Big Weekend

The big weekend started on Friday. We went back to NY in the morning to sign papers for our apartment. So we officially have an apartment! We will get the keys tomorrow and camp there until our box arrives with all of our stuff, probably around the 9th. We're very excited.
Colin had also set up a meetings with at Del Posto and Union Square Cafe. Right after we signed the lease headed down to Del Posto. I waited on a bench in the sun on the bank of the Hudson while Colin met with Mark. Twenty minutes later, he walked out with a job! What a great moment! He is going to be the new Chef de Partie, specializing in fish. He will be working dinner shifts full time, starting this Tuesday. He is so excited and I am so happy for him. Seeing his talent and hard work taking him where he wants to be is so gratifying. We stopped into Union Square next and Colin told the chef there, Carmen Quagliata, that he had just taken the job at Del Posto. After this year of talking, he and Carmen have become friends and will keep in touch and go to the markets together sometimes. It all ended so nicely!
So, an apartment and a job! 2 down, 1 to go. (Job for me.)
Saturday morning we drove up to Essex for Brian and Karen's wedding (Colin's older brother.) It was a gorgeous day and a beautiful wedding. The wedding party had taken over an entire old school hotel and we partied into the night. To top it all off, Colin got to go to a Phish show at Fenway tonight and see a bunch of his old friends.