After about twenty trips back and forth over week, by Thursday night we finally had our old apartment empty! Meredith resting up before the final trip!
A little after 9pm, we decided to head back to our place. On the walk over, we stopped to pick up some treats at our corner store. BROTHER'S CANDY REPRESENT!
Before getting back on the L to Manhattan, we stopped off at a falafel place and ordered sandwiches and took pictures of Lisa nodding off in the cold outside while we waited for them to be prepared. Haha.
On Saturday's in August they close a bunch of Manhattan streets to cars so that everyone can ride bikes everywhere! It's called Summer Streets and it's awesome!
Siege's low rider bike on display in the studio. We left Siege and Katie's a little after three. Mer headed home to go to bed at a reasonable hour, but me, I had ants in my pants...
July 26th is Amanda's birthday (and Leigh's too!). On Saturday morning, I rode my bike down to Battery Park to meet up with the birthday girl for a birthday bike ride up the West Side!
Waiting for the freight elevator to come down so that I can take my bike up into work. Not very exciting, I know. But sometimes I just take pictures of the boring mundane things I do every day because it helps me remember what that time in my life was like. So, there you go.
On Tuesday night Amy and I went on a super-long bike! We started out on the east side of Manhattan and then rode all the way down around the bottom and over to the west side. Right at the beginning of our ride, we took a smoke break and then like 45 minutes later I realized that I'd left my backpack sitting on the bench! The bag had a ton of shit in it, iPod, books, keys, two cameras (!!!). I was bumming because I pretty much figured it would be gone by the time we got back...
On Saturday, Meredith and I went down to Chinatown to the aNYthing store to visit Amy K. Meredith brought her a CD-holder that was shaped like a giant cheeseburger. Amy was so excited because it matched her cheeseburger bicycle bell!
On the train back into town I ran into David Bonan from high school! This guy was a year younger than me and I don't think I'd seen him since some time back in the early nineties. Anyway, I recognized him and said hi and then started telling me that he'd recently become a "radical bike activist." So I just Googled him and sure enough, there's an article about him on a biking site. But even more interestingly, according to they New York Times, he ran as a candidate the 2004 Senatorial races! (So what if he lost 169 votes to 21,506 votes? How many people ever voted for YOU to be Senator?) Happy Thanksgiving!
Later on, we got a call from the Fatty who wanted to know what we were up to. "Taking stupid pictures of us kicking stuff in Chinatown," we told him. Without a pause Fatty was like "Awesome, I'll be there in ten." True to his word, Fatty was on the scene in less than ten minutes. (Courtesy of his bike and shiny, silver helmet).
