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All packed up!
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Here we go!
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Look how excited Maddy is. Lol. She loves waking up in the woods and cannot WAIT for me to get up and take her on a walk so she can be off leash and hunt chipmunks. Fucking little dachshund psycho!
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Grant was excited about stepping into Vermont for the first time! I'M IN VERMONT NOW!
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...and snapped some pretty good photos of parents...
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...that made Grant so happy I literally can't look at this photo without smiling.
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They clearly knew their audience.
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Cee lo and LRC. Big winner! (This photo basically sums up tour pretty good)
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On the way back I took this picture when I had the thought "Oh shit, I think I'm going to buy this place." LOL. (Took me 8 months of thinking about it...but I eventually pulled the trigger in April of the following year!)
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Afterwardsi, I stopped in to visit the Mayor of Mott Street, seen here celebrating the arrival of a new bag of dish sponges. Happy day!
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...BURN ALL THE CARDBOARD!
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...Hans sneaked out of the bedroom with a lit cake!
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Nest dog is excited to meet you.
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Synchronized tail-wagging! So excited to see Gurj!
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...and got Vietnamese for lunch. My mom ordered a wild card off the menu and was pleasantly surprised with some kind of GIANT omelette.
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...you know, SPORTS!
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...to celebrate Gurj's birthday!
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...who could ask for more?
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Moar franz arriving!
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Hahah.
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Hahah.
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...to bring in the new year at Ellen & Hans' apartment!
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On Friday morning I packed my bags and said farewell to the exuberant grandparents.
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...like this excellent three-piece deluxe set of screen-cleaners! SCORE!
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Ta-da! Feasting time!
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She'd gotten some last minute tix through work.
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We stumbled on the Manhattan outpost of Smorgasburg and stopped to get our treat on.
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Woke up before 7am, excited to be the middle of the nature with no more rain!
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On the walk home, Maddy ran into her doppleganger (dapple-ganger?), Esther!
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...to spend the afternoon....
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Dumplings and an afternoon drinky-drink!
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Had a relaxing Sunday catching up with this guy. We tried a Korean place in the neighborhood.
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Haha.
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YUM!
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The other was an investigative journalism piece for Penthouse! "The Squirt Meister: There's a masseur in New York City who says he can provoke female ejaculation in any woman. Our lucky reporter took two volunteers to test his claim."
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Maddy's face. LOL.
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Later that afternoon, I met up with Ellen at we went to Bowery Diner (RIP!) for milkshakes.
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Look out, he's using performance enhancers!
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Jury's still out about whether or not they make you look tres cool or not. (Grant's face in the background. Haha).
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Maddy doing her laps of excitement.
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...for a delicious Cafe Petisco breakfast with Grant. He'd recently discovered...
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Happier than a kid on Christmas.
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Jared was so stoked.
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Ta-da!
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...and got picked up by these two! Hahah. So good.
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Haha.
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Later, we headed over to B-Side to celebrate!
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Great Adventure, here we come!
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Aileen unwrapping a custom-made pair of wedding dancing shoes for when the heels come off at the reception.
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We got up bright and early on Thursday to catch our flight. Here's my parents waving us goodbye. Adorable.
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Yes! The only thing that's more Florida than being able to score scary fireworks is...
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..until we found the "Large Assortments" section. This is pretty much the only kind of shopping trip I can get excited about.
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...score some cookies! I went to go see the movie 50/50 and Mer and Gurj went to Irving Plaza to visit Ellen at a Third Eye Blind DVD shoot. (No, seriously!)
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Chris bringing reinforcements...
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...and got the royal welcome from the weiner hound!
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Me & Jeet.
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So excited. Look at this place!
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Look at Gurj's face when she walked into Amoeba Records!
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...out to meet up with Edie, Leigh & Ryan.
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Ellen came over on Sunday afternoon and we ordered...
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In other exciting news, Ellen had brought along a shirt from the very first production run her and Emily's clothing company, Ece Equestrian! Congrats, Ellen!
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Ellen brought some gifts for Sarah's belated birthday.
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All liquored-up and ready for...
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...we'd arrived! Meredith geeking out over the ridiculous ocean-view!
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After dinner, we walked over to Video Games New York so Brett and I could buy each other belated gifts! And also so we could..
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What other things were in the stocking?
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I got memory foam-lined slippers! It's like your feet are getting a hug.
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...but it was kind of a big deal at the time. Haha.
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Later that evening, we met up with Matt again and went to L'asso where we got DESSERT pizza after our regular pizza! Nutella and marshmallow, yes!
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Oh yes.
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We landed right at 10pm, we had a text message from Ty telling us the address of a Halloween party he was at. He told us he had costumes waiting for us!
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...on the way to Quantum Leap in the East Village for lunch.
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...to meet up with my parents. They were coming into town and wanted to see a Broadway show, so we got tickets to see Billy Elliot. My mom was super excited because...
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Time to head home.
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After we'd filled our bellies, Frank suggested we celebrate the luxury of having a backyard with a few humble 'WORKS!
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Haha. Everyone pretty much has the same exact facial reaction when they notice a table filled with candy.
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Haha. So excited!
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...the food's out!
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OOOOOOATS.
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Still managed to meet up with Pauly on the way! Wooooo!
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On Friday night Mer and I took the bus down to south Jersey to visit y parents. Here's my mom getting enthusiastic about late night snack time. Meredith looks shell-shocked. Haha.
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Matt wandered off and came back with a box filled with ice cream treats. MURIKA!
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...And it's all gone!
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Charles' French toast looked amazing!
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Meredith was overwhelmed.
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Tecate float?
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Happy dog is ready to roll!
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Tuesday night a bar around the corner from our place was having a party to show the premiere of a short-lived MTV reality show that Gurj appeared on. Here she is at our door all excited and nervous! Eeeeek!
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Dog reunion! They were so excited to see each other.
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...and brought them to the bank on 1st Ave that has a coin change machine!
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On Friday night, Josh came over to our apartment to hang out before proposing to Jenny!
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...because there's a giant Mrs Fields chocolate chip cookie inside!
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Culinary skills: I has them.
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Haha. So excited for pancakes!
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And my mom got my holiday boxers...