Meeting Friends

The past few days have been so full of exploring I haven't had time to post as I go!

Let's start with Friday. My furniture came during the day and I spent the afternoon getting frustrated with IKEA directions, but I finally succeeded in building my dresser all by myself after two hours.

Pietro came over after work and we went to meet one of his friends from Princeton, Dale, for dinner in Chinatown.  After a delicious dinner of shrimp, egg whites, bamboo, and squash (and of course a bubble tea stop as we were in china town) we decided to go sit in Washington Sq. Park for a while.  Dale was only visiting the city for a few days and had never seen this part of the city before, So we went as the sun was setting and sat and talked in the park for a long time.  It was beautiful and the weather was perfect.

Then Pietro and I went back to my apt to assemble my desk and desk chair, I ended up doing most of it myself but I was proud when it was finally done (pictures will come later).
Saturday was pretty much perfect.  Pietro and I went out for breakfast and got DELICIOUS bagels (its true what they say, the NY water really does make a difference in the bagels)  and walked to Union Sq.  We saw a cute farmer's market there and Pietro showed me the building that he works in.

We walked around and found yet another bubble tea place which had the MOST DELICIOUS tea ever at Argo Tea Cafe.  The bubbles were not tapioca so that was a shame but if they had been it would have been hands down the best bubble tea we've ever had.  They actually used real tea and milk instead of flavor powder like most places.  

After that we met with three of Pietro's friends from Princeton Eddie, Carlos, and Tian-Yi (his roommate) who are all spending the summer in the city.  We had lunch at a delicious Thai restaurant, Bodhi Tree, where you could get two appetizers and an entree for only $7. Thoroughly stuffed, we walked around union sq. did some window shopping, and walked back to Wash Sq. Park where we sat and talked with Carlos.  After parting ways with him we decide to go grocery shopping and walk down the street from my apt and lo and behold the entire street is blocked off from cars for a large fair.  The street was lined with vendors selling food, clothes, jewelry, crafts etc. it was awesome.  We bought some candy apples and walked up and down looking at everything.

Great. Day.