Week 2 - The fun continues

Here we go on week 2 of indoor camping. We are much more in tune with the schedule of the work day now.

Wake up at 7:45, go downstairs to get the paper, 8:15 Rico and his helper arrive and start work. 9:00 Peg and I get started with phone calls and general stuff, 10:30 Dave’s nap #1, 12:30 lunch, 2:30 Dave’s nap #2, 4:00 walk to somewhere to either get some supplies or just for exercise – yes I said exercise – 7:00 dinner, 11:00 sleep.

This week I did go to Joe’s Busy Corner to buy some lunch meat - 3 short blocks away – really good Italian deli stuff. We also walked to a market (Khim’s Millennium Market). While this was pretty unmemorable, we did walk by a public indoor swimming pool which has been a “Williamsburg Institution since 1922” This neighborhood is amazing there is something new around every corner, I hope the discoveries continue – I feel like a kid in awe of his surroundings.

On Wednesday evening we went out for dinner and decided on French cuisine. We went to Fada, again this is about 3 short blocks away on our street. It looks like a Parisian Bistro on the outside and serves food that certainly lives up to expectations on the inside. I had roasted fennel soup, boeuf tartare and biere brune (which turned out to be Brooklyn lager – my favorite and just think of all those beer miles I’m saving). It was a little more expensive than the usual fare, but definitely high on the list of places to go back to.

At this point I would like to announce that Verb Café has beaten out Oslo for the coffee shop of choice although we just noticed the Blackbird Parlour across the street. Well I knew it was there, just not that It was a coffee shop. Round 2 begins. March Madness has nothing on this !!

So on Friday the workmen (Rico & Amigo) said that they would be finished tomorrow – and this time I believed them. On Saturday they came in and finished off all the big stuff, cleaned up a lot and moved all of their stuff out.

So we are now down to the punch list which has just started.