Bachelorette Party!

This weekend I headed to NYC with my friend Marissa and my cousin and maid of honor, Rachael. My friends Aisling and Brianna live in NY and volunteered to throw me a bachelorette party. The two of them have known me for about 15 years through the best and toughest times and I love them like sisters. I knew they would put together something amazing so I was more than thrilled to have them take on that task. I also was not quite sure what to expect, but that always makes it more exciting.

We drove down on Friday night late to Astoria to stay at Aisling's. Saturday we went to Alphabet City to visit Brianna in her new neighborhood and have brunch. We went to a great little place and then decided to take a little tour of the area and go outfit shopping for the evening in Union Square. We each found something cute and proceeded to head back to Queens to meet my friends Leanne and Caitlin who had just arrived from Boston. We got ready and headed to our first stop, Brother Jimmy's. Aisling works here and it is a really fun and friendly BBQ place that did a great job taking care of us with "fish bowls" and frickles (fried pickles). I then was told we would be going somewhere for a "show" and our main meal. The place we went to was called Lucky Cheng's and if you have not been there it is definitely an out of this world experience. It is described as a "downtown drag cabaret dinner theatre", but it is also an interactive experience for parties coming for birthdays, bachelorette parties, etc. Needless to say I became a part of the show on more than one occasion. Details will be left a mystery expect for a select few. I would not say it is the ideal place for all bachelorettes, but I had a great time and it was a hilarious, fun, completley unforgetbale mid point to the evening.

From there we headed out dancing at a place called "The Dark Room". We spent the next couple of hours getting down to our favorite guilty pleasure pop songs before calling it a night jamming out to some Punjabi dance music in the cab ride home. Overall, it was an awesome weekend and I could not have asked for a better group of people to spend it with. We were missing some of our dear ones (Katy, Laurie, Johannah, Brittany Malitsky, Holly and Alexis, etc.), but there is another mini bachelorette party, Boston style, that will hopefully include some of those who could not make it. Otherwise, bring on the wedding festivities! All of my amazing friends are going to be together and I am so excited and touched I will have so many of my loves together with me on my big day in the near future. Thanks so much to all of you made this weekend the best time a bachelorette could ask for! I love you!