Well peeps! This is my last post from
NYC.
So today’s our last day in New York,
and we are both very ready to come home.
We miss our dogs, our cat, fish, oh and the Wee Girl. We decided to start the day with breakfast
at Balthazar’s which was probably our nicest breakfast (and we wish we had have
tried it earlier, so we could have returned for breakfast again). We both had Eggs en Cototte, mine was a touch
under done but yum regardless and Himself finally had a decent coffee. Had I mentioned the coffee here is terrible?
It’s all drip coffee, and even the proper stuff in the occasional café just isn’t
that good. The also do excellent hot
chocolate.
After breakfast we had a bit of a
list of final things to do (buy) so up to some electronic shop with a million
Jews for some carts (some DJ-y thing). I
have never seen so many Orthodox Jews in one place, most with the curly
sideburn thingies. Do you think one day,
they’ll wake up, look in the mirror and think ‘hmmmm is this really the way forward?’
I wondered if they used hot rollers to get the curls as curly as they were –
wasn’t game to ask.
After that over to Times Square where
they have M&Ms world, had to pick up some souvenirs for niece and nephew.
They have this amazing Wall of M&Ms which has them in any colour you can
think of – quite cool, but the smell, ugh! Too much cheap chocolate!! Then off
to find a Mac store. As Himself was
looking them up on his phone he glanced up and lo! there was one across the
road. In we went to buy half price
cosmetics for me. Australia is such a
rip off for makeup!!
Then onto the subway and down to
Union Square. There was meant to be a
cheap electronics/DVD place there.
Also, we wanted to get some nuts to feed the squirrels… The electronics place was a big letdown, we
could not for the life of us find somewhere like JBHiFi to get DVDs… So we grabbed some nuts from a whole food
place and trotted across to do some serious squirrel whispering…
They are very sweet creatures, you
can hold out a nut and they grab your fingers with their wee paws and take the
nut carefully in their mouth. My only
slight concern was the whole rabies thing but I thought I’d just tough it out
and get a shot if for some strange reason one decided I looked more delicious
than a nut*
After that we went down to Lombardy’s
which is a bit of a pizza institution in Little Italy for pizza. Himself had tried one there on the day I was
sick, but was so stressed and frazzled didn’t really enjoy it. Their small pizza is probably the size of one
of our larges but we manned up and ate the whole thing anyway. Pepperoni
and mushroom, our favourite.
Then more DVD hunting (failed) and
finally another suitcase to bring ‘stuff’ home with. Back to the apartment for a nanna which
turned into packing then off for dinner.
We booked a Mexican restaurant, Toloache for dinner. Delicious! Every Mexican meal we’ve had,
including take away has been great. I had tuna ceviche to start and Himself had
a quesadilla with cheese and truffle (a bit posh), then we both had tacos for
main; they were meant to be starter size but what with the American portions…
We got a couple of sides, plantain, rice & black beans and cactus fries
(crumbed, deep fried cactus) it tasted as I expected, slightly bland, crispy on
the outside, slimy/mushy on the inside but not in a bad way. The tacos were yum! The margaritas were yum! It was all yum.
Then… onto The Book of Mormon, a
highly anticipated musical written by the South Park Boys. OHMIGOD SO FUNNY!!! We spent the entire show
wetting our pants laughing. The guy beside us had brought his 16(ish) son and
was wondering if that made him a bad father, I don’t think it did. Had to be one of the best musicals I’ve EVER
seen. So if you get the chance, see
it. Apparently very hard to get tickets,
but thanks to Himself’s employer in high places we had front row mezzanine
seats (very expensive) worth every cent.
Apparently when the seats were first booked, and it was confirmed we had
seats and would we like to get them, Himself asked how much they were… there
was a pause then ‘we’ve never been asked that before’… Sigh, to be so rich huh?
Brilliant show, we were quoting it and giggling all the way home.
Stopped at our ‘local’ for a couple
of drinks and some of their delicious fries and now it’s off to bed. See you soon, we’re back on Saturday…
*not a word from the peanut gallery**
**see what I did there?
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