B-B-B-Bennie and the J-E-T-S!

This weekend was quite eventful and the days just seemed to fly by! 

On Friday night, Tom and I went to dinner with his brother, Joe, and three of Joe's friends.  We went to a BYO in Hoboken and it is becoming the front runner in my favorite restaurants in town.  It is called Margaritas - serving delicous Italian food!  We brought some great wine and from my estimation, each of us enjoyed all of our entrees.  But before we met up with everyone, Tom stopped by my apartment with a surprise!

Now, for those of you who followed along with my Ireland emails, you will remember that I of course missed my family so much but I also missed my dog a ton too.  I would always see people walking with their dogs and I just really missed Misty because unlike my family, I couldn't talk to her and tell her that I missed her (although, I have to be honest, sometimes on my Skype calls home, my parents and brothers and sisters would put the speaker phone on and I would try to talk to Misty haha!).

I mean, look at this face -how could you not love her!

Anyway, in Hoboken, everyone has a pup.  Which makes me again, miss the Mist.  I have come to realize that until you have a dog, you don't really know what it is like to go any length of time without them.  For 19 years of my life, I would have never thought twice about being away from an animal - as we never had pet in our house.  Then, sophomore year of college, our lives changed dramatically with the addition of that goldendoodle! 

So, of course, I say about 30 times a week that I miss my dog/want to get one.  I am quickly snapped back into reality due to A.) the cost of a 4-legged best friend B.) the fact that I am at work a majority of the day and cannot give the dog the attention that it needs and C.) our apartment comfortably fits three and adding another roommate might make things a bit cramped! 

That's where the surprise comes in.  I'd like you to meet Bennie, Bennie the Betta Fish.

Tom got me a fishie! He's a cute little guy, isn't he!  Tom said that since I can't get a dog, a fish would be the next best thing!  Which it is!  So - thank you! :)

Then on Saturday, I went into NYC to go to Macys to look for two dresses for the two weddings I am attending in October.  It was quite a wonderful experience as all of the dresses are sorted by color and they have what seems to be hundreds of dresses to pick from!  After trying on about 20 dresses - I found two that I absolutely loved and you will get to see them with the pictures that come along with the weddings - so give it about a month! :)

That brings us to Sunday.  As luck would have it, Tom (and his colleagues) was given two club seats to the Jets game, as a "thank you" from the organzation for his (their) hard work.  Unfortunately, he had to work until the end of the 2nd quarter, so I was lucky enough to go with his brother.  Joe and I tailgated (it was such a beautiful day!) with some great food, beers in Jets koozies (compliments of Joe), and a little game of catch with the guys who parked nexted to us (who, by the way, were impressed with my ability to catch a football! I told them that's what having two brothers does for a girl!) Then, Joe and I went into the new stadium for what turned out to be a great game!  Tom came and sat with us just before the end of the 1st half and the three of us watched the rest of the game together. 

We had a great view for such an exciting game!  Jets won, 28-14 over the Patriots!

Here are some more pictures of the tailgate and a few from the stadium! 

So, I would say that is weekends like this past one that give much truth to the 1980s Loverboy song "everybody's working for the weekend!"