Date Night

My husband B. and I met in fall of 2006.  We had our first date in NYC at the Flatiron Lounge on October 20, 2006 to be exact.  Since then, we've had lots of great dates and adventures.  Here's a look at some of the best.

The first movie we saw together was the James Bond film Casino Royale at the Union Square cineplex.  An hour and a half in, the movie reel disintegrated.  After a failed attempt to get it going again, the staff announced that we would receive free movie coupons to return at a later date.  After worming our way through the mob scene to grab two tickets, we dashed down to the second floor to catch an screening of  Casino Royale that was running about 40 minutes behind the movie we just left.   Great movie!  And we have yet to use those free movie tickets. 

The second movie stub was from a viewing of The Natural at the Tribeca Film Festival.  I won the tickets courtesy of my job at ESPN and there was a special Q&A session afterward with director Barry Levinson by ESPN personality Jeremy Schaap.  It was a long, torturous interview session and Schaap should stick to his day job.  Fun fact, my last office at ESPN was next door to Jeremy Schaap's office.  

Below are the playbills to three shows we saw the summer before Little N came along.  First, we saw Avenue Q, which was pretty raunchy for a Muppet themed show.  Next, we saw In The Heights, which was amazing, and then Wicked, an electrifying production.

The first time either of us went to Carnegie Hall was for this Jazz concert featuring our good friend Thierry Arpino on drums.  Thierry's wife is one of my closest friends from b-school.  The group was so-called after Jean-Luc Ponty, the master violinist and musician who began the group.

We've gone to many sporting events and here are ticket stubs to our first Yankees game, a Red Sox game, and the U.S. Open.  We attended the 2008 Super Bowl but since my Patriots lost, I'm not including that ticket.

We're bigger sports fans than music fans but we have gone to a few concerts.  B's college friend's brother is in
 Gogol Bordello, a show we saw in WIlliamsburg at the famed McCarren Park Pool.  We caught Coldplay in Hartford.  Fantastic show!  Grand Baton is another one of Theirry's bands and the Knitting Factory is a NYC institution for underground music.

You can't say we don't appreciate variety - Art Institute of Chicago, Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, and International Spy Museum in Washington D.C.

Alas, the one good thing about our Super Bowl weekend was the ESPN pre-party.  Ludacris - not bad.

Bill Clinton is an articulate and engaging speaker and it is no wonder he was elected president twice.  That man has a master personality, as well as, being one of the most intelligent people I've ever heard.  Clinton spoke about the inter-dependency of all of the countries, the energy situation, health care, Aids, and poverty at home and abroad.