Our plans revolved around attending Raman's company picnic out at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. I took a half day as his picnic started at 230.
We arrived, had a little food, and realized that everyone Raman knew from work was not at the picnic.......... So we hung around for about an hour then decided to hit the road and see what brooklyn had to offer.
Raman had been mentioning that he wanted to go to Six Points Brewery which was in Red Hook, Brooklyn, so we figured out the route via bus and upped on the M61. Upon arriving we realized we were on the edge of brooklyn within one block from the Ikea (you all know it took everything I had to withheld Raman from going to the Ikea as well that day).
Six Points ended up being a bit of amusement for us as it was not in the best part of brooklyn and was "closed for renovations"......
Lucky for us, there was a dive bar next door which did serve 2 Six Point beers so we decided to embark there instead.
While at Rocky Sullivan's we were unsure if we would just get the heck out of dodge and back to our little sheltered island of manhattan or if we would brave the beast of brooklyn and see what else it could offer. After much deliberation and the help of a trusty i phone app call Alfred, we decided to take brooklyn by the horns and walk up to a mexican placed called Alma. We were not expecting much more then a mediocre taco as thus far we'd learned that NYC is not known for their mexican food, but we decided to give it a try anyways.
To our delight, Alfred gave us an amazing recommendation!! Alma is a corner restaurant/bar that has a beautiful roof deck which houses an completely unobstructed view of Manhattan and the sunset! And to top that off it was amazing and cheap mexican food!! Raman and I walked out of there stuff to the brim with steak fajitas, chicken enchiladas, and fish tacos....
We will for sure be making a trip back to Alma!!!
From that point we were so happy and stuffed with food and booze that we decided the brooklyn bridge looked close enough we would walk to it and back over to Manhattan. We strolled along the water, in and out of various parks that they've built to allow brooklynites and tourists to take it the amazing views of Manhattan! and ended our evening with a night stroll across the Brooklyn bridge! All and all a planned Friday evening turned into a completely spontaneous spectacular event!! Always the best times!!!!
Those mexicans were probably Puerto Ricans
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