Friday, December 5, 2008

It's Christmas Time in the City

Last night, I really could've used my camera. Just as we were heading out the door and into Manhattan for the evening, I grabbed it and tried to turn it on. Nothing.

Christmas in New York and my camera battery is dead. It's charging now. ugggghhhhh!!!

Thankfully, I still had my cell, so some of these are once again from my phone while some are from the same event last year to fill in the blanks.

Our dear friends, Lee and Reid Spencer were back in town. (http://msn.foxsports.com/writer/archive?authorId=163). http://www.sportingnews.com/experts/reid-spencer/index.html

We met Lee at Silvercup Studios in Queens, NY when new to Nascar driver Clint Boyer had HBO's The Sopranos for a sponsor. Lee was there to cover the story.

We were there because my Dad was working on the Sopranos at the time and Jimmy is such a huge Nascar fan, Dad invited us. We met Reid at the very next Nascar race that we attended and we attend a lot of them. This was a few years ago already. We met and became fast friends.
The party last night is a yearly Christmas type event for Nascar. They have dinners and meetings. Tonight's their 'big' night. But last night was just a night out at a club in Manhattan with a guest list that consisted of media mixed in with drivers mixed in with, well, us.

Lee and Reid make sure to put us on the guest list in the event we can make it.

We will always make it Spencers. It is such a huge privilege to be invited to this party for the third year in a row. We danced and laughed and had a few libations.

Jimmy saw Clint Boyer, a few other drivers and his favorite Nascar sideline reporter besides Lee, Krista Voda. She gets honorable mention here because he teases me about her all the time but she's just been taken off the market. Krista showed us her engagement ring last night so, sorry Jim.
I even got to take a little something home. This bottle of silver patron was smuggled out of the club. I will not say by whom - but let's just say, we all agreed it absolutely could not stay there all alone on the table after we left.

The first bottle was consumed at the club by just about everyone. The Spencers received some serious VIP treatment and shared all of it.

We graciously benefited. Thanks Spencers for a great time. Next stop Sedona.

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