Today was mostly a WIPE for us. We spent most of the day piddling about, being sleepy & waiting to hear about a place to stay. We finally have a "home" for the rest of the time here but it's nothing like what we wanted. We wanted to stay in the Village as we've never done that before. Or, on the upper east side, like Alex did when he was working on
Vanilla Sky. But we ended up on the upper west side. But not even the area that we know & love so well from living there. In New York (as in most cities) a matter of blocks can make a huge difference so the 10 blocks north & 4 (long) blocks west of where we're used to being is nothing like "home". It feels so far away from everything. Like it's the suburbs. Luckily it is right near a subway stop so it shouldn't be too hard to get out, but there's not much for us to walk to around here. It's all residential.
It's a place owned by a musician though. An entire wall of books (you know how much we love that) and oh so very New York in that every tiny space is efficiently filled with stuff. After getting our luggage here we promptly fell asleep. Then, just before midnight we woke up hungry. We wondered off into the night to find some food, because restaurants still serve at midnight here. Not the cheap diners but normal restaurants. Before we could get to the restaurant street though we found a grocery shop. Thinking it might close at midnight we went in & got some munchies etc. Turns out they're open 24hours! Yea! And they have a great selection of stuff. Better than the Whole foods near us in LA. What a relief.
So, now off to sleep on one of the hardest beds I've ever felt in my life. As they say in
A Chorus line... "it wasn't paradise, but, it, was, home".
*(WIPE =well intentioned. Poorly executed)Labels: home, nyc