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February 18, 2007
Dave & Audrey
Very dear friends of ours, Dave & Audrey, emailed a few weeks ago and asked if we'd be around in February, they had some Aeroplan points to use and were considering a trip to New York. Of course, we'd love to see you. They arrived Friday evening, and I had found a great spot around the corner for them to stay (despite our insistance, they wanted to stay at a B&B). On Friday afternoon, I dropped off a bag full of what I call the New York City Survival Kit: bottle of wine, two MetroPasses for the subway, subway maps, blister bandaids, earplugs, and a few other things.
They popped by for drinks Friday evening, and we went out to the loudest restaurant for dinner. I mean, I thought Balthazar was ridiculously loud, but this was RIDICULOUS. We could barely hear each other. We asked if we could go takeout, and they moved us to the back of the restaurant, where they offered to turn the horrible music down. SAPA on 24th Street. We don't recommend it.
Saturday, we met up for dinner at our standby favourite, Il Corso on 55th Street, and then went to see the Drowsy Chaperone. Cute, but I would skip it. A couple of great lines, like "Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder", and from two gangsters disguised as French bakers "You're in big truffle now. There's muffin you can do". Get the point.
We had a brief visit Sunday morning before they trekked off to the Tenement Museum, and then caught their flight home to Toronto. We miss them already. They are wonderful people who grasp life by the short and curlies. Audrey turns 80 in April, and you wouldn't know it. We had trouble keeping up to her.
See you again soon!
Posted by dave at February 18, 2007 06:12 PM