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"A view from the High Line. Cool, huh? Seems like all you do when meeting up with someone in Manhattan is eat and/or drink. Occasionally you&amp;amp;#8217;ll sit in the park, go for a jog together, or see a movie or show, but my social life really revolves around what I put in my stomach. It&amp;amp;#8217;s unhealthy. So it was refreshing when, on Sunday, my friend Anne suggested we meet on the High Line. The High Line is an elevated railway built in the 1930s and turned into a public park. I put on my sunscreen and everything, but about two minutes into the walk, it began to rain. Oh, yeah! That&amp;amp;#8217;s why it&amp;amp;#8217;s hard to meet up anywhere in NYC and not go for a drink or a meal. Somehow you&amp;#x27;re supposed to see in between the buildings or something. Sorry...I still don&amp;#x27;t get it. Rain forced us into this random indoor marketplace called Chelsea Market. We shared a ginormous cookie, browsed racks of clothes, and discovered silly things&amp;amp;#133; Anne always finds ways to humiliate me&amp;amp;#8212;and record it! Of course I go along with it. This frame is part of Magnificent Specimens, a collection of photographer Dave Mead&amp;#x27;s World Championship beard and mustache portraits, at the market through June 30th. It occurred to me at some point that Anne and I were on something resembling a date. It wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t just &amp;amp;#8220;hanging out&amp;amp;#8221; because we were doing and discovering&amp;amp;#133;those are dating activities. But it was fun being tourists. We&amp;amp;#8217;re rarely that far over on the west side of Manhattan. Inevitably, after killing time in the market, it was still raining. We high-tailed it to the nearest bar and drank wine. And ate fries. Typical. I had a good time, though, and at least we tried to do something different. But the weather&amp;amp;#133;I tell ya, that&amp;amp;#8217;s why I drink! What&amp;amp;#8217;s something touristy you can do in your town? Is drinking the primary default activity? Do you do &amp;amp;#8220;datey&amp;amp;#8221; things with friends? P.S. Anne, I&amp;amp;#8217;ve never been to Ellis Island. Date? More Ways to Get Glamour Visit ShopGlamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter! Add us to your iGoogle homepage."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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