I am not a very good blogger...I admit that to myself. I still think about things all the time and want to write about them. So I'll keep going when the notion strikes me...
Some other highlights about New York which now seems like a year ago...
Walking miles and miles in the city, taking more subways than I ever have before, exploring more cool places like Harlem, Brooklyn, Chelsea, and SoHo. We spent a glorious morning in the most beautiful guitar shop I have ever seen called Rudy's. There was a sweet salesman there named Gordon who helped me surprise my husband with a new guitar for his birthday. That was the most fun I have had in a long time.... Name what you are looking for in NYC and there is a specialty store that has it all crammed into a crazy small space... I can think of a store with just pickles, another just caviar (I don't care for either of those..). My favorite discovery of specialty stuff this summer had to be Jacques Torres Chocolates. He has a few shops peppered around the city, we visited the one at Rockefeller Center and the one in Brooklyn. My niece was in the city on business and she joined us on the trek to Brooklyn. We managed the multiple subway rides and the meandering into town to dine at Grimaldi's where we waited an hour and a half in line but holy cow was it worth it!! Best pizza I ever had and the cherry soda was a local bottler and it was the best I have ever had... Now onto the chocolate. We found Jacques Torres' place and my husband ordered the yummiest hot chocolate ever made and I split an ice cream sandwich with my daughter. Let me just tell you that I have dreams about that ice cream sandwich... it was made with two Jacques Torres chocolate chunk cookies and some store made salt caramel ice cream. My only regret was that as we were walking along back to our subway it started to rain and we were walking very fast and stuffing bites down as fast as we could...I wish I had just gotten drenched and eaten that thing a little more slowly....my mouth is watering....
Okay, tube tops. New York is a mecca of fashion, of course, and if something is "in" or "trendy" it is in spades all around you and you suddenly think, wow long pearl strands must be "in" or lace tops etc. I can vouch for seeing many things I had not noticed until it was everywhere in that city. But not all styles are optimal for everyone....and maybe if you ride subways often and have a size triple H bustline you might rethink the trend in case you end up having to hold your hands over your head to hold onto something to not fall down in the subway and because it is so crowded and your bust is in the face (literally) of multiple strangers... um. anyway, the other memorable subway trips (and they are all memorable in some way) include the one with the strolling mariachi band, and another with the disgruntled citizen vocalizing and preaching LOUDLY, and most bizarre the man in the NYFD shirt who was seated and asleep and then rolled forward and bumped his head (hard!) on the floor of the subway. He woke up only briefly to reposition...
Now I think of all the areas in and around NYC that have suffered so much from the big storm and
wonder how in the world it will all recover.... I am grateful for the chance to explore that city the way we did.
I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. I have much to be grateful for...