It's been a very busy and fun-packed week here in New York. We arrived a week ago in the late afternoon and immediately after checking in to the hotel we ran out and saw Memphis. What a great show - I highly recommend it. The rest of the week felt like that - brief stops at the hotel before running out for some other adventure. We saw two other shows, Mamma Mia! and Jersey Boys. I liked Jersey Boys second best, with Mamma Mia! coming in third. That doesn't mean it wasn't great, just that the other two were even better. I went to the Frick, the MOMA and the Metropolitan museums. My favorite museum was the Frick - smaller and more personal with some beautiful paintings. I know now I like Turner. But the paintings with the most affect on me were the largest Pollock at the MOMA and the Clyfford Still also at the MOMA. I saw several other Pollock's and Still's at the Met that I liked a lot, but those two affected me so much I went back one afternoon and spent a couple of hours with them.
I have eaten and drank so much good food and wine it's hard to catalog it all. We had South African food the first night (dinner at midnight - only in New York!), fantastic home-cooked Korean food Sunday, yummy Italian Monday, a very high end steak house called Quality Meats Tuesday, a simple fish dinner Wednesday and another great steak house, Ruth Chris last night. I've also eaten pizza, cannoli, a pastrami sandwhich from Katz's Deli and today I finally am getting out for a bagel. I've been exposed to more Zinfandels than I thought possible, plus great, really great, South African sauvignon blanc, French Sancerre, an Alsacien beer and four or five bottles of fine French champagne. Oooo la la!
I did quite a bit of shopping - bargains galore. I also saw the World Trade Center site; still moving after all of these years and met a fire fighter who was there that day. Yesterday I met up with two girlfriends from my semester at Fordham University. We had lunch on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx and bought the yummiest cannoli in the world there.
I'll have more real estate news next week. Now I need to go get that bagel and pack for the trip home.