If You Don't Have Cards, Improvise!

Central Park on a Saturday is a great place to be. You can people watch until your heart's content and there's always something going on to entertain you. We saw people painting which was pretty cool (and I was highly jealous that I have no artistic ability so couldn't join them) but we were more content with drinking the very VERY strong sangria that Holly had made for us! We ate the fruit afterwards and I nearly passed out from it! Apparently it had been soaked in brandy for over a day ha! We had Peanut with us and he was loving life when he met his match in a tiny Toy Poodle. She was adorable and we couldn't believe she was actually smaller than Peanut but was three years old! We then went to check out the roller disco that was taking place in the park (lots of rather interesting characters there I can tell you). We were just about to leave when someone came up to me and went 'Jo??' and it was two guys I went to Secondary School with!! I couldn't believe it! One of them now lives in New York and the other was just visiting on his way back from 10 month's in Whistler - what are the chances! Just goes to show what a small world we live in. That evening we went over to the meat packing district to a bar called Brass Monkey's which was great. As soon as we walked in they were playing Fall Out Boy so I knew I was going to like it. Holly then suggested we play a drinking game so I thought we should play Ride the Bus! But the only problem was, we had no cards! So I suggested we make a deck out of napkins!! So that we did! We managed to lure in the rest of the people on our table into playing and managed one round before the 'cards' got soaked and we realised that they were going to be mighty tricky to shuffle.....anywho, we then played none card drinking games and they ran a lot smoother! The following day avec mild hangover, we went to see Ashley's friend Brenna for brunch then went back to her apartment which looked over Ground Zero. The view was amazing and we also taught Peanut how to swim on her roof garden. It was so funny and it's safe to say that he wasn't a fan of the water!