Spelunking In Brooklyn!

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Originally uploaded by Wootinie

There's a tunnel below Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, and every so often, you can take a tour of it. This summer, we found out about it in time and made a point of doing some spelunking in the middle of downtown Brooklyn. You enter the tunnel through a manhole located in the middle of Atlantic Avenue (they block off the traffic for you). There's a narrow tunnel that takes you to an opening where they've piled up dirt and made rickety wooden stairs (which is why you sign a waiver beforehand!) so you don't have to climb down a rusty chain ladder like they did when they discovered the tunnel back in 1980. It was built back in the late 1800s and went through a lot of drama before being sealed up by a politician who claimed it had been destroyed. There was a lot of information to absorb, so obviously it didn't all sink in. But they've got a website with more information and better pictures than the ones I put up on my flickr page... (Flash made everything too bright, and I didn't have a tripod, so all my natural-lit pictures came out dark and blurry...)

Frank & Lauren Tie The Knot

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Originally uploaded by Wootinie

So Frank and I went to my friend Frank's wedding this Saturday. The ceremony was at Our Lady Of Hope church in Queens, and the reception was over in Long Island at Jericho Terrace. Man, that place is swanky! Crazy impressive spread, seven choices for dinner and a wide open bar. Yay for open bar! Giovanni brought his 87-year-old cousin Anna Theresa, and she was exactly as awesome as a feisty old Italian woman should be. Fun! The only complaint I would have about the entire evening was that the DJ played the music so loud that you could feel the bass in your chest. There's more pictures on my flickr page if you're curious!