Trip to New York

Olympia and I headed up to New York Monday and came back Tuesday. We took the train up there, stayed in a hotel in SoHo, went to dinner at our favorite Indian restaurant on 6th Street, and went to a play in the evening. While waiting for the play's showtime to come around, we went into Joe Allen's, another restaurant on Restaurant Row, which is 46th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues.

We had a minor brush with celebrity there as we were seated at the bar, in that Harvey Keitel was seated with a few other people at the table closest to where we were sitting. Olympia started grinning her face off, as she thought about his lines from Pulp Fiction, especially the one where he cautions the other characters not to, well, start congratulating one another quite yet, only put much more graphically. If you've seen the movie, you probably know the line I mean, and if not, that's probably okay.

Tuesday, we stopped at the Toys-R-Us in Times Square, which is utterly huge and has a ferris wheel right in the store, roughly three stories high. Apparently, nowhere on the east coast is there a store with an Xbox for sale between Christmas and New Year's Day, which is just awful, since I was going to buy one. It seems like certain companies (*cough* Microsoft, Sony *cough*) seriously underestimated demand. After Toys-R-Us, we went back to Penn Station and headed south again on the train. There was little point in doing much else, as Olympia was whining horribly in a pitiful and weak way (can I fit the word "petulant" in here, too?) about the cold every second we were outside. What a weather lightweight!