We celebrated it by a semi-impromptu trip to NYC via Amtrak. What'd we do? Eat, walk, sleep, and hang out together. Essentially, what we do on a daily basis, but this time without our pup (who was having a staycation of his own with our awesome friends), and in a cool hotel. It was perfect.
Speaking of which: The Ace Hotel > The Standard. If you want tiny rooms at exorbitant prices, the feeling of sleeping in a pod (if you can sleep at all with all the noise and thin walls), being surrounded by pretentious and a-hole tourists, and total disinterest from staff, go stay at the Standard. If you want to feel like you're in an awesome library that happens to have a bar and great coffee (Stumptown) and really comfortable chairs, living in a anything from a dorm to a sweet studio apartment, and have really nice people everywhere, the Ace Hotel is the way to go.
What else? Oh yeah, we got matching glasses frames from Moscot on Orchard - our man Frank was hilarious and set us up (and convinced us we have to visit his native Colombia). People we saw (read: I saw, pointed out, and explained to him who they were): Connie Wang of Refinery29 and Waris Ahluwalia. We also visited my friend Norm at the Coffee Foundry, checked out Self Edge, and shopped at Opening Ceremony. Things we bought there: a pack of Happy Socks for him a bracelet for me, and a case of "Help, I Have Nausea" pills. We're hip and we know it.
The only things I wish we had done that we didn't was eat even more and made it to LFCC on Sunday morning. Next time.
TEN YEARS!!! 2014 is kind of a big deal for me.
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