Greek Wedding

I was invited to go to Greece with KT as her tag along for Jason's wedding. It was the most incredible country. I could go back year after year. We started in Athens, traveled to Mykonos and then to Kefalonia, with stopovers in London and Madrid.

So while Shaun was off in Montana, I was at the Parthenon. The New Museum of the Acropolis was not yet open but Kelly and I soaked ourselves in the history of Athens, it was beautiful. I thought a lot about John and Thalia and wished we had kept in touch... the food was incredible and after one day I was in love with this country.

I must say I was not expecting to love Mykonos, after hearing about it's reputation of a party town, but party we did. It was a culture I could learn to love. Food, drink, fun, beaches. We were in paradise, not sure how I can top the trip thus far until...Kefalonia.

Here we visited: Mirtos, Fiskardo, Assos, Argostoli, Agia Efima

We took a tour set up by Jason's family, we had dinners, activities, all set sail. The NYU Business Crew was a blast. Kelly knows how to plan a vacation!

The wedding ceremony was beautiful and I didn't feel like a stranger. I felt that we were the only ones in the town. We gathered in Antipata and the reception took place here at Anastasi church.

I also learned about Koufeta, the white symbolizes purity and the egg shape of the almonds representes fertility and the new life which begins a marriage. The hardness of the almond represents the endurance of marriage and the sweetness of sugar symbolizes the sweetness of future life. The odd number of almonds is indivisible, just as the the bride and the groom shall remain undivided.

A Wienermobile Journey

In college during my sophomore year, I kept an article tacked to my wall, it would later become my obsession. The article was about the Hot Dogger program, the internship to drive the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. I laugh at this because it is not something I would ever fathom indulging in today but then I saw it as my ticket to a job in the Promotions business. I thought if I got this internship, I could get any job that I wanted. So it became my obsession and part of many jokes with my suitemates especially since Alfred University had Hot Dog Day. The Wienermobile even came to visit in 2006 but I was in London. My best friend even saved me some Wiener Whistles. So Senior Year, Christine and I drove to Wegman's to get the kid's size Wiener Mobile off the display, we tied it to the top of the car, her station wagon and drove from Alfred, NY to Long Island. Then I loaded it in my parents mini-van for a trip back upstate to The Gunks where my cousin's husband and I would plot out my script and film my interview tape. It was at The Circle C where I had an Epiphany. Did I really want to drive a Hot Dog truck?! The dream had died.

So that leads me to today, when I saw, "My Salvation Has a First Name," a one woman show by Robin Gelfenbien at the NY Fringe Fest. It was hysterical, a delight, especially for me, since I once too shared the same dream as Robin. It was the story of her quest to get the position, her interview, her experience has a Hot Dogger and beyond. I very much appreciated this show.

The Sixpoint Event @ Blind Tiger

In heaven. It's crowded here though. Shaun and I went to The Sixpoint event at The Blind Tiger, a new favorite beer bar of mine.

The list:
Sixpoint Apollo Wheat
Sixpoint Belgian IPA
Sixpoint Belgian Rye
Sixpoint Bengali Tiger IPA
Sixpoint Brownstone
Sixpoint Triple
Sixpoint Diesel
Sixpoint Emasculator
Sixpoint Gemini
Sixpoint Gorilla Warfare Porter
Sixpoint Hop Obama
Sixpoint Reaction
Sixpoint Righteous Ale

We didn't get to try them all!