Philadelphia and New York, bite by bite, part 2

Genevieve and John enjoy a couple bowls of rice pudding at Rice to Riches in New York. One of the many places we stopped at over our long weekend.

We had a quick bus trip up to New York City. Roger especially enjoyed the showing of "Starsky & Hutch" on the bus. When we arrived at Port Authority, we were met by my brother Jeremy and our friend John Kim. The two were ready to walk with us through Midtown, so we took the train up near 50th Street. Jeremy treated us with free passes to the MOMA, where we got to walk through the new Cezanne-Pisarro exhibit.


Roger, me, and Jeremy re-enacting my favorite photo of my parents in New York, before GeJeJer (Genevieve-Jeffrey-Jeremy).

We had dinner at The Red Cat, which had very good fries! The atmosphere, the food, and the people reminded us very much of our old favorite Chicago haunt, Bistro Campagne. Stuffed, we caught the PATH train to New Jersey and called it a night.

The next day, Monday, John took the day off to go traipsing around the city with us. We headed straight to Katz Deli for some hearty corned beef sandwiches. Yummy! We then made our way to NoLiTa and SoHo to do some shopping, despite the oppressive humidity. Some of us bought girly things, some of us bought shoes. We were all sweating heavily by the end of the day, but we did get to walk quite a lot.

After a snack of rice pudding (Jeremy's recommendation), John headed back to Hoboken. Roger and I walked to Greenwich Village and enjoyed some iced tea at Joe, the Art of Coffee, near NYU.

We called up one more friend that we really wanted to visit, Najm and his wife Huma, and their little girl Ayla. We caught the L train east to Peter Cooper Village, where Najm and Huma lived. Najm and Roger met as residents at Rush, and we used to hang out at Najm's apartment near the Mag Mile, watching movies on Najm's large pull-down screen and playing with baby Ayla. After getting reacquainted, we walked down Avenue A and settled on dinner at one of their favorite pizza places, Adriatic Italian Restaurant on 1st Street. Mm, thin crust pizza!


Fully sated, here we are with Najm and Ayla. Ayla's a big girl now!

The next day, our final day, we took the ferry out from Hoboken to Manhattan, a very nice ride, and caught brunch at Cafe Metro. We said good-bye to John and took the bus back to Philly. No movie this time, although we needed the time to nap.

With our flight back to Manchester leaving around 4 o'clock, we spent our last hour in Philly walking up and down South Street. Although we didn't buy anything, we made note of Ishkabibble's, which came highly recommended by another friend, Jon Webb. Next time, we'll be sure to take more time to visit this trendy area.