Carpe los what?

Subject header: Celebrate!

I thus typed the header of an e-mail I was about to send to my co-worker. He had just received a job offer from France, by telephone.

"Let's go out for a drink tonight? If not tonight, tomorrow. It's good to celebrate good news! : )"

I knew that A was staying in the darkroom until very late with his friends, around 9 p.m., so I could allow myself this little pleasure.

It was followed by the ding-ding sound of my Microsoft Outlook inbox. A reply.

"OK for tonight."

As we headed out, I said, "You know, we should carpe los dias."

"Carpe los what?"

"Carpe los dias. Like Carpe Diem, but um, I sort of don't know the plural..."

"Oh, hah hah. Yes, that's great. We need to Carpe los dias!"

We tried to figure out where to have a celebratory glass of wine. He doesn't "do" the pub around the corner. Or at least, with me, he hasn't.

The Pinnacle? Top of the Rock? We settled on on the Rainbow Grill for cocktails which is on the 65th floor of the NBC building. The captain showed us to a table whiched faced directly in front of the Empire State Building. It was light outside. We stayed until it became very dark, and the Empire State Building was brilliantly lit up in green and red.