Whew. What a fun past couple o' days.
Thursday and Friday were great fun at work. Fridays the astro department has wine and cheese. Seeing as how Earth and Planetary Sciences (my department) is quite chummy with the astro department I was able to attend. Nice wines and nice cheeses. Lots of fun. At work.
So yesterday was full of lots of wandering. I explored a few more blocks of Broadway and indeed have found the largest piece of pizza I have ever seen. I wish I had brought my camera. A little mom and pop pizza resteraraunt called Koronett's just a couple blocks away from me. I was served one slice on a cafeteria tray. Just to give you an idea of it's giganticness... the pizza slice touched both ends of the tray width wise. And length wise it exceeded the end of the tray, hanging off about an inch or two.
And I ate the entire slice. Can't honestly say I felt so hot after that... but I did it. =)
After the pizza experience I wondered into a tiny little hippy shop that reminded me of something you'd find on Bardstown Rd in KY... yet it was slightly more yuppified. As everything here seems to be. But none the less I enjoyed the organo-sheek boutique and maybe I'll go back soon. Can't remember the name...
Later in the night was followed by a very long trip to Little Italy (we couldn't find it to begin with...). But when my friends and I finally did find it, oh how worth it it was. Again, I've dropped the ball on the camera thing..
They close the streets in Little Italy in the summer time and basically have a gigantic party in the streets. There are Italian flags everywhere. Lots of street vendors, only slightly more classy than those fellows you find in Times Square... as the Italian ones actually have a little hut to sell out of. And I've officially had the best teramissu in my life... which is saying something as my family is sort of obsessed with trying that dessert everywhere. The tiny little dessert shop also claimed to serve the world's best cannoli... and so far in my life I've got to agree. Splitting three desserts among five people was very affordable and we got out of there full at 4 bucks a person.
After Little Italy we passed China Town but neglected to go as it was almost midnight and didn't look too busy. That's going to be saved for another night.
There's also something here called bubble tea which is a funny thing to behold. I've never heard of it in KY... but if you can find it, get it. It's somewhat of an Asian craze and my roommate Rui was astonished that I'd never heard of it. It's regular tea mixed with some sort of cream and these squishy spheres from tapioca pudding. That's the best way to put it... it took me a while to get used to it. At first it sort of felt like I was eating eyeballs through a wide straw while drinking tea... but once I was assured that they are really balls of flour and not eyeballs, it was all good.
I'll update again soon and hopefully give some pictures that time. I know, reading hurts.