Weekend Four of Winter in Manhattan Odyssey: Saturday and Sunday

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
                                        Virginia Woolf

Slept in a bit, thank God, and had a wonderfully lazy late morning, early afternoon, drinking coffee,  The Girls, Roomie, and I.  we snacked on the munchies I had picked up the night before. A lousy weather day, heavy rain, foggy, thankfully not too cold. What to do? Manis and Pedis. It is truly a treat to walk around the corner, literally, and be able to get these treatments.

from Susan C.

            Then home to get beautiful for our dinner date at Esca. We were treated like Queens as everybody was very happy to see K2. we went soup to nuts, again, so  never a cheap meal here, but awesome. Everybody was a bit excited as Denzel Washington was supposed to be coming in. I exclaimed that I would have to hang around the bar to wait, but then found out it was to be a late dinner, so we left. (As it turned out Denzel was a no show,“just” his Wife, and friends.  Glad we didn’t hang around.)

Flea Market

Elsa's from Jean-Paul P.

 off to Elsa’s (East 3^rd between Avenues B & C ) a Great  place to meet with friends. And about 10 of K's did come in, Around 1a.m. I hit my wall, K and I went “home.
   Up again Sunday morning for an intimate brunch for 8, down in the EastVillage at Flea Market (Ave A between St Mark’s Place and 9^th.) It was a glorious, sunny day.



Museum of Natural History, frorm the website

  After Brunch K1 and I decided to go to the Museum of Natural History (Central Park West and 81^stStreet) as she had read about two special exhibits that interested her. We walked from the East Village west through Greenwich Village, NYU, Washington Square Park, and jumped on the MTA up to 81^stStreet to the Museum. Kind of cool, you can walk right into the Museum from the underground T stop. Bought our tickets, one thing kind of dismaying, some of the special exhibits have an additional fee. 

from The Tibetian Medical Paintings Exhibit

The first exhibit we went to was “The Brain”. It wasn’t what we expected.  It was geared for families, we think, so in that realization, it was good. The Museum is truly massive, so in trying to find the other exhibits, you have no choice but to roam among many different galleries. The dinosaur room is always amazing. Finally found the Tibetan Medical paintings exhibit. Quite interesting, and beautiful, the details in the art was amazing.

Found ourselves outside and the day was beautiful. We decided to just start walking through “the Park”. Everytime I go into Central Park, I am grateful to the “powers that Were” to have had the foresight to create this incredible urban oasis. It is gorgeous every single season of the year. It’s always so invigorating to be surrounded by hundreds of people who are out amongst you, soaking up the beauty, the sun, and the day, especially with the winter we’re all enduring.

Fusha. from their website

  With all the food we had eaten over the weekend, we decided we needed a bit more before the bus ride home. We headed to Fusha on 1^stand 58^th, an Asian restaurant that had a great menu, and decided on some Miso soup, and sushi. Perfect.

  Home to pack, and rest a bit, then into a cab to grab our Megabus home. Grabbed the first row on the top deck for fun, but unfortunately a group settled in around us who did not know how to use their indoor voices. So, we snoozed of and on to be constantly awoken with high pitched foreign language screeching into our consciousness. Overall an awesome weekend. I truly love nothing more than spending quality time with my Ladies.  It was FUN!!!