NYC or Bust

Welp. I'll be taking the rest of the week off from my little Blogger console. We'll be attending a Yugo wedding in North Jersey with my in-laws. I'm envisioning scenes from My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Hopefully, some crazy old guy won't be squirting me with Windex.

We'll also get to see a little bit of the Big Apple... a first for myself. We'll get to see some sites and be nice and touristy!

Peace and have a good weekend!

Pictures here

Comments

  1. Anonymous9:41 PM, February 15, 2006

    OK, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry...but I have to ask:

    Is a "Yugo wedding," one where they the whole bridal party piles out of a brightly colored Yugo as if it was some kind of clown car?

    But seriously have a ball in the Big Apple. NYC is a fun town. The frogette and I usually do a long weekend in NYC every year. Sort of a detox.

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  2. The GTL™9:43 PM, February 15, 2006

    Have a great time in the Big Apple; Godspeed. I'll check back in on ya l8r...

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  3. Anonymous11:48 PM, February 15, 2006

    Have fun in NYC! take lots of pictures for us california types.

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  4. Lily7:10 PM, February 16, 2006

    Bye! Have fun! Check in with you next week.

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  5. enigma4ever6:58 PM, February 17, 2006

    Have a great weekend....a good time , esp in the Apple....It wasn't Windex- that they drink when they are out of Ouzo....

    ( 409 is the spray of choice....)

    eat lots of food and go skating at the Center...

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  6. Rex Kramer, Danger Seeker10:32 PM, February 17, 2006

    As someone who spent way too much time in North NJ, I'm afraid to say we may have seen the last of Drew. It's true what they say... once you're exposed to the land of Big Hair, gum-smacking and Bayonne, you never come back.

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  7. Crackpot Press7:50 PM, February 18, 2006

    Please remember to report back on the food... is Yugo food any good?

    Believe it or not I am an ordained minister and have performed the occaisional wedding.

    My fee:

    A Six Pack and a Bridesmaid.

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  8. Yukkione8:56 PM, February 19, 2006

    Hope you had a great time!

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  9. Tina2:12 PM, February 20, 2006

    Hey... big hair is not not a Jersey or Long Island thing. Ever visited Sheep's Head Bay in Brooklyn?
    W-O-W... the hair is so high it could set off fire alarms.

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  10. Drew Dallons11:57 AM, February 21, 2006

    Haha... Kvatch... the Yugo Car joke wore thin on my woman about 20 seconds into our relationship. Seems that Yugos (or more precisely, Macedonians) do not want to be remembered for that God-awful sardine can that rambled out of Eastern European factories during the 80's.
    But in theory, that would be an amusing visual.

    E4E,... no Windex, thank God, but there was plenty of some sort of Ouzo-type hard liquor that was in plentiful abundance just about everywhere we went. Kate calls it moonshine... and I guess some Macedonians still make it (her Godparents apparently have a still in their basement). The shots I had tasted a little like high-proof Tiajuana mescal. It would be good for two things... powering a Yugo and putting hair on one's chest.

    Rex was right yet again. Plenty of gum-smacking, pancake makeup wearing, big-haired chicks to be seen around the Garfield/Saddlebrook/Wayne area. I thought for a second we had entered a time warp and got sucked back to 1987.

    CP... actually there wasn't much Yugo food at any of the functions we went to over the weekend, although the groom's mother made some good Sarma (stuffed cabbage). For the most part, though.. the catered events had American or Italian food... which is fine with me as I'm picky when it comes to Yugo cooking.

    All in all, we had a good time. It was a little awkward being a non-Yugo at a Yugo wedding. I understood maybe 5% of conversations and always felt bad when someone would have to go out of there way to English-ize the dialog.

    NYC was great, although due to wedding commitments we didn't spend near enough time there. I can say, though, that I've driven around Manhatten in Friday rush-hour traffic and lived to tell about it. Now I just need a few days to decompress.

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  11. Lily12:17 PM, February 21, 2006

    Aw, we're glad you're back in one piece... Friday traffic?? UGH! PATH on Fridays.

    Sounds interesting, though!

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  12. Kathleen Callon4:34 PM, February 23, 2006

    Glad you liked NYC. It's a great place to visit even if it's not the best place to live.

    I always get a kick when I see big "Joysey" hair.

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  13. Anonymous4:47 PM, February 23, 2006

    hey,back to work here!

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