So, this is day 2 in NYC. I arrived here safely, about an hour later than expected, but well rested. I slept the majority of the trip. I brought my denim cap which blocks the light out very well, and made for very quality napping.
Friday night, we had pizza with spinach, onions, and mushrooms, and a nice salad. It was really very good. Then we just sorta wound down a bit.
My suitcase is now known as the obelisk. As in the space oddessy, because Pixel, Pat's cat, has been most intrigued by it. And it is this huge black thing. But it still has room to put more into. It's not that heavy, but I do have to do something to get a better handle. I'll figure that out later. Otherwise it sorta just rolls where it wants to.
Yesterday, Pat and I went out of the city to nice town called Nyack. We had coffee and tea with her sister Molly, at the Runcible Spoon. It's an artist's cafe, it's quite nifty. Then we spent the day just meandering around that area, stopped in to a couple shops, sat by the hudson river looking at the sail boats.
The weather is absolutely wonderful here. I can't believe just how mild, but sunny it is. Perfect weather.
Yesterday, Molly and her husband Carlo went to eat Thai food with Pat and I, and we had a great time. A very small restaurant, and I'd never had Thai food before. I was expecting it to be like Chinese food, But it wasn't. Not only that it had about 20 selections for vegetarians. Selections that actually seemed interesting. It was the perfect meal. I'd been craving something new and different, and that just hit the spot.
I absolutely LOVE Thai food.
There is an olive store not far from Pat's. I told her that I loved olives on Friday, and she determined to take me there. We went to the olive store, and it had at least a hundred different brands of olive oil, and twenty different brands of bulk olives, which you can serve yourself. I got about seven olives and turned around to see about 12 different kinds of feta cheese in a gigantic display. I was like :: drool ::
So, I got a quarter pound of feta, my olives, and Pat and I had a mediterranian salad for lunch. Which we put Balsamic vinegar on. No need for oil. I was quite suprised at how different a fresh olive tastes. The stuff I've been eating for so long is sooooo bland. bleah.
We'll be having a mediterranian salad today too, since there was enough left over.
Today, Pat and I will be journeying into the jungle... aka Manhattan, and going to the Met.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which made such an impression on me last time, that I realize, I'll probably always want to go to.
Well, it looks like we'll be leaving soon.
xxxx
Posted by hawkie at September 7, 2003 10:54 AM