Walking in the New Year
Jan. 2nd, 2010 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatWell, this is my first actual post of the year (not counting Twitter updates), so happy new year, losers my dear readers! New Year's Eve was quite uneventful, with the main thing I did at midnight being feeding the cat. New Year's Day was a lot more fun, though, as ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bethje and I went to New York City to see not_glimmer, who is visiting from Oregon. The crappy thing about being in New York on New Year's is that nothing is open. Okay, that's an exaggeration, but several places we wanted to go turned out to be closed. We decided to meet at Books of Wonder, and...well, we did, but we weren't able to go inside. Oddly enough, the cupcake place that shares the building WAS open, even though I think they might have the same owners. So we're allowed to fill our stomachs, but not our heads? Anyway, we had an early dinner at an Italian place called Focacceria, where Erin had actually eaten last New Year's. I'd been wanting pasta for a few days now, so it was cool that I finally had some. After that, we walked across the Williamsburg Bridge to Brooklyn, and had milkshakes (well, I had a smoothie, actually) at a diner called Kellogg's. Then we returned to Manhattan, and had a third dessert at a cafe there. All in all, it was a lot of walking. I enjoyed seeing Erin again, and should probably be grateful for the exercise, but I'm hoping our next visit to the New York metropolitan area will be more relaxing.
I think there were some other things that I wanted to address, but I can't remember what they were. I'm going to guess they weren't that important, though.
bethje and I went to New York City to see not_glimmer, who is visiting from Oregon. The crappy thing about being in New York on New Year's is that nothing is open. Okay, that's an exaggeration, but several places we wanted to go turned out to be closed. We decided to meet at Books of Wonder, and...well, we did, but we weren't able to go inside. Oddly enough, the cupcake place that shares the building WAS open, even though I think they might have the same owners. So we're allowed to fill our stomachs, but not our heads? Anyway, we had an early dinner at an Italian place called Focacceria, where Erin had actually eaten last New Year's. I'd been wanting pasta for a few days now, so it was cool that I finally had some. After that, we walked across the Williamsburg Bridge to Brooklyn, and had milkshakes (well, I had a smoothie, actually) at a diner called Kellogg's. Then we returned to Manhattan, and had a third dessert at a cafe there. All in all, it was a lot of walking. I enjoyed seeing Erin again, and should probably be grateful for the exercise, but I'm hoping our next visit to the New York metropolitan area will be more relaxing.I think there were some other things that I wanted to address, but I can't remember what they were. I'm going to guess they weren't that important, though.
