La Vie En Rose for 2007 April 2

(in no particular order, after the first one):

• Seeing Leonard for the first time in almost a year
• Watching USC get beat, haha, in a sports bar in the Upper East Side
• Being in a real city for the first time in ages
• The view of Central Park from the "Top of the Rock"
• Finding that book on Serbian history at The Strand
• The view of lower Manhattan from the Staten Island ferry, looking so
• pretty and perfect from a distance that they could have been in Disneyland
• Hearing French spoken at least once a day, and other languages, and different accents in general, making me feel like I was back in Europe
• Seeing crocodiles at the Met and the Cloisters
• Reading my Lonely Planet guidebook pretty much cover to cover on subway rides
• Walking the Brooklyn bridge in the rain
• Watching hour after hour of "Reginald Perrin"
• Practicing my Cyrillic in Little Odessa.
• Walking, walking, walking

Food Highlights: (pretty much every meal was memorable. I wished there was a way to eat without getting full.or fat!.because there were so many delicious things to try)

• Having a delicious bagel with lox cream cheese spread
• Shawfel, a combination so perfect I can't believe I've never had it before
• The best sushi I've had in a long time in the East Village
• Freezing at the Shake Shake
• Pizza at Leonard and Sumana's Battlestar Galatica "party"
• Trying cheese at the Greenmarket in Union Square
• A very memorable - and delicious - and slightly irreverent early Seder
• Chatting with Leonard's clever and interesting friends over a gourmet dinner at 8 1/2