Crazy Nite...

so - this kinda is what the night felt like :)

and this....now, in 25 years i have never had a good picture, like this one, of tay


scott is quite the task master - he was in the middle of taking pictures of others, then sensed i was taking a picture of him and he posed just in time for my camera

nun0 - the birthday boy :)

Tay and marka at joe's shanghai

so the night went like this: the girls met at my apartment around 6 and started trucking down to joe's in a taxi - only our taxi driver was so irritated with this biker that he kept honking and moving behind him, until the biker finally dropped his pants (while he's riding the bike) and mooned us and then proceed to demonstrate a particular "bird" to us - now i, of course, couldn't actually see this, because the driver's head was blocking it -but everyone else in the taxi did - it made the ride go by much quicker

then, we kept getting bumped down the list at joe's and ended up waiting for like an hour or something for a table - they kept blaming me because i was irritating the hostess - everytime she walked outside to yell a number - i would yell in an echo kind of voice - ninety one! - which was our number :) for the first time i actually got seated at a big table with two other families and the family next to me kept getting this fantastic food and everytime - "what is that?" - "oh, it looks sooooo good" - and they were very nice and humored my curiosity -

we leave joe's and catch another taxi - one with a death wish, he was going like 60 miles an hour down this neighborhood street with lines of cars on both sides - we get to chika licious (yes, again) to find a sign on the door "closed due to mechanical errors" what the heck!!!! i have been bragging about this place for ever to tay and there it was "CLOSED" my heart sank :( so...

we bought three bottles of wine and went to nuno's birthday party - he's portuguese and very fun! - as we settle into the party and grab glasses of white wine sangria (yummyy!!!) we look and over and there they are - the people from joe's shanghai that kept answering all my food questions - i mean what a freaking small world - in NYC of ALL places...so, we hung out until around 11:30 and then called it a nite...

nite nite everyone!