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6.16.2006

The Best Week Ever

We just returned from a much needed and much anticipated vaca to New York to visit family, as well as to celebrate Jenae and her dad's birthdays (one day apart). In addition to a week in New York, we were able to spend a couple days in Boston and Connecticut. Since we happened to be in the relative neighborhood of the Northeast, Jenae partnered with Viridian Group and a local client of theirs to shoot the dedication ceremony for the 'Teddy Ebersol's Red Sox Fields' (read more about it here and here).

This was such an historical and emotional event (despite the freezing temperatures and Old Testament style flooding), I was honored just to be her assistant for the shoot and hang out (ok, stand near) with current and former Red Sox players and team executives; and legendary political leaders and legendary business leaders. A truly unforgettable experience.

En route back to New York we stopped off in Hartford, Connecticut to visit a dear friend and Jenae's former roommate. We actually spent the evening with her in New Haven, home of Yale University. New Haven was such a cool and beautifully scenic place. We were able to do a little IKEA-ing and hang out in downtown during their annual International Festival of Arts and Ideas with a "Concert on the Green" and ate a very good vegetarian restaurant, Cornercopia.

All of this was just in the first 48 hours . . . and the best was yet to come:

Radiohead : Madison Square Garden Theatre : 06-13-06
(The opening band, The Black Keys, absolutely rocked; read review's of the show here and here)

I will never be the same after this show. I can't begin to put in to words what this was like, so I'll let the pictures do the communicating for me instead . . .


this was The Best Week Ever.
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