always wanted to go, and my friend Tim kindly agreed to letting Sarah and I stay with him and his girlfriend Alison for the week, so spring break seemed like the perfect time.

Looking back at the trip from this three week distance, I'm probably going to recount a near parody of the trip's events. But, I'm going to try my hardest to at least hit the highlights.

There were a lot of bars. The first night my friend Tim, who we were staying with, brought us to a bar where he knew the DJ, which meant free drink tickets.

I'm pretty sure I met with my friend Max the next night. First we went to a pretty awesome bar called Barcade. Like its name implies, it was a bar/arcade hybrid (read: my kind of place). Then we tried to go to a standup show, but Aziz Ansari (from Parks and Recreation) ended up being there, so it sold out. Dismayed, Max then brought us to some bar where there are honest-to-goodness ski ball leagues. They were having a tournament while we were there, so we watched them for a bit, and played a few games of our own. Then, before heading home, Max brought us to this awesome bar that gives a free pizza for every beer you drink, called Alligator bar.

Pineapple for the win!

The next day I think we went to the Museum of Natural History. It was pretty cool overall. My only complaint really is that I thought dinosaurs were bigger. Like, a lot bigger.

Hollywood is probably to blame here, but I seriously pictured a T-rex being nearly, if not actually, three stories tall. He was barely two... So, to be honest, I'm not really sure why the people in Jurassic Park were so scared.

Pft

Getting there in height, but uh.. herbivores aren't scary no matter their size

More scary than the T-rex, in fact, were the bones of some odd money/human hybrid thing holding a spear... I never figured out what it was, but if I ever saw one scampering around my house holding that little bamboo pole I would shit myself.

Maybe it's just a baby? If so, babies are fucking terrifying underneath their skin

There were some other cool random things there too:

The Deer God from Princess Mononoke

Satan

A Plesiosaur! My favorite dinosaur

And, of course, Rhinos

The next day Sarah and I met up with Arlen, Dan, and some other friends from New York/Tallahassee at a bar where my aforementioned friend, Max, was throwing a comedy/karaoke show. It was an open mic night, but if you sucked at comedy they forced you to do karaoke, and vice versa.

After that we all met with Tim and Alison at another bar because it was Tim's B-day! Everyone got really drunk, a few people did karaoke, and it was a really good night over all.

A $10 minimum bar tab is hard to meet when Highlife tall boys are $2

I'm sort of losing steam here... there was another half week worth of stuff but I'm not sure that the length of this blog entry is proportional to the amount of interesting things inside of it. Basically we went to more bars, some scary drunk guy almost beat me up in the subway, Sarah, Tim and I went to the Aquarium, Sarah and I went to her friend's AA meeting in a giant church with hundreds of people in attendance, we went to central park, and on the last night Sarah and I went to a restaurant with Tim and his friend and we got free food, and a free sample of one of every beer that they brew there.

Phew, I'm out of breath just from typing that sentence. Here's some pictures:

Some trees...

Different trees... this time in Central Park

Obligatory Times Square shot

At the aquarium

Beer samples and Tim being possessed

Skyline park, which is an old train track turned park

It rained a lot while we were there...

A LOT

Oh, I also got to see some standup by Jay Pharaoh from SNL (which wasn't that good) and had my mind blown from a performance by Reggie Watts. He does all improvised music/comedy stuff. It was as much performance art as it was comedy really... here's a video of him I found, doing his thing: