New Yoooork City!

On Friday Lauri and I headed up to NYC to surprise-celebrate Alissa's Birthday. We hid out at our friend Kira's apartment and when Alissa arrived to meet Kira for lunch we burst out of the bedroom. It was a success and Alissa was way surprised! YAAAY! We gave her our gifts and then headed out in the rain for sushi. Mmmm...delicious $8 lunch sushi special.



As an added bonus, I got to catch up with an old friend, Jeremy Tarbox (gotta include a last name that's that cool), who was in town for a short while. Way back in the day Kira and I studied abroad in Sydney, Australia and Jeremy was one of our good Aussie friends when we were over there. It was awesome to get to see him and catch up.



After lunch we were all going to get mani/pedis but the place was all booked up. :-( So instead we tried hats on since Lauri has been in the market for a new hat. What do we think of this option?



After leaving the hat shop we couldn't decide what to do. So rather than make a decision and act on it as Jeremy suggested we do (since we were standing outside in the rain) we decided to not make a decision, and instead take turns taking photos of each other jumping up and down. :-) Much more fun. We told Jeremy we didn't want to hear anymore of his rational ideas.



Here is the hands down favorite....



Jeremy had a great time not only taking the photos...but also holding all our bags. Yaaaay...fun for him!



and one more fun one...



More photo fun back at Kira's place...we did do other stuff. I swear. :-)

Our direction for these two shots..."crack up." Good actors...no?





Finally, we all headed out to a house party to end our night. Lauri and I opted not to bring our cameras...but Alissa took this photos which we just had to post. Us with this year's Dwight (from The Office) look alike contest winner!!! On Saturday morning Alissa and Corey, aka Dwight, headed to Scranton, PA for The Office convention and Corey, not surprisingly, took home the big prize...well actually, no prize, but he was the winner.



It was a great day...Happy Birthday to Alissa! :-)