We're back!

Actually, we've been back since Thursday night, but I was too lazy/busy to update the blog (Friday was spent doing laundry, working out, packing my office for my upcoming move to the new team, etc.)

Let me see if I can wrap up the last few days in NYC with some random thoughts.

On our last day there, the weather finally got decent, in that the humidity dipped below 99% for once.

We went through the public library, which was a pretty cool place. The famous Reading Room even has laptop power and wifi. Now all it needs is a Starbucks! Of course, on the way in to the library, I had to say "I ain't afraid of no ghosts!" and ended up having that Ghostbusters theme song going through my head the whole time (see the first scene of that movie again if you don't remember!)

We ate some Cuban food (my first halfway decent Cuban food) with Laurel's college friend Greg, and some Vietnamese food (my first ever) with my college friend Dan.

We went to the NY Transit Museum in Brooklyn, but I was so freakin' hot and sweaty that day, I couldn't enjoy it (plus it was a museum). So I mostly sat in an air-conditioned room and watched a movie about the making of the subway, but the sound was screwed up, so not much to report there. Perhaps Laurel will blog about it. We did pick up a nice gift for the soon-to-be-four-years-old Henry Hale (a "4" line subway T-shirt!)

We went to B&H Photo, the biggest camera store in the world. I didn't buy anything.

Speaking of buying things, it was a pretty light trip for purchases. We got some clothes at the GAP to replace some of our sweat-soaked garments; I bought a bunch of new stuff from the Art of Shaving, but I would have bought that online anyway. We got that shirt for Henry. I think that's about it! Cheap trip, phew!

Weird thing our last day there ... our hotel was shutting down to be converted into condos. We may have been the last hotel guests ever to check out from the Melrose! It's OK, because we already decided we weren't going to stay there again anyway (we've been there twice).

Laurel finally got her "street falafel" on the last day (from a food cart on the corner near the Museum of Modern Art, which thankfully we didn't have time to visit).

Tons of walking and subway riding. I got a blister on my heel, so we stopped into a drugstore at midnight to get some bandages, and the woman in front of me in line was buying a home pregnancy test: Good luck with that!

I'm sure there are other random bits I've forgotten, but Laurel wants to read this now, so I'll post it and let her add!