New Yaaaaaaawk Seeeeeetay
Spent last weekend in New York City with Y for a random weekend of eating and just hanging out. We've been wanting to go since before Christmas but just never found time to go. We weren't trying to be overly ambitious about our trip. It was just supposed to be relaxing and relatively stress-free. Our noteable activities planned for this trip:
1) See the broadway show, Avenue Q
2) Eat wontons in Chinatown
3) Get dungeness crabs in Flushings
4) Raid a chinese bakery
Thursday:
The trip started out on an aggravating note. First off, Y came over and her driver side window fell off it's track, so it wouldn't roll up all the way. It was late on Friday and we had to head out to the airport soon, so we couldn't take care of it. We just ended up stashing it my the garage for the weekend. Then we rushed over to the airport to try and catch an earlier shuttle flight to La Guardia only to discover that the 8pm flight was cancelled. At the airport I decided that the whole liquid policy is stupid, and I'm not going to check in my carry-on for a 25% full tube of toothpaste. I decided to stash it in my pocket thinking I can make it thru security with it. Yeah, apparently the tube is made of aluminum. So I got flagged and frisked by security. Luckily the TSA agent was actually very friendly, and he let me keep my toothpaste too. At the gate, we saw Sun Ming Ming, the 2nd tallest man in the world at 7' 9". He plays for the Maryland Nighthawks of the ABA. I think Y comes up to his knee. I'm at eye level with his crotch.
Friday:
Afterwards we stuffed ourselves with wontons from Chinatown for lunch, napped, had an early Valentine's dinner in the West Village, and met up with my cousin in the West Village for some live music.
Saturday:
The weather was much warmer so Y and I took a walk over to Time Square to look for the theater we were heading to later that night for Avenue Q. We grabbed some lunch at a French place we've been to before killing time before we met T at the Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle. We were going to meet up so we could pick up the show tickets he bought for us and just hang out. T calls me. I expect him to tell me where in the plaza to meet. Instead, it's him telling me, he's forgotten the tickets at home. It'll take about an hour to retrieve and come back. How some things never change. Ack, flashbacks of the europe trip!
After T's triumphant return, we decide to grab dinner before the show. We finish around 7:30-ish which should be enough time to hop a cab over to Time Square. We can't find a cab for the life of us, so T flags down a rickshaw and off we go! It's getting pretty cold, so he wraps the passenger area in a clear plastic sheet, which is suprisingly warm. Too bad it didn't extend down to our feet. For a sec, we thought we were going to be late for our show, but we made it just in time. I think we ended up getting there a little quicker than taking a cab since traffic was terrible. I guess everyone was trying to make a show.
After the show, we tried to take the train down the Lower East Side, except our F train turned into the A train twice. We got off the first time, but couldn't understand the conductor well enough the 2nd time and ended up going down the west side. We just got off and decided to cab it. Too bad everyone else that got screwed had the same idea. Ugh how frustrating.
Sunday:
T picked us up from our hotel and took us to Flushings to get some good eats. I've been dreaming about ginger scallion dungeness crab for the longest time. Awwwww...... After our belly's were full with seafood, we stocked up on our chinese baked goods, and split early for the airport.
Three days of eating, yet I still feel unsatisfied. Next time we're going to find some Indian food and steaks!
1) See the broadway show, Avenue Q
2) Eat wontons in Chinatown
3) Get dungeness crabs in Flushings
4) Raid a chinese bakery
Thursday:
The trip started out on an aggravating note. First off, Y came over and her driver side window fell off it's track, so it wouldn't roll up all the way. It was late on Friday and we had to head out to the airport soon, so we couldn't take care of it. We just ended up stashing it my the garage for the weekend. Then we rushed over to the airport to try and catch an earlier shuttle flight to La Guardia only to discover that the 8pm flight was cancelled. At the airport I decided that the whole liquid policy is stupid, and I'm not going to check in my carry-on for a 25% full tube of toothpaste. I decided to stash it in my pocket thinking I can make it thru security with it. Yeah, apparently the tube is made of aluminum. So I got flagged and frisked by security. Luckily the TSA agent was actually very friendly, and he let me keep my toothpaste too. At the gate, we saw Sun Ming Ming, the 2nd tallest man in the world at 7' 9". He plays for the Maryland Nighthawks of the ABA. I think Y comes up to his knee. I'm at eye level with his crotch.
Friday:
While all of our friends worked, it was too cold to stroll around the city, so we took the NBC Studio tour. We got an unexpected surprise when we were graced with the presence of Forest Whitaker. He passed our tour group, but Y and I were looking in the wrong direction. BAH! We visited the SNL studio and briefly saw Keith Urban rehearsing for the show before he had the page shut the curtains on us. Bastard alcoholic can't practice with people watching. Y did get me a snazzy mousepad to console me.
Afterwards we stuffed ourselves with wontons from Chinatown for lunch, napped, had an early Valentine's dinner in the West Village, and met up with my cousin in the West Village for some live music.
Saturday:
The weather was much warmer so Y and I took a walk over to Time Square to look for the theater we were heading to later that night for Avenue Q. We grabbed some lunch at a French place we've been to before killing time before we met T at the Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle. We were going to meet up so we could pick up the show tickets he bought for us and just hang out. T calls me. I expect him to tell me where in the plaza to meet. Instead, it's him telling me, he's forgotten the tickets at home. It'll take about an hour to retrieve and come back. How some things never change. Ack, flashbacks of the europe trip!
After T's triumphant return, we decide to grab dinner before the show. We finish around 7:30-ish which should be enough time to hop a cab over to Time Square. We can't find a cab for the life of us, so T flags down a rickshaw and off we go! It's getting pretty cold, so he wraps the passenger area in a clear plastic sheet, which is suprisingly warm. Too bad it didn't extend down to our feet. For a sec, we thought we were going to be late for our show, but we made it just in time. I think we ended up getting there a little quicker than taking a cab since traffic was terrible. I guess everyone was trying to make a show.
After the show, we tried to take the train down the Lower East Side, except our F train turned into the A train twice. We got off the first time, but couldn't understand the conductor well enough the 2nd time and ended up going down the west side. We just got off and decided to cab it. Too bad everyone else that got screwed had the same idea. Ugh how frustrating.
Sunday:
T picked us up from our hotel and took us to Flushings to get some good eats. I've been dreaming about ginger scallion dungeness crab for the longest time. Awwwww...... After our belly's were full with seafood, we stocked up on our chinese baked goods, and split early for the airport.
Three days of eating, yet I still feel unsatisfied. Next time we're going to find some Indian food and steaks!
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