| NYC Christmas |
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| (Click on the images for a larger version.) |
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| We went down to CSHL to have a science chat with my old boss/friend Ravi Sachidanandam |
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| and he got us a cabin to sleep in. |
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| Next morning we waited for the Long Island Railroad |
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| and made our way to Manhattan's Penn Station. |
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| What should we do first?!?!?! |
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| Go to Kmart for some sunglasses for Ilaria's swollen eye (I didn't hit her!). |
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| I leave her alone for one second and look what she does! (I managed to pry this off her finger eventually and give it back to Kmart) |
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| Finally, we got above ground, |
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| but where to now? |
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| We headed to the street |
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| everyone likes |
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| at christmas time |
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| we meet a dog with shoes along the way |
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| to Fifth Avenue. |
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| We stopped at the NY Public Library |
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| to take |
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| some photos. |
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| Then had a look at the Chrysler while waiting for |
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| my old friend Pat who took us to |
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| Juilliard (originally MOMA was the plan but it was crowded and our attempts to sneak in only got us into the atrium) |
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| where they were decking the halls (our at least their courtyard) and preparing for the final Apprentice TV show (wires everywhere) |
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| We discussed philosophy |
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| then went off to places more entertaining to our female companion like Times Square |
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| and Rockefeller Center (notice there are three trees in this photo) |
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| boy was it crowded |
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| so we left to hang with the locals in the Village. |
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| Ilaria found a restaurant using her mom's maiden name. |
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| how bout that photography eh? |
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| NYC was warmin up for some night action |
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| So we took the subway |
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| uptown for some live music (no photos of that). |
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| Next morning: breakfast in syosset |
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| at the home of the original (yummy!) flat bagel. |
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| check out that big left eyelid :( (it's better now) |
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| Then I (the crazy one) drove us |
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| to the lower east side |
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| of manhattan. The previous day, Ilaria, with much shopping vigor announced, "Bring me to the shoes". |
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| And given Manhattan's enormity that took all of the second day. |
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| We went to about 30 shoe stores all on ONE block, and bought ZERO shoes :(. |
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| I got in trouble for taking a picture at this bread store, so I'm sticking the crappy photo on the web. Their food was bad too; don't go there. |
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| But Strand Bookstore rocks, and we bought lots of nice stuff. |
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| We went back to Union Square for Ilaria to buy all the stuff she wanted the day before, but at that time she wasn't absolutely positively sure that it was the best stuff in town. Then I lost the absolutely positively best sweater in Manhattan, just a few moments later, somehow :-\ |
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| Finally we drove back to Boston and finished the evening with dinner at our favorite neighborhood bar. |