The Chew!

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Cold and rainy!  We had reservations for The Chew, a cooking talk show on ABC.  We headed uptown for the taping...Yuck.

We had crappy seats.  Someone didn't want to wait in the rain so we headed for shelter.  Of course we lost our place in line...no food for us! :(

I was gonna bring my camera but didn't want to lug it around in the rain.  Damn.  I coulda gotten better pictures.

Michael Simon

One freaky picture of Carla

We grabbed a hot dog after the show, all that food made us hungry.  Of course Randy decides afterwards that he wants to go to Shake Shack.  Punk.

I saw this place on the Cooking Channel, they make mini rice krispie treats!

Cute yah!  I bought a mint chocolate and a salted caramel

Hope the weather is better tomorrow...

NYC Day 3

Wednesday, Nov 5, 2014

We woke up fairly early and Randy wanted to eat some corned beef for breakfast.  Katz Deli is super close, maybe a 5 minute walk?  They open early so we grabbed some takeout and brought it back to the apartment.

Just a hop and a skip away is Russ and Daughters, a high end smoked fish/caviar shop.  They make a pastrami cured salmon that is to DIE for.  We had to grab a little to munch on.  This stuff isn't cheap, $36/lb but soooooo worth it!

Breakfast!  We shared a corned beef sandwich and a side order of potato salad.  Is that a beer in the corner?  Yup!

1/4 lb of pastrami smoked salmon.  We may go back there this morning for some lox and bagels.  Hope it doesn't rain.

After eating all that for breakfast we didn't want to do move from the couch.  We didn't head out till noonish...We had a 2:30 check in for David Letterman!  The show was great.  Jennifer Lopez was the guest.

After the show we just walked around a bit and grabbed some take out Chinese from down the street and brought it back to the apartment.  I was tired!  Crossing my fingers that the weather holds up today.  It's supposed to rain.

Need....earplugs....now....

Monday and Tuesday, November 4 and 5, 2014
NYC

I'm in New York!!  Randy and I flew in on Monday morning and are staying in a cute apartment on the lower east side.  I love the East Village.  So many places to go that are in walking distance of each other.  I like our apartment except it's on Delancey, a main street heading towards the Willamsburg bridge.  VERY NOISY.  I barely slept the first night.  Good thing Randy brought ear plugs with him so I slept a little better last night.  Still worth every penny.

Our first meal of the day was The Meatball Shop.  In case you don't know, this is the first place that doctor who ended up with Ebola stopped to eat when he got back from Africa.  It's been about a week, that's long enough to wait, huh?

It was delish.  Mines was better than Randy's  :)

For the rest of the day (and probably the rest of the trip) I was using my iphone to take pics.  Since we haven't gone to anyplace new I didn't want to lug my camera all over the place.

Next stop:  The Doughnut Plant.  I can't believe how close this place is to us.  We used to take the subway over here.  It took us about 10 minutes to walk there.  Awesome!  We only picked up two donuts.  

For dinner we headed to our favorite pizza joint, Lombardis!

We got half margherita, half italian sausage.   Sooo didn't disappoint.

Randy, the piggy that he is, decides that he's still hungry and wanted to try a vodka pizza at Rubyrosas, which is about a block away.

Yesterday we hung out at the apartment for breakfast, I ate a slice of cold pizza :).  Randy was in the mood for some fried chicken so we walked over to Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken.  Holy crap.  This was some good chicken.  We ate at their other restaurant the last time we were here but I forgot how good it was.

We didn't have much planned today so I wanted to go to Times Square to visit the Hello Kitty shop...sorry, I really don't care for Times Square, it's just too crowded and too many tourists.  Seeing Hello Kitty is pretty much the only reason I'd go there.  THE DAMN STORE CLOSED DOWN.  It's empty.  No warning, nada.  I checked online on my phone and couldn't find any post saying that they moved or shut down.  BASTARDS!

Since I couldn't go there, I headed to Dylan's Candy Bar, another favorite of mine.  Low and behold, look what I saw!  

We tried going to the MLB Fan Cave but it was locked :(

After a long day of walking around, we found ourselves back in the village and close to one of my favorite ice cream stops, Big Gay Ice Cream.  The Salty Pimp is out of this world!  Soft serve ice cream injected with salted caramel, sprinkled with sea salt and then dipped in chocolate.  

Anyone looking for a boyfriend??

We went to a restauraunt called Sauce which was a couple of blocks away from the apartment.  Holy guacamole their food was yummmm.  This is our fresh mozzarella and beefsteak tomato salad.  This picture does no justice.  It's super dark in there so this came out like crap

Used the flash with this one, I ordered the fresh pappardelle pasta with bolognese and that's a little sampling of Randy's calamari.

g'nite!

HDRS Movie Day!

Sunday, August 3, 2014
Ward Theaters

It's movie day again!  This year we all gathered at Ward Theater to watch Guardians of the Galaxy.  We had a great turnout!  We're really lucky that the company does stuff like this for us, we're getting spoiled!