Brunch Crew

I've probably written about this before but here goes.

Jersey City finally felt like home to me last year after I met my neighborhood friends. It all started with my dogs and the dog park, and then branched out from there.

I am not sure how the weekend brunch thing actually started. It was almost a year ago and a group of us started going to brunch regularly on Saturday or Sunday depending on schedules. Whoever can make it shows up. Sometimes people bring new friends to introduce to the group.

We sit around and shoot the shit - catch up on each other's lives and things going on in our little corner of the world. I think I lost this kind of community for a long time and I am glad to have it back. In Salt Lake City, it was easier to do this... I had next door neighbors in a small enclosed community where you saw each other every day. Here, where everything is so fast paced and less social, most people I know don't even know their neighbors - even if they see them every day. It was a nice change to be able to find these kind of friends here and to really feel like you belong to a neighborhood.

This picture is the majority of the brunch crew - eating at Beechwood Cafe on a sunny Saturday afternoon.