Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Happy Wife = Happy Life



After breakfast, Andie headed straight to the largest Gap in North America (possibly) in Times Square to stock up on mittens and scarves. Yep, it's bloody freezing here. We'd booked Sunday gospel brunch at BB King's Bar & Grill, featuring all you can eat soul food and the Harlem Gospel Choir. You can guess who liked which element best. After this, it was off to Broadway for "How the Grinch Stole Christmas - The Musical." Oh yes, ain't no escaping Mr Grinch. Andie cried when the theatre snowed. She really did! Iain got to choose Olive Garden for dinner (pasta chain with unlimited minestrone soup and garlic bread). One hour wait though so plumped for the (admittedly somewhat superior) McCormick and Schmicks, a seafood chain we'd enjoyed eating in previously in Boston. This was even better, washed down with some Californian Chandon (of course).

Busy day this, making up for yesterday I guess, we then headed up to Bryant Park Hotel, where we'd stayed last time in New York but for various reasons hadn't got to visit the cocktail bar. It was shut (Sunday). Never mind though as we grabbed a cab back to Gansevoort where we in fact have a rooftop bar. More City views. Not to mention truly lethal cocktails. Mrs Andrea models the Pink Panther, a truly mind-blowing concoction of gin, vodka, white rum, grenadine, champagne and 7-up. Oh dear.