Roy's Visit

So Roy came to visit me here in New York last week. We had a really great time, I just haven't gotten around to posting about it!

Roy arrived Wednesday night, so on Thursday morning we made our way into the city. First we went to the Whitney museum to see the Summer of Love exhibit. Roy really liked it, and I still had fun seeing it a second time. We watched a couple of really interesting short movies this time that I didn't see before. Afterwards we went to the Carnegie Deli where we split a corned beef sandwich, Dr. Brown's soda, and the best potato knish I've had since I've been here. Delish! Afterwards we walked around and went shoppping at Bloomingdales, H&M, Tiffany's, and all of 5th avenue. We saw Rockefeller center, Bryant Park, and we had dinner at the Shake Shack in Maddison Square Park.

Friday I made breakfast and we went to the MET. We had a great time and I saw some of the museum I hadn't seen before, especially modern art. I think I still haven't seen any of the Asian art though. Roy and I really liked the Pre-Comumbian gold section. After the museum, we had delicious onion and scallion bagels, which Roy loved. After the bagels, we went to the garment district where I showed Roy where I walk around a lot for work, and we ate again at Gray's Papaya, splitting the Recession Special (save $1!) and then getting a tasty canoli at the Halal bakery on the corner. Afterwards I took Roy to Canal street to see all the commotion there, and then we walked around SoHo shopping and seeing the neighborhood until we made our way to Greenwich Village where we ate BBQ at Dallas Jones BBQ.

Saturday was a big day because it was Roy's birthday, and because we went to Brooklyn. I hadn't been to Brooklyn yet, and I really liked it. (Except I kept getting confused and turned around because it isn't really a grid like Manhattan) We went to Williamsburg for the Brooklyn Brewery tour, and then we went to DUMBO to eat the "best pizza in New York," Grimaldi's. Delicious, and thankfully, not a long wait since there were just 2 of us. We had intended to go to Coney Island, but it would have made us late for our dinner date at Les Halles, where I took Roy for his birthday dinner. We had a yummy dinner, and the greatest creme brule ever, for dessert.

Sunday we decided to take it easy, so we went into the city late, got scallion and ham and cheese bagels, and walked around Greenwich Village all day. It was Roy's pick, since we hadn't gotten to see a lot of it when we went on Friday because it was dark. We lunched at Benny's Burritos, which was a bad idea because it was awful and Roy got overcharged. We walked around some more and then it was time to go back to New Jersey so Roy could catch his plane back to Austin.