Life thus far....

Summer is starting to wind down. I'm kind of half sad and half excited. I'm ready for a new season and for things to be less hectic at work. I'm also excited because Tim and I decided that we are going to have another Halloween party this year. Whoo-hoo! In the mean time I have been entertaining my self with various projects and fun things... here is what I have been up to.

our rendezvous point

The Accomplice 
I had heard about this through some librarian friends and it sounded pretty neat. When I came across a groupon for it, I surprised Tim and we got tickets. After my ticket's were purchased I received a phone call from a mysterious person with a very thick New Yorker accent. I was instructed to meet at the South Street Seaport and there I would be contacted by someone. Sure enough the next day I went to the exact spot and a mysterious character approached us asking if we got a message. We were joined by another group of people and the mysterious character gave us an important set of instructions and we were off for a day of adventure.
The Accomplice is part theatre, interactive mystery and city adventure. We were given instructions and clues and together we had to figure it out. The real fun of it was trying to figure out who was in on it and who was just an innocent by stander. I'm not going to give too much away (because spoilers!) but the day involved buy a frog, walking through China town, and trying to locate nefarious characters. It was so much fun! Tim and I both want to do it again with some of our friends. If you every find yourself in NYC then check it out!

Library programs...
The past few weeks at work have been devoted to programing! I am working really hard on all of the Harry Potter stuff because the big program is almost a week away! I made this pretty awesome bulletin board display to promote it. I also featured some contests including a Book Design contest and Horcrux hunt. I'll be posting details about it soon!
I also did a program for the other British thing that I'm ridiculously obsessed with, Doctor Who. You can check out all the details about that adventure here.

My life hasn't been all solving mysteries in the city and work. I got in some r & r when I had a beach day with me and some lady friends. It was nice to just be lazy for an afternoon. I was so relaxed that I forgot to reapply sunscreen and now I'm nursing a pretty painful sunburn!

Doug <3 Movies

May 21. The best last day of the world ever! Me and the hubbins went to the city. We were very excited to see Doug Loves Movies. If u don't know what it is and u like to laugh...shame on u. To quickly get u up to speed it is a hilarious podcast hosted by comedian Doug Benson...and he loves movies. He always has comedians on and they joke about movies and play the Lenard Maltin game. Just go download it!
Anywho, so we got into the city and Tim was starting to get cranky. That means we needed to find some lunch pronto. So we decided on shake shack because it is numerlicious. But on the way there we ran into this weird street fair/food festival in Madison square park..and ba dang dang my tastebuds went to pleasure town. I got an amazing savory truffle mozzarella crepe from a place called bar Suzette. They also had this fried that looked amazing...sadly did not get them :( I. Will have to hunt this place down and get them. Then Tim got this briased sandwhichy thing that was pretty good. We also washed down our meal we these neato sodas with the result of delicious. It was quite a nice surprising thing to come across in the city. We had some time to kill so we hung around the park by this freaky head statue....

Then we made our way over the Gramacy theater. I look forward to listening to Doug Loves Movies every Friday and eases the pain of going to work :( the show was great and really funny as per usual. It was weird to see it in person. I was glad to actually see the physical gags I always get left out of in the audio version. I made a scott pilgrilm name tag sadly I was not chosen :(
I had hunch Chris Hardwick would be one of the guests and ta da he was there yay pictured below. It was a hilarious and a great show and am excited to see him when he comes around again. (Both Doug and Chris)