War Horse Montage

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#19 Mom in NYC (11/21/11-11/26/11)

MONDAY, November 21st:

I picked mom up at the airport and we had dinner in my apartment.

TUESDAY, November 22nd:

The weather on Tuesday wasn't very nice, but we made the most of it. We got our nails done and headed down 5th Avenue to window shop.

The 5th Avenue snowflake

Once again, the Bergdorf Goodman Christmas windows are my favorite this year. This year's theme "Carnival of the Animals."

I love how glamorous their mannequins are! They look like they are from the 1920's.

Lady Liberty from the Rockette theme windows and Henri Bendel. The gown is made of jelly beans!

We made our way to Grand Central Station to the holiday gift fair. This is mom in the whispering gallery outside the Oyster Bar at Grand Central.

Tuesday evening, we took a wine and cheese class at the City Winery with Murray's Cheese Shop.

WEDNESDAY, November 23rd:

The weather was maybe slightly better on Wednesday. I gave mom a private abbreviated version of our Central Village/ Soho and our Chelsea Market/ Meatpacking District tour of a few of my "food tasting" favorites from each. Then we visited the Union Square farmer's market and holiday gift fair. Then mom got to sit in on my voice lesson, we had dinner at Eataly. After dinner, we headed up to the Museum of Natural History to see the Macy's Parade Balloon inflation!

Do you see Snoopy!?!?

Spiderman

The Energizer Bunny

Mom and me!

The Hayden Planetarium

THURSDAY, November 24th (Thanksgiving):

We had breakfast and mimosas in my apartment and watched the Macy's parade on Earthcam (I don't have a TV) while listening to Christmas music. In the afternoon we made a pilgrimage to Brooklyn to have dinner at my co-worker Sephrah's house.

The view of Brooklyn and New York Harbor from the roof at Sephrah's.

The Statue of Liberty is in the distance!

The view of Brooklyn and Manhattan.

FRIDAY, November 25th (Black Friday):

We went into Macy's Harold Square on Black Friday!!!

The "Make A Wish" ornament windows at Macy's.

Me and mom outside Macy's.

Lord and Taylor's windows were next.

This drawing is entitled "What is Christmas Made of" drawn by Carl S. Wilson in 1941.

The theme for Lord and Taylor's windows was children's holiday drawings.

Mom and me and the Christmas tree inside the main New York Public Library.

After the library we went to the holiday gift fair at Bryant Park.

The big star ornaments at the Time Warner Center during their light and music show.

We had dinner at Rosa Mexicana before going to see War Horse on Broadway (if you can't see the show in New York, watch for the movie by Stephen Speilberg out on Christmas Day, and if you can see it live, GO!!! I have never seen anything like it on stage!) This is the waterfall wall inside the restaurant.

#18 Foods of NY Nolita/ NoHo Tour (10/18/11)

Foods of New York Tours recently launched our newest food tour of Nolita/ Noho. Because it is brand new it is only running on weekends so none of the tour guides have been able to take the tour, so we got to take a special tour guide tour on Tuesday afternoon and it was INCREDIBLE!!! Seriously, after your take my tour ;) come and take the Nolita/ Noho tour!!! Sign up here NOW: http://www.foodsofny.com/nolita.php

The new wave of graffiti. Piece is by Shepard Fairey on Mott Street near the Little Cupcake Bakeshop.

Amy giving us the tour overview

Tasting #1, the Brooklyn Blackout cupcake from Little Cupcake Bakeshop

The real original Ray's Pizza

Emporio

Watching our pizza being made at Emporio

Wood burning pizza oven at Emporio

Cindy waiting for the pizza

Tasting #2, Prosciutto & Arugola pizza from Emporio

Inside Emporio

The two buildings on each side of the yellow building are twins.

Tasting #3, roasted meats from Oxley's Carvery

Inside Oxley's Carvery

Dumbbell tenement example inside Bread Restaurant (apparently the man who lives in the apartment is hot stuff too, no "ugly naked man" here)

Inside Bread Restaurant (tasting #4)

Halloween spirit inside Bread

The Candle Building which used to be a retirement home for horses, although they still had to help Thomas Edison test electricity

The New York Shaving Company

Inside the Monday Room at Public Restaurant

An ode to the horses back at the Candle Building for their service to Thomas Edison

The Edison lightbulbs overhanging tables at Public Restaurant. The space was home of the Edison Light Electric Company back in 1880.

The concept of Public Restaurant is "public" spaces.

Learning about Elizabeth Gardens

Moe's Meat Market art gallery

Moe now is across the street still carrying out the family business.

Tasting #5 was at Tacombi

An interior designer owns this house on Elizabeth Street, although it looks like it should be a Tiffany's store.

Water tower on the Bowery

New restaurant in the neighborhood called Saxon and Parole, named for two famous race horses.

"The Wedding Cake Building"

This is one continuous line carved into the sidewalk. It took months to complete.

Tasting #6 is (usually) at The Smile

Anny showing us her photo in the book at the hair salon near one of the restaurants on the tour. She is famous!

Tasting #7, a Peel-i-o: the restaurant Peels version of an Oreo

After the tour I went with my co-worked Kerrianne to have a gin cocktail at Madam Geneva's one of the places Amy mentioned on the tour that I keep reading about. They put homemade preserves in the cocktail, this is the cranberry orange preserve and it was delicious!