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...start burning the cardboard from all the packages!
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...in order to Ride Jetskis in the East River for the THIRD TIME. LOL.
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Stopped at some huge indoor market and got snacks and freshly baked donuts...
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Right after we left camp, we ran into another group of campers who were stopped because one of them had badly sprained or broken their ankle. About two hours later, we were stopped for a rest...
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On Sunday evening, Grant cooked everyone dinner at Amanda's place.
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Afternoon ice cream at Lula's! (Bonus points for the the thumbs up from a stranger in the background. Haha)
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We picked our tree and got it wrapped!
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Hahaha.
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Thumbs up from Grant.
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The band had planned on having a huge post-show brunch party on Sunday at APT to celelbrate their first gig, but when the gig got cancelled with less than 24 hours notice, no one was sure what to do about the brunch. In the end, the band decided to press-on and have it. Here's Grant, Chris the Greek and Frank!
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Seriously, who loves posing with drunk strangers more than us? (Ps - Check out Grant's "modern dance" legs. It's a nice touch, don't you think?)
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And this time we were joined by karaoke first-timer Amy Albano! (Amy have known each other since 6th grade. We were roommates in college and in two different apartments in NYC! She was also one of the four people responsible for building the Indoorvillage!)
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Grant, Grant's lil' hat, Chris, Frank and me.
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Hahaha. So funny. Clockwise from the Grizza: Fatty, Jamye, Al, me and Uncle Ira.
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With our time together disappering almost as fast as our delicious french fries, Grant gives me a "Be brave with out me" thumbs up.
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On Wednesday Grant came back from London (he stayed behind to hang with his parents after our vacation ended, remember?) and was going to be in NYC for a few days (one of which we threw him a surprise party) before heading back to Los Angeles to do some final work oh his television pilot (nope, so not kidding). That night Fatty, (the rarely photographed) Michael Martin and myself all met up with Grant at the nearby Congee Village for some tasty dinner.
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I've never seen Grant so happy in my life.
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Meanwhile, back at home base, Grant seemed to be making serious flirty headway with the lovely Tymber.
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One of the first things we noticed: apparently Rethymnon has specifically designated "pedophilia" areas. Progressive!
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...a huge Cretan man that looked like a bizarro "Ogre Version" of our good friend Ross Martin. Not willing to let him escape undocumented, we dispatched Chris (who speaks fluent Greek) to tell the giant Ross-Ogre (R'ogre, if you will) that he looked just like a friend of ours and would he mind posing for a picture. There was an uncomfortably long pause as he pondered our request (which I spent fearing he was about to crush all of our heads like grapes) but instead he gave a polite nod and posed for this fantastic pic.
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After eyeing all the platefulls of sausage, the girls couldn't help but want to snuggle up with tha Grizza.
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Frank, me, and Grant.
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On Wednesday, Grant and I got to the office only to find samples of some of the new merchandise Nerve.com is thinking of selling. Hmmm....Nerve.com trucker hats? And the verdict is?
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We ended up deciding on garlic bread cheesesteaks. For desert we got a funnel cake and a bag of deep friend Oreos. Holy shit.
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At 8:59pm, just as we sat down on a bench to eat our dinner the power was finally restored to Soho and the Lower East Side (we were the last neighborhoods in all of NYC to get it restored going a whoppoing 28 hours and 28 minutes without it)! As the lights came up all around us, people everywhere were laughing and clapping and cheering and singing. Yay, power!
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Success!
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This is hands down my favorite pic of the night. Bert N' Tha Boyz.
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Thumbs up!
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From L to R: Fatty, me, Colin, Frank and Grant.
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All three of us (that's Bret over there on the right) in bartending action! Yahtzee!
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Haha. This is me and Grant with the staff at the Homestyle Cafe Diner. He and I have eaten lunch there a couple days a week for years and we've all become friends over the years.
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Thumbs up from the boys!
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But Frank said it best: "That's life." You just gotta pick yourself up and get back in the race.
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Seth, Seven Layer (sans bib), Grant and me.
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Turns out, it's in their nature to be happy...so they instead decided they wanted to take a happy picture.
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Aw yeah, birthday boyeeeee.
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Scott, Gran, Sarah and Tim's eye.
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No stranger to whipping out my own bag, I handed over the camera and teamed up with Grant for this amazing photo. (Look at our faces!!! nd bonus points to me for actually resting my nuts on the guys chair.)
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Can you pick out what's different here? Yep, that's right. Only one person is wearing a blue shirt. (From L to R: Lil' Buddy, Tall Stranger that was trying to be "money" like Vince Vaughn, Chris, Grant, and Grant's crazy friend Alyssa who came back to my place and tried to cheat on her boyfriend with me. Crazy, crazy, cuh-razy.
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Thumbs up. That's all, yo.
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Grant gives the thumbs up to the fire he built. (Just for the record, the flame you see is actually just newspaper burning and his "fire" promptly died out like 10 seconds after the photo was taken).
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Caught up in the excitement, Grant and I shucked off our shirts and posed for this pic, which is hands down, the Gayest Picture of Me Ever Taken.