retreat in the big city
Feb. 9th, 2003 06:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kismet09There's so much to say about New York, I just don't want to wait until I'm at work on Monday on my much faster computer. Writing this entry will be a study in patience...
The only downside to the whole weekend was being really, really cold all the time. I feel compelled to mention it because I said it so many times this weekend. That said, here's some of the good stuff.
Friday turned out to be a snow day, which meant guilt-free sleeping in for me. I still wasn't feeling great, so it was nice to be able to sleep until 9 instead of 7, and it meant we'd be able to leave for New York a little earlier. We drove directly to the East Village, where my friend Rochelle lives, and my friend Rachel is visiting, and went to dinner at Rupali, the same Indian place we always go amongst the block and a half of Indian restaurants. We played a game of Scrabble, and headed back to our hotel around 11.
One of the best parts of our visits to NYC is that we somehow always manage to find parking in the Village. Maybe this isn't as amazing a feat as it seems to me, but in my neighborhood in Chicago, there's never parking, so I'm always pleasantly surprised to find spaces in big cities.
On Saturday, we met for Dim Sum at the Golden Unicorn, which is great because it has pictures and illustrations on all of the travelling carts so you can tell what you order. They have wonderful jasminey tea, and the food is lovely. We stuffed ourselves with lots of little dishes for $10/person. Stopped at bubble tea on the way to the train and curbed my craving, and then went our separate ways. Tim and I went up to the Times Square area and caught the matinee of Flower Drum Song (which was good and fun, as Rodgers and Hammerstein should be, and Lea Salonga was amazing as always, even though the songs were really low in her range). Headed back to the Village, drank tea at the Wild Lily, ate dinner at a place so new that it doesn't even have a name yet (but it's easily recognized by the large plastic tomato hanging outside) -- good panini, lots of food for not too much cost yet again (which is good, since I blew the month's budget buying Flower Drum tickets). Back to their place, and then on to the hotel, where we watched the Man Show (ridiculous as ever).
Slept in, got Starbucks beverages and Nathan's fries on the road, and now we're back here. Tim's making pot pie for dinner, so the house smells yummy, and I'm more relaxed and content than I've been in a long time. Forecast calls for snow tonight, and if we get another snow day tomorrow, that means I'll have had a five day weekend :) but I'm actually feeling ready to be back at work for a change, so that's a nice feeling...
The only downside to the whole weekend was being really, really cold all the time. I feel compelled to mention it because I said it so many times this weekend. That said, here's some of the good stuff.
Friday turned out to be a snow day, which meant guilt-free sleeping in for me. I still wasn't feeling great, so it was nice to be able to sleep until 9 instead of 7, and it meant we'd be able to leave for New York a little earlier. We drove directly to the East Village, where my friend Rochelle lives, and my friend Rachel is visiting, and went to dinner at Rupali, the same Indian place we always go amongst the block and a half of Indian restaurants. We played a game of Scrabble, and headed back to our hotel around 11.
One of the best parts of our visits to NYC is that we somehow always manage to find parking in the Village. Maybe this isn't as amazing a feat as it seems to me, but in my neighborhood in Chicago, there's never parking, so I'm always pleasantly surprised to find spaces in big cities.
On Saturday, we met for Dim Sum at the Golden Unicorn, which is great because it has pictures and illustrations on all of the travelling carts so you can tell what you order. They have wonderful jasminey tea, and the food is lovely. We stuffed ourselves with lots of little dishes for $10/person. Stopped at bubble tea on the way to the train and curbed my craving, and then went our separate ways. Tim and I went up to the Times Square area and caught the matinee of Flower Drum Song (which was good and fun, as Rodgers and Hammerstein should be, and Lea Salonga was amazing as always, even though the songs were really low in her range). Headed back to the Village, drank tea at the Wild Lily, ate dinner at a place so new that it doesn't even have a name yet (but it's easily recognized by the large plastic tomato hanging outside) -- good panini, lots of food for not too much cost yet again (which is good, since I blew the month's budget buying Flower Drum tickets). Back to their place, and then on to the hotel, where we watched the Man Show (ridiculous as ever).
Slept in, got Starbucks beverages and Nathan's fries on the road, and now we're back here. Tim's making pot pie for dinner, so the house smells yummy, and I'm more relaxed and content than I've been in a long time. Forecast calls for snow tonight, and if we get another snow day tomorrow, that means I'll have had a five day weekend :) but I'm actually feeling ready to be back at work for a change, so that's a nice feeling...
