Over the weekend, Kim and I took a quick trip to New York City.  One of my good friends and college roommate, Fighty, is in a cover band and this weekend was time for their annual booze cruise concert.  We flew in late on Friday night, and after meeting up with Fighty for a couple of late night drinks, we were back to the hotel to rest up for the following day.  Before the big cruise on Saturday, Kim and I took a walk throughout Manhattan and finally ended up at the World Trade Center site.  It has been years since my last trip to NYC and it was nice to see some progress being made, as well as some of the tributes around the site.  It wasn’t the best day for a walk, but it never really rained hard enough to completely soak us.

The cruise was later Saturday night, and it was awesome! 150+ party-goers paid $50 for an all you can drink cruise around NYC.  After the band started playing the hits, we first made our way out to the Statue of Liberty.  We were able to get pretty close to it, definitely the closest I have ever been.  After ten minutes or so there, we headed back toward where we came, and ended up sailing all the way up toward the Empire State Building.  But the best part of it all was the three entertaining hours  of great music.  The crowd was fully into it and the boat was successfully trashed when it was all over.