Another great weekend? You know it!

I decided to turn on the weekend early and got things started off Thursday night! I met my lady friend Cara for drinks...nothing crazy, it was just a nice way to take the edge off the week.

Before I move on to Friday, I should mention that I was going to call this diary entry - Bob & Cara's Weekend. But after writing that down, I thought that might have made everybody sick, ha ha. Better to just write about what we did than having to give an arbitrary title to life. I just wanna live! Ha ha ha.

Friday night we met up in Soho...the plan? To see the band, Gomez. But first, dinner. We were early for the show so we found a cool little place, Soho Park. I'm writing about this place because it was so damn good!


Guess where we sat?

It was an upscale burger joint. Very tasty!

Back to the concert, Gomez. We got there in plenty of time to see the opening act. They were kids, like, 21 or 23 year olds. So, I don't want to crush their dreams by saying something negative but, I was really looking forward to them not playing anymore.

Gomez turned out to be very great. I really enjoyed the show. We stood in the balcony by the railing...we could see everything:

Check it out, roadies!

Just when Gomez had the audience in the palms of their hands...they decided to let the guitarist do a song by himself. This act, set the knucklehead behind us in a tizzy. "This makes me want to kill myself!" "Somebody get me a Zoloft, I'm depressed!" And if he said this once, he said it 20 times. Finally the song was over and they got back to rock 'n' roll! Then, another guitarist sang a solo song! "Hey Gonads!" "Gonads!" - He was really happy with himself over that one. Besides that...I really did enjoy myself. For being a total jerk, I'm naming the guy that stood behind us at the Gomez concert, the bobborden.com A-hole of the Week.

The guy that stood behind us at the Gomez concert is
bobborden.com's A-hole of the Week
-way to go, jerk!

Oh, I almost forgot...there was a celebrity sighting at the show:

Adrian Grenier
(from Entourage)

That was cool, I like that show. He was in the VIP seats - must be nice!

Saturday's plan? The New York Botanical Garden! We took a train up to the Bronx to see the meld of horticulture and blown glass with their Chihuly exhibition. You'll get a better idea after checking out this photo:

Chihuly glass

We had fun, walking around on a crisp fall day. We did think their should have been more glass. In certain areas, it seemed like they just called it in. It was great to people watch -- that was the real show. Turns out, people LOVE blown glass...I overhead some woman say, "Oh my goodness, don't you just love the way the sun makes the crystals sparkle?" Ha ha -- OK!

After the garden, dinner in the city. We found a nice, empty, place. I get up to use the men's room, come back and there's another couple sitting right next to us! Are people really this dumb?! Good lord. I shut them out and enjoyed the meal with Cara. Great times!

Sunday was my day to chill. Laundry, A & P...nothing major.

That's all I got! Have a great day!

Best,

Bob