one short day in new york city

Tim and I spent a near-perfect 12 hours in the big city this weekend. Left ME early Saturday morning and arrived in the Bronx in time for Thai food with a friend from grad school. We reconfirmed my potential shellfish allergy - I'm guessing the pad thai had oyster sauce, and I'm guessing that I'm allergic to oyster sauce, as I got my usual nausea/dizzy/sweating badness about 20 minutes after eating. Luckily(?), I've gotten good at handling it, through a combo of drugs and deep breathing and whatnot. Anyway. We hung out, laying low, in a bar on St Marks, where Tim had a beer and I sipped ginger ale. Once I had myself stable again, we headed to Pommes Frites, and indulged in the frites plus 2 sauces - mango chutney mayo and sundried tomato. It was supposed to scattered t-storm, but it didn't the whole day, so we basically wandered around the LES, bought some yarn, had a cupcake, people- and dog-watched.

We headed to the theater district around 5, so that we could beat some of the traffic that comes in for shows. Found a garage for $14/unlimited amount of time, just a couple of blocks from the theater. More wandering ensued, and we eventually found a good, non-touristy sushi place called Kodama. The maki was too rice-heavy, but the egg was done just right for me. And they had cute t-shirts, one of which I now own. Sushi was followed by frozen yogurt with mochi and blueberries at red mango. All of that was followed by The Lion King, which was basically what I expected it to be, and I'm glad that I finally saw it. If I had a million dollars, I'd go back and see Allison Janney in 9-to-5 while she's still in the cast. Love her.

We stayed in a hotel a bit outside of the city, and made it back in plenty of time to lounge around on Sunday, and take the kids to the beach.

So yeah, 12 hours in NYC = beer, fries, cupcake, yarn, sushi, yogurt, theater, and general quality time with the mthgeek. Hard to go wrong with that.