Monday, July 24, 2006

Aigners are nice















Haven't met a mean one yet.

So the mister and missus left last Friday, having spent a week in a classy EV sublet, a studio apartment rented by one stylish Dane. Too bad I'm not more fluent, or I could've taken advantage of what appeared to be a decent Dansk movie collection. Anyway, they settled easily into their temporary digs, and fast came to know the surrounding streets. They also adapted to the Metro way of life in no time, never once hopping a northbound train instead of a southbound (shutup, E), say. In fact, in an embarrassing little display, it was Pea and I who struggled to get us all home from Tribeca. (Not actually our fault, damn w/e train rerouting/discontinuing. But still, made us look bad. Phooey.)

Gosh, given the freakish heat/humidity, the dynamic duo made serious tracks, covering every Lower Manhattan neighborhood on foot plus a few up north. Pea and I hung w/ 'em over the weekend, managing to fit Battery Park, the seaport, Wall Street, a snobbish cafe w/ real-time video showing the actual preparation of our snobbish food, Tribeca, Ground Zero, the Skyscraper Museum (green building exhibit) and other down-there sights into a Saturday afternoon, then Sunday was an All Souls sermon on the intangibility of hope. The four of us did the theatre thing twice during the week, batting zero once, much better the next time. In fact, yes, Shakespeare in the Park(ing Lot) is one of my new favorite free activities. Plot literally unfolds in a parking lot at the corner of Delancey and Broome. The acting was great, and save the occasional (okay, constant) prattling taking place on the sidewalk behind us, and for that matter, our place toward the back of the crowd (note to self: be earlier), I was impressed. Last week was The Tempest, and soon starts As You Like It. (Wanna go, Tiff?)

In sum, I had a fantastic time and I'm glad we had the opportunity to show off our crazy city to two very lovely people. I'd venture to say they had a halfway decent time, too. :)

Posted by princess kanomanom @ 4:41 PM