Michele Visits NYC 2012

It's not clear whether Michele missed New York more or New York missed Michele more (probably the latter) but she decided to catch a train up to visit for a few days. I saw her the day she arrived, and though I would have liked to see her another one of the days, I was still in recovery some days later. I've mentioned this before but I'm old and my toddler like to get up at 4:30 AM or worse, and that makes for really poor recoveries from fun night out. But it was worth it!

I met Michele at Penn Station where the Christmas decorations and the armed guards were out in full force. Christmas is strange in New York.  From there we went to a wine bar in the West Village, and shared a huge bottle of wine with her friend Yael.

At Gusto Ristorante with Michele and Yael 

Afterwards, we met with Kirsten, and went for a late dinner at the Meatball Shop. It is so delicious. All of it. I had the classic meatballs and the buffalo chicken meatballs with polenta. Then we decided we needed ice cream sandwiches too. Yael and I shared an espresso ice cream on one snickerdoodle cookie and one brownie cookie. It tasted like a Momofuku compost cookie but a million times better if such a thing is imaginable.

 

Kirsten, me, Yael, and Michele at The Meatball Shop!

Oh yeah, and we had more wine at the meatball shop. All of that wine resulted in these super self-portraits in front of Yael's Christmas tree. Which is fitting, because Michele visiting is one of the best Christmas presents!

Holiday love