EATING AND OTHER PLEASURES

These are our last two days in New York.  Tears are streaming down my face as I write this.  No, wait, that's sweat.  No wait, it's cool, can't be sweat, must be that Julia, the water cat has decided to help me drink water.  

Yesterday we

had a fun time.  We went to the Museum of Art and Design where they had a glass show and a jewelry show.  I was in heaven.  

We had a fabulous lunch from a Halal cart, a falafel sandwich.  It was good, mostly because it was something you couldn't get in Sacramento, but I've had better.  Then we went to MOMA and verna was a real trouper and didn't complain once abut my having the address wrong and causing her to have to walk two or three  extra blocks.  When we were near the museum we stopped  in at the American Craftsman to see if they had any Lazer Glass, and they did, so we decided they would be allowed to stay in business.  She went to the museum, and I, the Philistine, went shopping.  I was still looking for a particular street vendor with a particular purse, but mostly it was to go to all the fabulous bead shops in the garment district.  However, time was short and I only got to go to six.  By the way, it took the woman working in the store four tries to get this picture not blurry.  

We took a wild chance at a restaurant called Flor de Mayo and it was wonderful.  A Peruvian/Chinese menu. 

Today, our last real day,we went to Barbuto's in the west village.  It's  a place Verna knew from cooking shows, and it definitely lived up to expectation.  We had oven roasted chicken, some kind of crispy fried potatoes, , corn and bruschetta,  I also had Prosecco.  We sat in a premium spot for Verna where she could watch the kitchen. I could watch all the beautiful people in the rest of the place 

The rest of our lazy day was playing with cats, going to Zabars, and going to Trader joese