We Love Visitors

Our good friends Devin & Shalise came to play in the city for a few days. Even though I had to work we were able to meet up at night and had tons of fun. Luckily Tyler didnt have to work so he touristed (I think I just made that word up) around with them.

The first night we toured our neighborhood a little. Walking out on the pier is our favorite thing to when people come to visit. Its not a part of the "normal" NYC vacation so we feel like its our little gem of the city.

The next night we met up and dove into Time Square. We had dinner at my favorite diner, Ellen's Stardust Diner. With the singing waitstaff and killer milkshakes its always a good time.

On Tuesday we met up in Little Italy for dinner at this tiny little restaurant that was so so good! We wanted to get gelato but "my gelato shop" (to which i am extremely loyal) was not very convient to where we were so when we stopped at Grand Central on our way home to see the beautiful station we got some gelato there. I have to admit that it was good but L'arte Del Gelato is still my favorite.

The last night we went to a Knicks game. It was so much fun! Devin & Shalise were so nice to buy us all tickets and we thought we were getting a deal with $40/ticket but when we picked the tickets up right before the game they were only $10 tickets. StubHub won on that one. The arena at Madison Square Garden was constructed brilliantly in that there is not a bad seat in the place. We could see the game great and had so much fun (even though the Knicks lost)

Thanks Devin & Shalise for a fun week!!

New York Design Center Hospitality Event

Interior Design Magazine and The New York Design Center hosted a hospitality event where the New York Design Center's showrooms opened their doors to designers, architects and the hospitality industry to frame the NYDC as New York's top hospitality design resource and to present a networking opportunity for the design community. Over 1,500 people filled the nearly 100 showrooms to see products and hear from various speakers. One of which was Jamie Drake (the boss man). It was so fun hopping from showroom to showroom meeting lots of people and nibbling on all the goodies.

The pre-party started in the cab.

Hayley, Darrin and myself (we work together)

The boss man doing his thing and the beautiful Michael Tavano showroom that hosted us.

Natalie, Hayley and me enjoying the event!