It's been a while, but really there was knitting (and frogging) going on. We are back from NYC. It was a lot of fun and even more so because things just fell into place at the last minute and we were able to do most everything we wanted to do.
We started out on Saturday night meeting up with friends for dinner at this restaurant called "La Vela" on the upper west side and we found a parking space right in front of the restaurant. How often does that happen? Dinner was wonderful. I guess they are known for their gnocchi with 4 cheeses, but I don't care for gnocchi so it was mushroom ravioli for me... delicious. Next we went to Times' Square (and found parking on the street) for the play "Prelude to a Kiss" at the Roundabout Theatre. The play was really well done and everyone got a taste of what it is like having Nancy and Peter (Robyn Bartlett and James Rebhorn) as their parents.... since the lead actress's parents are almost EXACTLY my parents. They even looked like my parents. I wonder if the playwright knows them. It was uncanny.
Sunday we went to the Museum of Natural History... just fabulous dinosaurs and also a great butterfly exhibit. We then walked via Central Park to Dylans Candy Bar (to balance out the museum experience) and had dinner at Heartland Brewery where they make their own sodas... and the root beer is out of this world. The beer is pretty good too. We met up with our neighbors also who were in the city for the weekend as well.
We had planned on doing this great museum The Museum of the Moving Image on Monday but there was a water main break there and they were closed. It was extremely cold on Monday which meant we couldn't walk around, so that put a major damper on what we could do. So we decided to drive to Battery Park (again found free parking on the street) to see the Statue of Liberty since our friend Kate had never seen it. We opted not to take the boat over (although amazingly enough, people did and were out on the upper deck even in that -10 wind chill.) We took pictures and hopped back in the car. Drove by the Brooklyn Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge and ate lunch at a little place called Pete's Tavern. Pete's has an interesting history in that it is the longest open restaurant and bar in NYC and lots of writers hung out there. O. Henry wrote "Gift of the Magi" there. The beer was good there also. Apparently they stayed open even during prohibition disguised as a flower shop. We found free parking again on the street (it was a holiday after all) and it would have been great to walk around because that Gramercy Park area is so nice, but the cold forced us back in the car.
So the weekend netted only $10 in parking fees, a reasonable and yet tasty dinner before a good play, a great museum, a fabulous candy store, great root beer, the Statue of Liberty and a historic place for lunch all with people we like to spend time with.
Oh and the knitting. You know I had 4 hours in the car on the way down, so I made some progress on the neglected cable socks. Got the heal turned, and am working on the foot. The yarn is a hand dyed and spun grey wool that I picked up at a fair. It is luxuriously soft. I hope it holds up well for socks. It sure has a nice feel to it when knitting. I have been doing alot of thinking about the next major project. The Cromarty can't happen with the yarn I had for the Inishmore because the yarn I have is a dk weight. So I think I may make the St. Brigid. I like that one except for the tassels. I also really like Inishmore except for the bottom ribbing. (I don't like any ribbing at all.) Maybe there will be some adapting going on. My other option is an Elizabeth Zimmermann yoke sweater. Which would be fairly quick. Guess which way I'm leaning....
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