Crashing the NY Party

After the gavel fell, we were talking about what we wanted to do. We had an invitation for a party, but it didn't look very exciting. Julie and I were both exhausted from lack of sleep, however, we had so much fun at the Lifetime party the night before, we wanted to keep on truckin'! While walking out of the Pepsi center, we saw signs for a NY delegation party. I said, this is a once in a life time experience, we need to do what we can. We followed the signs out to the NY buses. One guy asked us where our button was but then said - go ahead and get on the bus. We had to check in and said that we lost our NY buttons. We only had to fill out a form with our name and they gave us the NY button. Since both Julie and I had lived in NY we figured that we could try to pass off as New Yorkers. She suggested calling herself Art Vandalay. I told her that it would be full of middle aged Jews and I would fit in just fine. And I was right. It was full of middle age and older Jews and African Americans. There may have been some others but those were few and far between. There was even a guy wearing a streimel (beaver hat) and peyos (side curls). I think that he was speaking Russian to some Orthodox guy.

The best thing for me is that there was finally some food that I could eat! They served whitefish salad stuffed in cucumber and cheese baked mini-potatoes. They also had corn beef sandwiches which looked delicious but I doubted were kosher. A big change from the Texas Delegation party which served bar B Q and shrimp. Plus the NY party had delicious desserts including cheese cake, eclairs etc. I was in my element!

We wound up sitting by a State Assembly man from Crown Heights. He told us that only two CDs in NY went for Obama, his and another in Brooklyn. We got stuck in the elevator with the Governor. He was so nice and allowed me to take a picture with him. Then he told Julie to give her camera to his aide and we took a picture of the three of us. He was so very gracious!

And the art at the museum was great. I recommend the Denver Contemporary Art Museum if you head up here.