Well not really Spring but it was the first warm weekend of the year (over 60⁰F) and you could tell. Bedford Ave went from being a busy street with places to eat and drink to a really, really busy street with lots of places to eat and drink. People discarded their heavy coats and flooded the streets, the outdoor seating appeared and flowers miraculously appeared everywhere (well I made that last part up but you get the idea).
In my never ending quest for reader satisfaction I have decided to try out hyperlinks. So with any luck and the blessing of the gods of the World Wide Web you can savor the delights of the individual establishments a little more closely. I have tried to use the actual website of the establishment in question but sometimes I have just linked some reviews if I thought it would be more interesting (after all it is my blog).
On Saturday Claire went to the Beehive to get her haircut (and whatever else happens at those salons) and suggested that her mother could go there but she shouldn’t be too scared by the tattoos.
We went to the store (you know one where you can see the Statue of Liberty from the parking lot) and bought a bunch of stuff. I am starting to see some differences between NY and Massachusetts. In Mass no alcohol is sold on Sundays (unless it is near Christmas or within 6 miles of the NH border), whereas the sign in NY said no alcohol is served on Sunday before 8:00am.
The worker guys were working on Saturday so we decided to walk up to one of our two local coffee houses, Oslo and Verb, we went to Oslo today. I think that Verb will win the battle of the coffee shops, but I will take you to both when you visit.
Evening brought dinner at Samurai, unsurprisingly a Japanese restaurant. Once again there is a choice of establishments here and so far I am favoring Mizu.
Sunday arrived quickly and it was the day that Claire decided to put the new washer and dryer through its paces. She had a lot of stuff so to fortify ourselves we went off to Egg, our favorite neighborhood brunch place so far.
We were going to start unpacking today but there is still a lot of work to do that will generate a lot of dust, mainly cutting sheetrock, so we have postponed the great unpack – probably to next weekend. So it was a relaxing day doing not much.
We can’t find the box with the pots and pans so home cooking is hard. Tonight’s gastronomic delight was takeout pizza from La Nonna
After that Claire walked home (just as well as I would have lost my parking spot) and we prepared for another week of fun and adventure.
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