I had a pretty good (busy) weekend. On Friday, I attended my good friend’s birthday dinner and party. We went to Otto for a delicious meal which included a cheese platter, pizza, wine, gelato and Sugar Sweet Sunshine “Bob” cake. Yum. After our meal, we went to a Belgian beer bar. I ordered Cherry Lindemann’s beer. So tasty. Too bad the bar was a little warm inside. I wish they had better air conditioning. I went to bed relatively early (2am).

I still managed to wake up early to go to my spinning class with my favorite teacher, Jess. I then relaxed for most of the day on Saturday. I snuck in a short nap. I then went out with my new roommate, her sister and cousin. They are all from Las Vegas, so I could barely keep up. My roomie and I left the bar at 3am, when they kicked us out. However, her sister and cousin (who are visiting), went on to another bar! I then found out today that they didn’t get back to the apartment until 7am. Crazy. I don’t know how they have the energy to stay out so late.

Today, I woke up around 8:30am and headed to the gym again. I came back, showered and napped. I was meeting friends for brunch at Alice’s Tea Cup for sandwiches, scones and tea. We had our favorite pumpkin and ham & cheese scones. We tried the strawberry and chocolate scone and it was delightful! I thought about buying two scones to bring home, but I controlled myself and only bought the ham & cheese scone.

Tonight, I took my roommate and her visitors to Chinatown for a “real” Chinese meal. We went to one of my favorite restaurants in Chinatown, New Yeah Shanghai Deluxe. I introduced them to soup dumplings. Yum. I couldn’t resist and ordered my favorite preserved vegetable with pork noodle soup. After our very large meal (we ordered so many dishes), we headed to Chinatown Ice Cream Factory. I think my favorite flavor is Taro there. I didn’t get ice cream because I wanted to get my passionfruit green tea.

We walked through Little Italy and then they headed to Times Square while I went back home. I was just in time to catch the Trueblood season premiere. Yay! Now, I must go to bed so I can wake up at the crack of dawn to go spinning with Jess again! I love her music. It really gets me going!