brooklyn bound...

last weekend i enjoyed the nice weather we had here in the city...went walking around the UWS neighborhood and did some window shopping...ended up at the boat basin, a large outdoor cafe that faces the hudson river with a cool atmosphere...enjoyed some refreshments there while doing some people watching :)...

sunday i decided to venture out to brooklyn to the atlantic center mall...i found it online while doing some research of different areas and of course being from the midwest, i love me a good mall...this one was ok, not too big, but had some good shops that i like...i was excited to finally be heading outside of manhattan for the first time...rode the subway over the brooklyn bridge and got a different view of the city....i wasn't in an area that i'm looking to move to, but it was super close to the cafe where my book club meets, which is tonight...excited to meet some new people and maybe find a good friend or two!

tuesday night our office went on a little teambuilding bowling outing at lucky strike...for anyone who's been to star lanes at newport on the levee, it's the same set up (lucky strike owners started star lanes)...a boutique/loungey bowling experience...great food and drinks...everyone had high expectations of me, coming from the midwest where bowling is more common...i wasn't the highest overall scorer but i was decent...broke 100 both games so that's all i can ask for :)...

emily is coming for a visit this weekend and we have lots of fun things planned...and my first book club meeting is tonight...so i'll have more to write next week!...

time flies when you're having fun...

so i'm a little behind in posting...things have been busy here!...last weekend we rented bikes and rode down manhattan all the way to battery park to visit the shake shack for lunch, then back up to 95th and threw part of central park, with a stop at the boathouse for a cool drink...we got lucky with great weather/temps that day so the ride was fairly cool with the breeze off the hudson...it was great exercise and a good way to see all of the piers on the west side of the island...

then on sunday i ventured up to harlem to the east river plaza where there's a target, best buy, costco, marshalls...walking through target makes it feel like being back home!...so great to be in a 'familiar' place...although i couldn't buy all the groceries i wanted for fear i wouldn't be able to bring them all home with me via the bus/subway...i'm considering looking for my apartment up in that area where there's a lot of revitalization going on...and to be close to those stores would be amazing!...

work has been very busy and this week flew by...and now it's friday night and we are all at home, sharing our music collections via itunes home share, which is fantastic...not sure what the rest of the weekend has in store...i'm thinking of maybe going to a movie...

hoping to get the book i ordered in the mail for the book club that i joined...we meet in a couple weeks and i need to be prepared to discuss and make friends...

emily is coming up for a visit in a couple weekends so we've been making plans of things to do while she's here...a broadway show is definitely on the list!

and that's it for this post...stay tuned for more updates as we get into the thick of summer...hoping to find lots of things to do!