Dinner at Angus McIndoe

Last night we met my husband's aunt at a restaurant downtown called Angus McIndoe.  We had a great time!

The food was really delicious.  My husband had their conch chowder and I had their le burger superieur and we both thought they were excellent.  Our waitress was wonderfully attentive and the restaurant was lovely.  It was a little pricey but we had a gift card so it wasn't too bad.  The best part was that they were wonderfully understanding about our bringing the baby with us.  She stayed quiet the whole time and everyone made funny faces at her and told us how beautiful she is so we were very pleased that they were so understanding about having a baby in the restaurant.  If you are in the theater district and looking for a good place to eat I highly recommend it. 

Here we are enjoying dinner!  I put black bars over our faces for privacy purposes but this way you get to see the inside of the restaurant (and the baby in all her cuteness!)

Discount Week and Other Fun Stuff

It looks like there is a ton going on this month in NYC!

First up is Restaurant Week.  This is a fabulous time to go to dinner someplace that would normally be out of your price range.  I personally suggest 21 Club or Bobby Van's for dinner because they are both delicious.  Then after dinner you can catch a half price Broadway show during Broadway Week!  Today started the New York Jewish Film Festival and currently you can see the caricature and satire exhibit Infinite Jest at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  All of these things look fantastic for those people who aren't at home taking care of a newborn.  Please go out and experience the wonder of the city so that I can live vicariously through you.

Stand Up at Carolines

On Wednesday my husband and I went to Carolines to see my husband's favorite comedian, Jeff Ross, perform.  We had a great time!

I will say that, as nice as Carolines was, we have other comedy clubs that we prefer in the city.  The only reason we went to see Jeff Ross was because the tickets were a gift from my husband's aunt, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to afford to go.  On top of a fairly pricey ticket they also have a 2 beverage minimum so you aren't getting out of there for less than $120.  We typically will go to Dangerfield's with their online coupon or to the HA! via street hawkers if we want to see some stand up comedy.  The comedians aren't as famous but the prices are significantly better.

I do have a picture but I have to upload it from my husband's phone tonight so it will be up later.  Have a wonderful New Year's Eve (and please don't stand in Times Square for 16 hours to see the ball drop...just go to a party or stay home and eat chinese food like the rest of the sane people in NYC.)

The Philharmonic

Last night I went with a friend of mine to see Handel's Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall.  It was fabulous!  I consider myself very lucky that she had a spare ticket as they are so expensive that I wouldn't have been able to go otherwise and it was a wonderful performance.  The only bad part was that the Tenor became ill and his part of the show was cut after the first act, but frankly most of the people there were simply there to see one thing anyway so it wasn't the most terrible thing to have happen.  I ran out the door without my camera unfortunately but I did take a picture of the program when I got home!

I'm so glad that I got a chance to get out and do something "Christmas-y" this year.  With the baby at home we've been very busy and mostly home bound so we haven't had a chance to do the things you normally do in NYC during the holidays like seeing the tree at Rockefeller Center or the decorations at all the stores on 5th Ave.  We haven't even had snow yet this year except for one freak storm in October!  Usually I'm a big fan of this time of year but this year it seems like we are putting the holidays on pause and making up for it next year instead.

Sucky Winter Weather

I love cold weather.  LOVE it.  For my honeymoon my husband and I traveled to Finland in November and went up to the arctic circle where we did snow tubing and dog sledding.  We are really into cold, wintery weather.

So, of course, this year it has been 60 freaking degrees every day.  We have the air conditioner on and it is December 7th!  I'm dreaming of a white Christmas and instead I'm getting a warm, wet, gross winter.  Sigh.  At least the lights are still up all over the city so I'm enjoying that!

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!  I'm still here, I promise, but man am I busy.  Last week the baby was born and since then we've been sleeping in shifts and I've been surviving on percocet after a very difficult c-section.  I'll be back eventually with all sorts of New York-y things for you once I've had a chance to heal and sleep a little.

Halloween

Halloween in NYC was pretty hilarious.  The kids trick or treat from store to store instead of apartment to apartment which means we were not disturbed all night long.  I can just imagine the ruckus if the doorbell kept activating the dog every 4 minutes!

The best part though was the tweenager costumes.  Normally I am against 10-13 year old girls wearing slutty Halloween costumes but this year I was just fine with it.  Why, you ask?  Because it was so chilly out that they all had to wear coats, leggings, hats, and gloves with their costumes!  I saw a 12 year old in a playboy bunny outfit and the only skin you could see on her was her face.  Mother nature knew how to help out an exasperated parent this year!

I swear I will bring back pictures on the blog here soon.  I'm due to pop in less than 2 weeks and then I will be able to move around like a normal human being again.  That will dramatically improve my picture taking abilities.

Winning the Lottery

On Friday we won the lottery!  The theater ticket lottery, that is.  Most of the big shows on Broadway have a lottery before each performance where you can win super cheap front row seats if your name is pulled.  My husband had some time to kill so he went down and entered the lottery for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and he won!  He was the last name pulled and only got one ticket so he gave it to me because he knows how much I wanted to see this show.

It was phenomenal!  Daniel Radcliffe is so cute (I saw him in Equus last year too...yep, I got to see Harry Potter's magic wand!) and John Larroquette was wonderful.  Front row seats were amazing and only $30 for the lottery winners, which is pretty amazing considering I haven't seen orchestra tickets for this show for less than $180 in almost a year.  I did take pictures and I will upload them later but right now my camera is across the room and my dog is on my lap and she is too cute to disturb.

And finally pictures are here!  Well, one picture at least.

Love, Loss and What I Wore

On Friday my husband and I had free tickets to see Love, Loss and What I Wore on 43rd St.  We had a great time!

Before the show we went to Juniors because it was free cheesecake day!  My husband had the pumpkin cheesecake and I had the devil's food cheesecake.  I had their wonderful southern fried chicken breast and it was delicious.

The show was wonderful!  It was lovely to find a show with a character that I was so able to identify with on the stage.  That doesn't happen often for me, being a plus sized woman and all.  I highly recommend the show if you haven't seen it already.

Dinner and Protesters

Last night we went out to dinner at Amor Cubano again.  I've mentioned them previously and they are super delicious!  We had a gift certificate we got from my husband's mother so dinner was free which was a super bonus.

I keep seeing the protesters on Wall St every day.  I hope they are able to make a difference...I think their message is a good one even if I think they are going about sharing it the wrong way.