I ventured into the shower sometime around 8am. I’m not quite sure if I actually got any sleep. I was actually wide awake. After the shower, I got dressed and felt completely refreshed and ready for action. It wasn’t until around 11am, when we were sitting at Balu for brunch, that I realized I was probably still drunk. Bulu had the most amazing Eggs Bennie that I’ve had in a long time, and while it may be the drunk talking, I felt ready to tackle another day in the city. Mira and I said bye to Connie and Dave and ventured into the city.

We met up with Max and John, who were eating a BBQ lunch on the Upper West Side. Mira, constantly alerting us to her craving for New York City Cheesecake, ushered us on to our new mission. John and I spent the day choreographing meet ups with various friends in the city. Chris Morris, one of my good friends from college, got a hold of me while we were in the Museum of Natural History, and we made plans to meet up later in the weekend. We made it up to Artie’s Deli, where John met up with Ashley and I had my brief encounter with Justine. Mira finally got her cheesecake, and then I realized that I had to bring her to Brooklyn AND catch the 4 up to Yankee Stadium. At 4pm, I realized the rest of my day would be spent underground. Getting Mira to Brooklyn was simple, but the 4 train up to the stadium for the make up game due to the rain delay was hell. My train didn’t even have AC. I’m trying not to remember those details for now…

I arrive at the game sometime around the third inning. Josh Roberts, another friend from Syracuse, was there along with Max, John and Ashley. We watched the game and it was nice to see John really enjoy it. He cheered the loudest when Jeter hit a “classic Jeter” hit over the head of the second baseman. Jeter had a few hits in the game – and would eventually become the career hit leader at Yankee Stadium a few days later. As the close game progressed, we got to see Joba Chamberlain pitch and Mariano Rivera came out for the save. As this was the last game I’ll ever see – after countless ones before it – it was nice to see classic moments from Jeter, and a save by Mariano.

After the game, we headed down to the East Village where we bar hopped. I got in touch with Chris Morris where we met up with him for a bit. Chris and I made plans for Sunday night, and then our group ultimately went our separate ways. We bar hopped for a while, I got some Pizza, and we just spent the time having the normal idle chatter that John, Max, and I are famous for. All in all, it was a great night – that ended with me crashing at Josh’s house and staying up all night telling him about the various things going on in my life: the start up, girls, etc etc. Again, the sun was rising as I slowly laid my head down on the pillow for what I hoped would be some sleep…