Graduation 2013 NYC

Where to start?

So much crammed into 5 days.

Bear with me, so I can tell

local friends and bloggie friends.

Arrived on Tuesday to face humidity that

curled brillo padded my hair, and ran rivulets down my back.

Wednesday was Yankee Stadium Graduation

 for the entire university and on the walk there I met

Blake for the first time.

After a sardine packed train 

where I had stranger's body parts

 pressed against mine for 40 minutes, 

we arrived at the stadium 

and I met up with parents of roommates

 to sit in nose bleed seats and weep in unison.

The graduates don't walk, they stand as a group

 according to their schools and we all go crazy.

What happens when there are 40,000 students

 in a university, and 1/4th of them are graduating.

You meet in Yankee Stadium.

How cute is this?

This was their first date...at...

Yankee Stadium

Some Tisch friends

The large group split up after the ceremony and 

Blake and Hannah decided they

wanted not to go fancy, but to go to their favorite

Pies N Thighs for lunch.

While there, Ben checked in, he had flown in the day before,

and he and Anam were also in Williamsburg, 

they had just eaten at Pies N Thighs, so we met them.

So other, significant other, was met.

Darling Daughter and Dearest Son with their

significant others.

I think my children chose wisely and well. 

Thursday Hannah and I spent the day 

having makeovers at Sephora, 

shopping like fools and making memories.

We were caught in a horrible thunderstorm, soaked to the bone, and loved every minute.

Friday was the Tisch salute at Radio City music hall,

for just Tisch graduates, and still they did not walk,

 but stood in groups as their concentrations were called.

The keynote speaker Glenn Mazzara was fabulous.

Glenn Mazzara

worth listening to..great advice

Bono and Denzel Washington were at the end of my row,

and to those of you who will understand all too well...

I successfully avoided those family folks I did not wish to see.

Ben sat with me and shared the moments with me.

Perfect

NYC

I went up and down a thousand subway steps,

and covered a zillion uneven miserable concrete blocks,

 I swear.

I took to carrying small foldable slippers in my purse and

swapped shoes frequently.

Frequently the young folk were 1/2 block ahead with one or

the other turning back and stopping.."are you Ok?"

I was either soaking wet in rainstorms or soaking wet with sweat,

my photo ops are awful...but I don't care.

We ate at favorite haunts, shopped at neighborhood stores and

I really got the sense of her life in Brooklyn.

We saw Ben and Anam here and there,

they had friends to see and catch up with also, 

and we had the worst Italian

something? cocktail in a very pretty spot... my bad choice

Ben you were right....

Late my last night there Blake, Hannah 

and I headed far into Brooklyn to go to Target 

and get apt stuff ( mama's treat)

and passed an exterior craft show closing up and 

we picked up fried Oreos and a funnel cake.

From sweating bullets to 40 degrees and freezing that night. CRAZY.

We had pizza and beer in her tiny apt and dined 

around Brooklyn and Manhatten on quiches, 

great burgers, chopped salads, chinese takeout,

gelatos and good coffees.

I was up at 3:45 a.m. Sunday to get an express bus 

to the airport and Hannah insisted on going

 as far as the Port Authority with me.

Such a sweetie that girl.

It was wonderful.

It was everything I hoped it would be.

My children are prosperous,

hard working, healthy, happy, 

and in love.

Mama is bursting with joy.

All is right with my very small world. 

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