Friends are Fun!

This weekend Chad and Maria came to visit us. They flew in Thursday morning and are here until Sunday morning. Today we headed off to Coney Island where we did Nathan's Famous and then the New York Aquarium. Coney Island's amusement park part is being torn down at the end of the summer and rebuilt with new attractions and luxury condos. It was fun, but we're not too sad that it's being re-developed. It's kind of rinky dink. Also, we were not able to find the Genie machiene from Big. But, the hot dog's made it all worth the trip. Chili dogs, bacon cheddar dogs, saurkraut,...let's just say our arteries are screaming, but our bellies are happy.

The aquarium was cool, too. All sorts of jelly fish, sharks, weird fish and the biggest manta ray I've ever seen.

After all that fun we headed back to Manhattan for dinner. We tried to get into a place we like to get wings at, Scruffy McDuffy's, but it was super crowded with the Friday-just-got-off-work crew. So, we headed next door to Kevin St. James Restaurant(http://www.kevinstjames.com/media/kevinstjames.html). It's in the district called Hell's Kitchen. Aparently, according to our waitress, gets its name from it's past of being an area of town for prostitutes and other people of ill repute. It's not like that any more and is a great area of town for fun restaurants.

After that we headed to SoHo where we ended up in the funniest little bar (http://www.insiderpages.com/b/3719237626) called Milano's for a few rounds.

Then we headed home and got caught in the rain walking from the bus to our home.

Below are pics of our adventures:

1 - Ryan with a shark

2 - Joanie and Ryan with the fishes

3 - Milano's in SoHo
4 - Nathan's Famous in Coney Island