Memorial Day Weekend is for Rooftops

Friday night Sabrina had a bunch of people over to her mom's apartment on the east side for home made lasagna. It felt so good to eat a huge plate of lasagna at the end of the workweek. Lasagna is something I haven't had a lot of while in New York. It demands time, care, and kitchen space--scarce things around here sometimes. After we ate our lasagna we went up to the roof for dessert. Everyone flipped over the view and the sunset.

(Blog housekeeping item of note: beginning with this post, I figured out how to get my photo captions on top of the pictures, which is the way I like it because you can read the description as you see the picture, not after it. Posts before this have captions beneath the picture, but those days are behind us.)

Sabrina, our host.

Becky and Liz, fellow rooftop early adopters.

I want to know about this penthouse. It must be like living in a cathedral in there.

Alexis.

Beau.

Hi neighbor!

Tali, Shan, Terra.

Brook and Nicole.

Brandon, Julie, Bryan. Everyone trying to get the sweetest sunset pic.

Maria and Kristi.

Terra and Bryan.

Dave, Hillary, Kristi.

Becky.

Terra, Chad, Kristi.

Then I headed downtown and met up with Natalie for a minute. She really likes her new glasses (not pictured).

And then snapped pictures all the way home.

Saturday I had lunch at Ssam Bar, watched Frozen at Andy's, checked out the line for free cones at Morgenstern's, and saw this Mexico City movie called Gueros with Broek. But I've only got two pictures to show for it.

These are the "Breakfast Rice Cakes" with tomato, Chinese sausage, and fried egg.

The above-mentioned happenings at Morgenstern's.

On Sunday the Jason formerly known as Elder Hinds showed up at church, I hadn't seen him since he was a missionary her in the city in 2006. I could not believe it had been that long, he could have told me he served here in 2010 and I would have believed him. 

Then I ran down from church to Claire and Evan's rooftop barbecue, which at that point had been going on for nearly two hours because I GO TO CHURCH SUPER LATE.

Step out on the roof and the first person I see? Emily. Who does NOT live in New York. But what a small world Claire and Evan's roof can be!

Ben has a cool new haircut.

Renee.

Jeff and Dakota's annual Good Shepherd portrait.

Sheen and Broek.

Ty and Sara. As it usually goes with Claire and Evan's roof, I forgot to get any pictures of our hosts.

On Monday I worked and then I went to a little gathering at Angelique's, but it wasn't on a roof. So no pictures. But it is worth noting that Lauren is in town, as illustrated in this lunchtime photograph: