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March 04, 2002

I had a wild and

I had a wild and crazy weekend with my aunts Margaret and Felicia when they came up to visit. I even wrote about some of it in my journal but %$^&* blogger deleted it somehow. So I am back to square one and have been too pissed to write. Now I am back...so Here goes. Felicia and Margaret arrived on February 22 for their Weekend in NYC. They weren't terribly concerned with hitting all the monuments and sights. They only had a few small goals for this trip:

1)Find Zena the Clairvoyant; an amazingly astute tarot reader they ran into ten years ago on their last visit.
2)See someone famous; "I don't want to talk to them, or bother them, I just want to see them in 3-D."
3)Eat at Nobu; the restaurant in Tribeca of which Robert De Niro is part-owner.

I actually called NOBU before they arrived and they were all booked up for Saturday. My friend, Kambri, mentioned that they are usually booked up for months...so I had little hope of making that happen. This left the other two. Zena I didn't think would be a problem; after all they knew where it was and if she were still in business maybe Zena could tell me when I could finally put a down payment on that Village townhouse of which I occasionally dream. The famous people could be a little sketchy. The thing is, I see famous people all the time. I am almost immune to the whole thing. There is something oddly comforting in knowing that Hilary Swank wears cutoff jeans and no makeup to go shopping or her daily dose of Starbucks. So it does happen. But it is really difficult to go looking for famous people. It's always hit or miss. And the reality is, you are rarely going to see anybody in Times Square or wherever the tourists go. So I have to admit there was some pressure. But I was praying to God of NYC and hoping for something good...Heck, if worse came to worst, I would start making up seeing famous people and hope that my aunts would subconsciously catch on as their consciousness looked on in awe.

The first night of their visit they expressed an interest in going out where I lived. Weehawken. This really perplexed me at first. I have never gone out in Weehawken. It's just not that kind of town. This has been one of my frustrations about Weehawken...particularly that to see a movie in Jersey requires a car and I don't have one. Thankfully, my roomie Maia came through with a great idea. There was a sushi restaurant that overlooked the Hudson and NYC about 10 blocks away on Boulevard east. That would be an excellent opportunity to show them this fantastic view of the city right here in my neighborhood. I have to admit, I was curious about this restaurant too. I have jogged past it a few times but I have never been in there. (As I said, I never party in Weehawken.) So we set off walking toward the sushi restaurant. My aunts were suitably impressed w/ the view of NYC. I only hoped the restaurant lived up to the walk there. I was a little worried when we got there as there was no truly designated smoking area, but the sushi was amazing and the wine was great and the company was the best. I learned so many things about what's going on in both their lives and even learned things about them I never really realized. For instance, my Aunt Margaret has always taken great pictures but she also sketches. It seems that she hadn't taken pictures for a long time but she has just recently taken it up again and started drawing too. This was also her first time trying sushi. This was shocking to me as I view all of my family on that side as culinarily adventurous. Well, there is a first time for everything and she loved it. Well, she wasn't so fond of one of the rolls but the sushi was great. Felicia is starting a new job and that sounds very exciting. If you need a deal on space on a vessel from the Med to the US and back, she's your gal. After dinner we discovered there was a pool table downstairs in the bar area. Well, that was the beginning of the end of this wild night!

We decided to go play a little pool. We started with Cutthroat and ended up playing partners; Margaret and Felicia and me and this Puerto Rican Dominican named Tito. I have to say I have played the best pool of my life. It helped to have a laidback partner. He gave me great advice too. 'It's not just about hitting the balls in the pocket. You also want to set your partner up too.' He also followed his own advice which was really cool. So the Bailey's and Coffee, and Kirins were flowing and we were having a fabulous time. Tito and I ran the table for quite awhile. Felicia met a potential contact for her job. This asian guy named Deutsch who was an IT professional who also exported cars to the Philipines. He was a lovely man. He said he was 43 but he looked more like my age. By the end of the night my aunts were tanked, Margaret had met everyone of the bar's patrons bumming a cigarette and Felicia had been sureptitiously drinking shots with two couples in a booth at one end of the bar. It was time to go home. Fortunately Deutsch offered us a ride home. (I was afraid the walk would kill them.) So we said goodbye to everyone, including Suzanne-part of one of the couples Felicia and Margaret met who had a brother who worked on a movie set with Michael Douglas!!! She was sure we could get on the set tomorrow. Margaret was very pleased. I was wary. Drunk Suzanne was having trouble seeing straight. So my aunts' first night in NYC was a success and they hadn't even been to NYC yet. The next day we were on the look out for Zena and Michael Douglas!

Posted by mermu at March 4, 2002 06:56 PM

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