perfect ny weekend

adios, summer, we loved you so. the last weekend of summer was gorgeous in the city, warm weather and fewer people, and i loved every minute of it. had breakfast (thanks, l. & l.) and lunch with some friends on saturday, after which i went to sit in the nearby plaza with a book. while i was there i saw three brothers of different ages, dressed identically. i don't know why it bothers me, but it totally does - i have issues when parents dress twins the same way, but twins get away with it for a while. here, the boys were like 10,8, and 5 - it was just interesting. and then sunday... ah, sunday. a day of truly nothing - read some, watched a great movie (aqueelah and the bee) and did nothing else, it was absolutely lovely. yesterday was fun, spent the whole day getting a tan (rats) at the open. roddick got an easy by, but thankfully we got to see the blake-haas match. we sat through the first 3 sets, and then decided to get a glimpse of davydenko, with the understanding that if somehow haas won the 4th, we'd come back. of course, by the time we sat down for davydenko, haas had blown through blake 4-0 in the 4th, it was insane. we literally ran back to ashe and caught the 5th set, and what a set it was! both haas and blake played really well in the 5th, even though they blew chances earlier. the crowd was heavily pro-blake, but a few of us just wanted tommy to pull it out. finally, in a final-ditch tiebreak, he did. a solid 8 hours of tennis and i wanted more! so i came home and watched federer play the total cutie feliciano lopez. the kid is 26 and gorgeous (he's a spaniard). lopez did well early on, but then federer just laid into him, in true r-fed style. all in all, a wonderful weekend full of friends, tennis, and entertainment - what more can a girl ask for!