A Great Supper and NY,NY

Monday night we had the best supper on board the USS Harv....aka, Molly and Harv's house.

We received the offer of a free meal we jumped at the opportunity.

After renewing the woodwork in their newly remodeled living room we sat down to the most delicious meal of breaded pork chops, squash from the garden, baked potato and salad.


Needless to say, the food was delicious!

Earlier this week I wrote about Sarah and Andy's trip to Philadelphia and New York.

Sarah did a trip recap for us....enjoy the travelogue!

I read on your blog that you guys were curious about our trip. Lol In my excitement about moving I forgot to tell you about it. I will do a recap.

Friday night we got a ride to the airport from Peter G. to find our flight to Detroit delayed an hour. It turned into an hour and forty minutes but somehow they got us to Detroit only forty minutes late. We had to run to our next flight, which thankfully, was waiting because half of the Seattle plane was on that flight. We got into Philly 1/2 hr early where my friend Priya picked us up. She took us to an awesome breakfast place that was really cheap and had great food. After breakfast we went back to her place for a three hour nap. She was all for a nap too since the day before she had worked a 24hr shift at the hospital. She is doing her Obgyn residency. After the nap we were going to try and make the medical oddities museum but we were hungry and there wasn't enough time to do both before we caught our bus to NYC. We ended up not having enough time to eat after getting stuck in traffic. We caught the bus at 5:30pm and found out while waiting to leave that Obama was one block away at the train station leaving for DC. We got into NYC around 7:30pm. Anna's friend Eric, who we stayed with the first two nights, met us and led us back to his apartment via the amazing subway. After dropping our stuff off we ventured back into Manhattan for food and drinks at a cheap bar. We stayed out pretty late, 4ish, and slept until 2ish the next day.

On the second day we ate breakfast at a fancier place and paid $12 for a meal. I had assumed this was the priciest of NYC that I heard about so I didn't care. We later discovered that we had just gone to a fancy place and for the rest of the trip I didn't pay over $6 for breakfast. After breakfast, Eric left us to do his own thing while we went back into Manhattan in search of record stores. Our search brought us to Times Square after a friend told us one was there. There was not. A phone call to another friend got us back on track but not before we walked Times Square and enjoyed the warmth from all the lights. Other than the warmer temperature, Times Square was obnoxious. We found the record store in the East Village and spent a good hour or so there. By that time Anna's other friend, Sebria, had gotten off work and we met her at a veggie restaurant for dinner. After dinner she left us and we went back to Brooklyn and met up with our mutual friend, JR. Her name is actually Jessica and we know her from Seattle. She moved to NYC last year. Eric came out too and we all went to a sweet bar with indoor bocce ball and a venue in the basement. The show in the basement was sold out, as they all seemed to have been, but we played bocce ball and had a good time. That is, until we noticed one of the lanes was open and tried to play a game. It wasn't actually open and the person who won it last was a complete jerk. We had no problem playing him to win the lane for ourselves but he was definitely on something or at best a very intense person. We chose not to play him. After a bit we noticed that the lane was still going unused and that only the guy's partner remained. We asked nicely if our group could play a quick game with each other and then give them back the lane. The partner was just as crazy as the first guy. And the first guy had taken the white ball with him so that no one else could play. This really didn't affect our night or put us in a bad mood but it was amusing. We stayed out late again and got up a little earlier.
Part two:
I think my last email was a little too detailed. lol On Wednesday we visited Ground Zero, rode the Staten Island Ferry, and found another record store. That night we stayed at JR's and closed a bar and was home at 5am. The next day we woke up in time to watch Obama's swearing in and then went out for breakfast. After breakfast we spent a few hours at the Metropolitan Museum of Art which was incredible! We closed another bar knowing that a few hours after going to bed we'd have to be back up. Andy had spent an hour on the phone with the airlines hoping they'd let us skip our first flight since our second flight was out of JFK and we were already in NYC. No such luck. "it's complicated" they told us. We woke at 7:15am, took the subway to the bus stop to catch the Bolt Bus back to Philly. In Philly we crossed the street to the train station and took a train to the airport. At the airport we got on our flight back to NYC only to sit for 1 1/2 hours while they tried to fix a mechanical problem. They couldn't fix it so we deplaned and were put on a flight to Atlanta. After a few hours there we finally left for Seattle. It was a very long day but i can't complain cause the tickets were only $220 and the bus round trip was $22. not bad for getting clear across the country.

So there we have it....news from pork chops to New York City.

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