October 12, 2006
New York City (ch. 4)
Slowly moving along...
Saturday morning we were amazingly up and ready to go at a decent hour. Catherine had told us the best place to get brunch in New York City was the Red Eye. She also told us it didn't open until noon, so we thought we'd meander over via 5th Avenue and some shopping hot spots (which we quickly came to realize we couldn't afford). But we did come across Rockefeller Center.
I told Tanker we should go ice skating. This was his reaction:
As you can probably guess, we didn't go ice skating. So... do they have ice skating there year-round? Because doesn't it seem like the first weekend in October is a little too early to start ice skating?
We got to the Red Eye Grill around 10:40. We had kind of hoped that Catherine was wrong about the time it opened, but she wasn't. We decided we couldn't wait another hour and twenty minutes, so we went to the first place we saw that was open. That was a mistake. I can't remember the name of the restaurant. It seemed nice. It was expensive enough that it should've been nice. But it wasn't. In fact, it was really hot. Sometimes businesses overcompensate for a cold day by cranking up the heat, and I have to say that that is a mistake.
I couldn't decide what to get for lunch, but I figured you couldn't go wrong with a turkey sandwich. But when all you get is dry turkey on a dry bun for $14, you went wrong with a turkey sandwich. We swiped some spicey mustard from the table next to us, but it wasn't enough for me to salvage my meal. Tanker's hot pastrami was pretty good, though.
At least it was filling, but it left me thirsty. We stopped by a drugstore for some drinks and then made our way to Central Park for a stroll.
We came out of the park near the Museum of Natural History, which was perfect because that's exactly where we wanted to go. That experience coming up in the next installment of my New York City Adventure.
Posted by kea at October 12, 2006 10:36 PM