NYE in NYC

Hey y'all! Hope you're enjoying the first few days of 2011! To celebrate my first year in the City for New Years Eve, I had to go out, even though I knew to expect crazy crowds and overpriced bar parties, it's all part of the experience. 


On December 31 I did everything in my power to avoid midtown, getting home from work on the 30 was bad enough, thank GOD my work was closed on the 31. Katie works in midtown as well and she said it was crazy! Even though it's usually a mess in midtown during the holidays, we kind of miss the crowds uptown...not on NYE! It was packed up here too! We decided that Gossip Girl is to blame, making the Upper East Side a tourist destination. 


Anyways, I got to see a few friends from college thanks to the holiday! On Thursday, I offered my couch up to my friend Brad who is finishing up a cross country road trip in NYC. After he left Thursday morning, I met up with 2 of my best friends from college (+ 1 boyfriend) for lunch. Katie got out of work early so she got to join as well. It was great to catch up! Jess was staying with us for the night to go out partying!


That night, we got all dolled up, ordered 2 pizzas (Katie thought ahead for leftovers) and played Apples to Apples while pregaming....catching 2 cabs was a little difficult, the trick is to catch them on the Streets, not the Avenues (where everyone else is). After I caught us a cab we had the most terrifying cab ride I've ever been on, we got from 83 St. to 10 St. in about 15-20 min, ON NEW YEARS EVE! Terrifying. 


We made it out alive and went to get into the bar...all of us are 23 or 24 year old college graduates, the bouncer did NOT believe that Jess was 21! He asked for 2 credit cards because the first one's signature didn't match the signature on her license. Redic. The bar, however, was great. We went to 13th Step in the East Village and it was actually not crowded because it was huge inside! That was a nice surprise. The drinks were kind of weak (expected that because we all paid ahead of time) but it's fairly hard to water down beer without people noticing so eventually we were all drinking beer. 


All in all it was a good party with great people. Made it home safe and no hangover on Saturday! It was a successful first (of many) New Years Eve's in New York City!