THE BEST LAID PLANS

Our plan today was to go to the NYC film festival showing of Seymour, an invitation.  We knew it was today and thought it was probably tonight.  Then we saw on their website that it appeared it was a short feature among a bunch of features at 2 pm.  Since I didn't get my lazy butt out of bed until 11:45 this morning -- three days into the trip and I'm still claiming Pacific Time --it was 1:15 before we left to go to Lincoln center, which is close.  When we got there, we discovered that the actual showing of the film we wanted to see was at 9:00 pm, and it was sold out.  

Now bereft of plans, we decided to go to Chinatown

on a watch-hunting excursion.  It's interesting how Canal Street has changed.  A whole block that used to be open-to-the-street shops full of cheap knockoffs has now become nice glass-front stores selling real gold jewelry.  

We did eventually find a watch, but not what I was looking for.  However, we also didn't just walk on Canal Street, but to some time to explore the other intersecting streets a bit.  The groceries were really interesting.  

I also meant to buy these tights, but the vendor was too busy. 

After we came back from Chinatown, we had an early dinner (Martha is teaching tonight) at a Turkish restaurant called Bohdrum on Amsterdam.  The food was really good.  We had roasted chicken with extra crispy, slightly salty skin and juicy meat inside.  The side dishes of Yukon gold potatoes and mixed squash was delicious as well. As an appetizer we had imam bayaldi, which is the first "exotic" dish I ever learned to cook.  It's an eggplant dish, and the name, roughly translated, means "the priest has fainted" presumably because it was so good.

We came back to Martha's and joined her recorder group for snacks after their group was done with their lesson.