Long time, no entry! I've been super busy - starting back up with my January term and commuting to NYC has been tough, but I definitely prefer (short term) commuting so that I can see my family during what should be my break.
A few weeks ago we drove through Seaside Heights, Ortley Beach, and West Point Island - which had all been hit pretty badly by Hurricane Sandy. Above is Zach's grandma's house, isn't it gorgeous! Luckily, it wasn't affected at all by the storm.
On the left is Luke's kitten Luna, who I find myself playing with every time we go over his house now. On the right is the Ocean Gate boardwalk, the town next to mine, looking all wobbly and disfigured. I was surprised that after the hurricane a lot of the boardwalk was still standing, although much of it was lumpy-looking. The houses there seemed like they stood up alright, but it was pretty sad walking all around trying to find a flat area of boardwalk, when I used to walk there all the time with my mom.
For New Year's Eve, Zach, Luke, Jayne and I went to NYC together - we were hoping to hit up some bars and then have my apartment to crash at. We didn't bother to go up to see the ball drop because it is super duper crowded up there. Unfortunately, we didn't realize that many places would have an expensive cover charge, so we only ended up going to one bar and then to Zach's friends apartment in Brooklyn, where he was having a party (which was still fun)!
Before we went out we were pre-gaming with Jayne's bottle of Kinky Liquor she got for Christmas, in chocolate shot glasses Zach got as a Christmas gift from work.
Apparently, I was the only one who got drunk at the bar...
Shots of tequila!
They had a few jam sessions at Zach's friend Ciro's house in Brooklyn, and I tried to use his fish-eye lens over my iPhone camera. It half worked, half didn't. The pictures still came out cool looking though, I'd say :)
Last weekend, the four of us went down to Atlantic City to gamble and have dinner and get free drinks :) We went to the new casino Revel, and some restaurant outside of it (Oyster House? Something like that, I can't figure out the name of it, though) where my Caesar salad was one of the least expensive items on the menu - at $9 - but was delicious. I do want to try their Pomme Frites, though, if we ever go back there. Revel was a really nice, fancy casino. I didn't win anything there, but Jayne pretty much evened out by the end of the night.
On my last post I posted some photos of NYE last year, so I'll post something else from that same role of film from this time last year.
I can't believe this was a year ago! Ironically, we were all hanging out in Seaside. We can't even really go on the boardwalk there, still, today (since Sandy). It's a bitter sweet photo. And look at all that hair on Zach's head! I know it's blurry, I still have problems focusing my Konica sometimes, haha. Oops :)
Melissa.
