Cocktail Party Ideas • Picnic Cosmos • NYC Central Park

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New York City's Central Park • Flowering Spring Bloom Tour!

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This is the start of a pictorial tour of New York City's Central Park in May. Beautiful spring blooms will be seen throughout the tour. Click the "Next one" arrow below!

Cocktail culture was invented in New York City, and nothing says elegance and excitement like a special drink in New York. Event planners and private party hosts and hostesses in New York spent a lot of time preparing special recipes to offer guests at their special event. Take a tip from the Big City Cats and experiment with some special drinks and alcohol mixes outside your usual box and comfort zone!

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Central Park • Tour Highlights!

• The Pond Pink Tulips		• Wollman Rocks 1
• The Pond Yellow Tulips		• Wollman Rocks 2
• The Ponds Yellow Tulips 2		• Wollman Promenade 2
• The Rocks at the Pond		• Wollman Flower Bed
• The Pond looking North		• The Plaza Carriage Turn
• The Pond looking West		• Plaza Entrance North View
• The Pond looking West 2		• Horse Carriage Stop
• The Pond Japanese Maple		• Plaza Horse Water Trough
• The Pond looking West 3		• Scholar's Gate Lamppost
• The Pond Gapstow Bridge		• Scholar's Gate Vendor
• Gapstow Bridge Blooming		• 7th Regiment Memorial
• Wollman Rink Purple Tree		• 7th Regiment Statue
• Wollman Promenade 1		• Seal of the 7th Regiment
• Wollman Purple Tree		• Bronze Statue Central Park
• Purple Tree Close Up

When you take a tour of NYC's Central Park, don't forget to wear your sunglasses. We would, of course, prefer you wear one of our cheap sunglasses, but if you would prefer to upgrade a little bit, we could offer you beautiful designer crystal sunglasses. Did you know that you can buy cheap sunglasses on just about every corner in Manhattan?

Celebrate your birthday in Central Park! Have a look at our birthday gift ideas!

Sample of Cocktails You Can Find in New York City's Bars, Lounges and Restaurants!

Pain Killer	Cocktail garnishes	Yorsh	Black Cossack	Saketini
Piña Colada	Drink mixers	Angel's Tit	Black Russian	Tamagozake
Planter's Punch	Drinking game	Manhattan	Bloody Mary	Bloody Aztec
Ruby Relaxer	Drinkware	Sazerac	Brass Monkey	Long Island Iced Tea
Zombie	Flaming beverages	Seven and Seven	Bull Shot	Margarita
Caipisake or Sakerinha	Glassware	7 & 7	Caesar	Paralyzer
Duncan MacLeod	Mixed drink	Whiskey sour	Caipiroska	Slammer Royale
Nog-a-Sake	shooters and drink shots	Widow's Cork	Cape Cod	Tequila Slammer
Pamake	Mixed drinks	Vermouth cocktails	Chi-Chi	Tequila Sunrise
Sake Bomb	Non-alcoholic drinks	Highball	CS Cowboy	Tequila Sunset
Sake Screwdriver	Wine cocktails	Beer	Ectoplasm	Toro Rojo
Sake Manhattan	Salty Dog	Beer cocktails	Hi-fi	Apple Martini
Vesper	Batida	Madras	Link Up	or Appletini

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Abilene Christian University is a religious oriented college in the great state of Texas. Recently, TCU announced multi-million dollar gift from BNSF for university programs. They are located in Fort Worth.

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Having a birthday? Need great birthday gift ideas? Or perhaps you are throwing a a beach theme party and are shopping for some unusual beach party favors. Planning a trip to New York City? Take a tour ahead of time of our Central Park. We've also visited Huntington Beach in California. Did you know that it's official nickname is Surf City USA. It's named after the Jan & Dean song from the 1960s. Speaking of the 1960s, that decade is now thought of with nostalgia. If you are looking for some retro vintage style cat's eye glasses, we have them in a lot of different colors.

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General Information

Shades of Fun! Inc is an online party store featuring novelty sunglasses. We are located in New York City. We ship internationally. We do not have a retail location; our online catalog is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Thanks for visiting! We offer more unusual ideas in sunglasses than Party Fair, Party City, Party Time or any other local party store.

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Fun Stuff!

Shades of Fun! is located in New York City. One of the many great things about the Big Apple is that the city attracts the best and brightest from all over the world. One of the growing trends in the city is "Bubble Tea". One of the best and most authentic places for bubble tea in NYC is Saint's Alp Teahouse. Saint's Alp is a chain of bubble tea houses with over 40 locations in Hong Kong and Malaysia. For their Manhattan store, they chose the hip NYU (New York University) area, 39 3rd Ave at East 10th Street. Specialty drinks they have invented include: MatchaAgar, Ruby Grapefruit, NataNectar, Sorbies Remix, Glacémint, Favored Coffee, Black Tea with Milk, Taro (green) Milk Tea, Sesame (Black) Milk Tea, Black Tea & Milk with Wheat Germ Ruby Grapefruit, Dragon Pearl Tea. Pearl Tapioca is a beadlike starch extracted from sweet potato, cassava root and brown sugar.

Breaking Sunglasses News:

July 2008 - James Bond wannabes can now spy on anyone and anything in your surroundings just by wearing a pair of mp4 sunglasses. Yes, they are pricey, but you can now purchase sunglasses with a video recorder embedded in the sunglasses frame. The lens is located just above the nose. The video records everything the wearer sees in 3gp format which can be converted into mp4 format then loaded up to youtube. Great for video bloggers!

July 2008 - Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, is teaming up with Ed Hardy designer Christian Audigier to launch a clothing line in the Fall of 2008. The clothing line will be sold at Kitson, the store of choice for the world's pop culture celebrities. Super red hot designer Christian Audigier is opening up another one of his stores in Las Vegas this summer and to increase his own mystique, he is opening a nightclub in Sin City at the Treasure Island Hotel. The club will be called, "The Nightclub" and will opening On July 4th and we would not be surprised if Michael Jackson re-emerges at the Opening Night party.

June 2008 - Ray Ban breaks new color ground next month when they release their first ever pastel colored Ray Bans. The pastel color Wayfarers are being launched in New York City by a promotion that features billboards designed by five NYC-based artists. The company plans to unveil the billboards on July 1st and promises that one of them will "stop traffic". Ray Ban is hoping for a big summer hit with this latest trend in Wayfarer color. Of course, we offer them in white. See our White Wayfarers.

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