FR: My Trip to NYC

Okay, so its been a while, heres the breakdown from my trip to NYC which happened a few weekends ago.

So the idea was to meet up with a few of the guys that took a bootcamp with me. It ended up only being three of us, but hey, thats not too bad. So I stroll into NYC at around 9ish, catch a shower and meet up with Brian at the Ganesvoort Hotel. Its a pretty cool place that has a bar up on the top floor. Its got a great outdoor area and a ton of places to move girls, sit down, you name it. So we start out just catching up, its been a while since we've seen each other, but after that we decide its time to get to work. Brian sees a set and heads over to it, I work my way to a group of seven that turns out to be a bridal party (I cant get away from them), the set goes okay. I open with "Herman," general conversation ensues and I keep things going for about 5 minutes then politely leave on a positive note. First one down, that makes life easier. I find Brian in set with two 40 year olds (yeah care to explain that one man?) so I grab my beer and get the hell outta dodge. I walk over to the railing to check out the fantastic view and on my way I notice a 2 set sitting down. I actually had walked past before it clicked that it was a perfect set to open, so I check out the view, then turn around and open with "Herman" (yeah that was my stock opener for the night) The set hooks, I sit down and were off. My target is this cute little Italian chick though her blonde friend isnt bad either. Everything is going well, Brian jumps in and starts winging. Looks like this is going to be a decent set. Brian is doing really well with the blonde, but I seemed to have lost mine somewhere in comfort. I totally need to work on my comfort game, its not up to par. He number closes, the set leaves, I get nothing. Oh well, it went pretty well and I totally did all the hard work anyway. One of the other guys from the bootcamp, Jarret, links up with us and more catching up ensues. We hit a few more sets that go pretty well until ...

So I open this 4 set, things dont go so well, but thats okay because some random girl (probably a 6) comes over and opens me. Shes hanging out with some Mystery look-a-like so I pull her over to the bar to get a drink. I tried to get her to buy me a drink, didnt work, so oh well, she wasnt that hot anyway. While Im holding my money out to get a drink the girl next to me offers to flag the bartender down for me. Sweet, I get my drink and shes kinda cute ... maybe an 8. I start engaging the group, it turned out to be a 3 set, and things go pretty well. Brian hops in to wing and starts talking to the really drunk friend ... correction, the really really really drunk friend. I move the set over to a quiet (haha or so I thought) table and proceed to run some standard stuff. I used the question game, and a bunch of general banter and my target (HB8 with glasses so just HBGlasses) seems to be eating it up. Brian almost gets us into a fight over a bottle of Vodka, the girls get up to go to the bathroom so I head over to Jarret and Brian. After about ten or so minutes I saw the girls walking around looking for me, so I walk over, act like I just noticed them and then say Im going to the bar, you guys have to join me. The group follows and Im getting really good signals from HBGlasses. The drunk friend takes a million pictures, the other girl pulls her away and tells my target that she'll meet her downstairs. I run "almost kiss" which works great and then bounce downstairs. The whole group hits up McDonalds, drunk friend gets pissy and well the night went south from there, but I was this close to my first LR and ONS since bootcamp. Oh well ... better luck next time eh?