Madison Square Garden

So, of course, the Orlando Magic won. ;)

Friday night was the Magic/Knicks game at Madison Square Garden, my first time at "The Garden". Out the windows before we entered our gate, you could see straight down 33rd street and look upon the Empire State Building, which was lit up red and green for the holiday season.

We had good seats and almost the entire game was close up to the past half of the 4th quarter- Very exciting game! The fans weren't as noisy as they are in Orlando- it was weird! I guess they're used to having a team (the Magic was just born in 1989). We actually saw some Orlando fans there- I think there were possibly 20 of us in the whole stadium! Out of that, we had two Magic fans to our left and two to our right. We even made friends with some cool Knicks fans sitting behind us- Kelly and Jemel!

Knicks Fans vs. Us!

After the game, we wandered over to Joe O's. We made great friends with a guy named Michael who was in town from Dulbin, and introduced him to Darren (the bartender who was also from Dublin). MUCH fun! Later, Eric's youngest brother Mike and girlfriend Abby came by, who were in town on vacation.

After a hard week's work, the night was much needed!