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saturday in the city

We woke late on Saturday and had a leisurely breakfast of chocolate chip muffins, cran-grape juice for me and a chocolate breakfast shake for the husband.  I made us bring food from home for breakfast, as we often spend way too much money on mediocre breakfasts when we travel – I’d rather spend not much on mediocre breakfasts by bringing the food ourselves.

We took the ferry to the city, but as it was the weekend, we had to take the hotel shuttle to the port with weekend-Weehawken service.

Once we made to the other side of the Hudson river, we walked the short way around the Javits center to get to the front door, having learned our lesson from the day before.  We walked in late to a Batman panel that had the potential to be cool, but it was just some dude telling us how cool he was, his whole bootstrap story.  Which is a good story, don’t get me wrong, I have one of my own, but it just wasn’t what I was expecting.

We then went to the crowded food court to get lunch of a blood-dripping rare cheeseburger (for the husband) and a grilled chicken sandwich for myself.  My sandwich was good, but the husband ate his as quickly as possible so as to not think about his raw beef.

We caught the incredibly not-funny star trekkin’ improv comedy group, the moderately boring champions online/star-trek online panel, and the heated genders-in-comics panel.  After some wandering through the vendor room, we decided to call it a day, even though we had planned to hit a comedy show in the city that evening.

We rode the ferry back, and since it was a warmer night than the previous one had been, we braved the elements and sat on top.  It was a scenic ride back with the city all lit up.

In the room, we tried to order Papa John’s pizza, but all the stores I called referred me to another store, with the final store giving me a number that was disconnected.  After that failure, I just called roomservice to order a well-done burger and some french-onion soup.

The soup was sweeter than I expected, and I followed it up some famous amos cookies.  The husband thoroughly enjoyed his no-traces-of-pink burger, and I stole his pickle.  We caught some Alien-Predator movie on HBO, and I finished up our Jayne hats (I never got around to weaving in the ends).

We headed to bed early so we could get up nice and early to get in line for the Chuck panel – the real reason for our trip.

2 replies on “saturday in the city”

Because I’m unclear as to if you are still in NY because you are posting something about Saturday today and today is Thursday, i’ll just add that if you are still in Saturday, head to Sara Beth’s for brunch. It’s near the east side of the park, 42nd or so and Madison.

I dropped by there when I was in NY a couple weeks ago. It’s a little pricey, but it is far from mediocre.

It is probably the best breakfast I’ve ever had, ever. It was EPIC (as the kids say).

I had the country breakfast (eggs, grits, chicken apple sausage, a scone). It was phenomenal.

I also went to a show and saw Shrek the musical. We got tickets at TKTS in Time Square for 40% of face value. Worth a cold wait in line.

Also, stop by Juniors for some EPIC cheesecake.

Haha, I wish I was still in Saturday! Unfortunately, we came back Sunday, but the husband convinced me that I needed to blog our adventures so that his coworkers could read them. So I’ve got one more day left to chronicle…

I will definitely take your culinary advice for my next trip to the big city! Of course, you’ll have to tell me how exactly you eat grits – I ordered them once but found them bland, I found out later you’re supposed to put stuff on them. 🙂

So how was Shrek? We saw that it was there, but couldn’t imagine it would make a good play …

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