November, But Not All of It

If you follow my socials, you probably know I had a rather amazing Thanksgiving adventure. But Thanksgiving is not the only thing there is in November! Let me show you other great stuff about the month!

November 2: Sometimes the weather isn’t on your side and Halloween parties have to be moved to the first weekend in November! Kristin threw a Tim Burton-themed party and I went as Batman. Please trust that I have a Batman t-shirt on because I did buy it for the party.

November 3: Had a nice walk through Inwood Park, met a caterpillar.

November 8: Jesse organized a food-crawl through Flushing. Ate at a lot of places I’d never been to before, had some spectacularly spicy noodles in the basement of a mall.

November 11: Hosted an FHE with a pretty strong turn out.

November 14: For Owen’t birthday I went and checked on the chaos that was the failed launch of the latest Aime Leon Dore New Balance collection. Sometimes you’ve just got to accept you’re not getting a cool pair of shoes.

November 19: Can art and lights at the mall by work, pizza with Victoria. I tell you the ketchup-based chop cheese pizza at Lions and Tigers and Squares is NOT for the faint of heart and Sauce is a totally underrated chill place to eat and hang.

November 21: the second biggest thing to happen in November was Mom and Dad’s visit to New York. It’s crazy, while they were here I didn’t even know I was about to have a major Thanksgiving adventure. “Life comes at you fast”, isn’t that what they say? Anyway: Night 1 we balled out of control at Babbo and it was great. Too dark in there for good pictures but let me just say that the waiter stopped taking our order before we even got to entrees. He didn’t know the ambitions we had.

November 22: Dinner at Leña at Hudson Yards, but first: a climb up the Vessel in the cold wind!

November 24: This was big. Got up, rented a car in the West Village, drove out to Oyster bay to visit Sagamore Hill (Teddy Roosevelt’s house), walked to the water, checked out Flushing Meadows Park and the Queens Museum, then had a smash-hit dinner at Mu Ramen in Long Island City and, after dropping off the car, finished off with a little Big Gay Ice Cream.

November 25: After church I showed Mom and Dad Camp and it was absolutely out of control. Then we got burgers at the Usual, corn at Cafe Habana, and a dessert of mushroom salad, fried chicken, and potato chips & ice cream at Oiji. And then I guess that was that for a great visit!

November 27: Here are photos I took after work after having finalized my plans and ticket for an amazing adventure. Halfway home from work I’d realize I had let my passport at the office. So I went back and got it, there was nothing to it, actually.

Ok, hope to be back soon with a Mexico City post! That was the adventure, if you didn’t already know!