NYE celebration

I was house/catsitting for my prof for the last 1.5 week or so and have been quite busy going back and forth between my place and her place while prepping for my trip to Osaka. Been kinda crazy. In the midst of that, I had to arrange to meet our future roomie to arrange her move in and to hang out with M (btw, we went to an interesting bar called Beauty Bar--14th between 3rd and 2nd aves).

Anyway, by the time NYE came around, I was kinda tired. But I have to have fun on NYE, right? Dave came in from CT on the 31st by train. I met him up at Grand Central and we enjoyed dim sum in Chinatown. We went to "Golden Unicorn", and their dim sum was slightly more expensive than the ones we've been to but probably the best one so far. After that, we just chilled at my prof's house, eating very yummy cheesecake and drinking spiced wine and beer. Yes, we started drinking from 3pm in the afternoon!

At night, we had dinner/drink at Heartland Brewery in Union Sq. I don't know what happened but we both felt kinda sick afterwards...maybe too much grease and carbonation... Then, we went to Central Park for midnight run and fireworks. When we got there, there was some dancing going on, and it was fun! free DJ and dancing! Countdown was crappy because it happened 10 seconds after the DJ told us that NY is in 5 minutes, which turned out to be a wrong information. So, I wasn't sure when it turned to New Year... Anyway, they had amazing fireworks!!! It was soooo beautiful. I'm so glad that we went to Central Park for the new year's. :-) Then, we went to a bar in E. Village to drink more (3 drinks and 1 shot) By the time we got back to the apartment at 4am, I was exhausted. But I had a really good New Year celebration!!!!!!!

Now I'm chilling out at my apartment because my flight to Detroit got cancelled and can't fly out to Osaka today.