Last night we went out to Jackson Heights for Peruvian food. I’d never been out there. In some ways, it’s like Astoria, but it’s even more ethnically diverse and it’s certainly less “mainstream.” There seems to be even less of a bar scene out there, but there are tons of little restaurants, and you can hear 5 different languages just walking up the stairs to the subway.

 

Anyway, the place we went had amazing, huge platters food (calamari in spicy avocado sauce, to name one dish) and it was ridiculously cheap. The entire dinner, including a few pitchers of sangria, was less than $70 for the six of us. Which means we may have to move our bi-weekly dinners to Jackson Heights more often!

 

There was also live music, and dancing ensued, and I am always ridiculously giddy after I’ve been dancing, and this in spite of not getting enough sleep.

 

We were discussing our favorite Astoria spots and so some of us are going to Locale tonight. Astoria is so full of fabulous places that I might as well be spontaneous and continue to go out on school nights. Man, I love Queens. I have such borough pride. I saw the official NYC fireworks from the LIC side on Tuesday and had a great time bumming around with Queens-people. We flounced around playing volleyball-with-beach-balls, drank beer, and played with water guns. Oh, and I wore a sundress! I have completed my goal of buying/wearing a summer dress. Wow, two-piece suit AND a sundress, it really was a banner weekend.

 

But I digress. Yeah, there’s a reason that they said that Queens could stay. It’s awesome.