Mitch and Alex Kelly: September 2010

Quiz Night

Our New Favorite Bar: PACIFIC STANDARD

so this bar called pacific standard was brought to our attention by our friends drew and anna. drew's from cali and went to school with mitch in pullman. go cougs! so what makes this bar so cool? they show pac10 games {their hard to find in NYC} and they have good beer on draft {most places have blonds and heffs with MAYBE one IPA} we are talking 17 beers on tap including like 6 IPAs and browns and stouts and meads... whoa. so mitch went to watch the CAL game with drew and anna on saturday and i met up at the end after work {they are VERY intense about Cal} and we decided to come back the next night for Pub Quiz.

so we were warned that it's CRAZY hard. the bartender said to bring the smartest people we know. {we didn't we just brought ourselves} boo

Drew and Justin "acting natural"

okay - so here's how it works: 4 rounds - 10 questions each plus a bonus beer tasting round. round one: tough {definition of "tough": loosers of the Nobel that should have won} yeah - bad. mitch however, dominated. round 2 was oxymorons. round 3 was general and i FINNALY got one! what was Kirsten Dunst's first critically acclaimed film? the boys didn't know - but i did. interview with a vampire. yep, i did more than just drink my great divide 14th anniversary IPA... i contributed. i also knew one in round 4. and i helped with the beer tasting bonus round. super fun. repeat for sure!

DUMBO

and no, not the elephant.

we went to dumbo {Down Under the Manhattan Brooklyn Overpass} yesterday for their arts bonanza extravaganza! and boy was it!

i thought it would be street fair{y} but it wasn't - so much better

there was a dance festival going on in the new brooklyn bridge park.

we stayed and watched 4 performances.

i couldn't choose between these 2 - mitch said to put them both in - so i did

one of the galleries was taken over by a maze made out of boxes - cardboard boxes - stacked on top of one another. we tried to do it... but we ended up exiting out of the entrance. woops.

we went into all sorts of galleries and warehouses and places that weren't galleries but were trasformed for the weekend.

the best was this boxing gym with a couple rings and punching bags hanging all over the place and it was filled with art. paintings of boxers and boxing events and photographs... so cool.

there was also this cool spot called Smack Mellon that provides studio spaces. there was one photographer that shot slide film with a manual advance and created these panarama images in slides... the artist was there and was talking about how he does it by manualy advancing the film while moving the camera in the other direction - his stuff is wild - you can see it at www.kwabenaslaughter.com if you're interested.

me and mitch can't wait to come back. there's a theater we want to go to that's in a warehouse called st. ann's warehouse theater that looks way cool.

this is a jazz club - we want to come back here too. we signed up on there e-mail list so they're going to send us 2 tickets to an upcoming show - cool cool

2 year anniversary

September 20th

for our 2 year anniversary we ran away to montauk for a couple days. its at the very tip of long island. we took the train out {the Long Island Railroad - also known as the LIRR} it's suposed to be a 4 hour ride {we packed LOADS of reading material - that mitch carried}

so we went to church on sunday morning of the 19th and then made our way to the atlantic pacific terminal to catch our train to Jamaica {ps: so NOT a tropical island} and transfer to a montauk bound train. so far so good. we got on our first train and we start moving {this is at about 12:30pm} and the ticket guy comes through to punch our tickets... he looks at our tickets and looks at us "do you know when you catch your transfer?" he asks us with a concerned edge... "no" we respond without a care in the world. the next train for montauk leaves at 9:30pm we quickly dicovered - 9 hours from now... hmmm.

i love my husband. he was so cool as a cucumber and was just like no worries. he got into his phone and looked for a quicker way to get there {which we/he - i was reading} couldn't find. so he called the owner of the B&B we booked to let him know we would be getting in at around 12:30 {which was fine} and we slowly made our way there.

when we ventured out of the train station at Jamaica to get food we were bombarded. people were trying to sell cab rides like guys on canal street sell rolex and prada - way scetch - we stepped out and we here low wispers "taxitaxitaxitaxitaxi"

the best stop was Babylon

it was a cute little town with a small lake and we got to sit and watch the sun set

we were reminded of some thing quite critical on our journey: WE ARE BAD PACKERS - and bad is being nice. i think once upon a time mitch was a good packer - and i think that he's still a good packer at heart... but i bring out the bad packer in mitch. for a 2 day trip we were both carrying 3 bags a piece: we each had a duffle, i had a messanger bag and our toiletries bag, and mitch had nice clothes for dinner in a hanging bag and was super sweet to carry a bag containing 10 magazines {3 were september issues - i know, i'm a horrible person} 4 books and my camera - it was heavier then the duffles... maybe combined... horrible. we each brought 4 pairs of shoes... i don't know what we were thinking...

we promised each other we would work on the packing thing...

the adventure was still good - it just would have been a lot easier and more fun without being hindered by all of our stuff. and as far as it taking 9 hours... as weird as it sounds - it was FUN - it was all part of the adventure

once it got dark we grabbed pizza by the slice - mine was amazing - it was a BBQ chicken with bacon.... yumyum. and then before we knew it we were at the babylon station waiting for our next train!

we got to the B&B at about 12:30 as scheduled and woke up early the next morning to enjoy the day. happy anniversary to us!

the Bed & Breakfast that we stayed at was the Sunrise Guest House. it was super cute!

this is where we ate our continental breakfast - with our killer veiw

N A T U R E

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w i l d l i f e

the rock/sand formation from the water was so cool. mitch climbed up and posed for me

okay. so we were warned before we left brooklyn, and by some of the other guests at the b&B, that the water is dangerous now. the waves are too close together which makes for VERY dangerous surfing conditions {good thing we weren't planning on surfing} and the under current was crazy strong. we discovered this to be true - and were SUPER careful

"Look at this one- it's gonna be good!"

yep

totally got knocked over - it was so crazy - for some of it i had to hold on to mitch or i got carried away. i felt very safe though. mitch has life guard training and is fully certified. plus: he has zero body fat and doesn't float - he was my anchor... as in life really...