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New York and Somerville
Dec. 20th, 2009 08:19 pmThursday evening, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beowabbit and I did a very quick trip to New York. It was a business trip for him, and a leisure trip for me. He got us a very nice hotel room for $95 on Priceline that included a much better than average complimentary breakfast. After we ate, he headed to his meetings, and I hit the subway and headed to the Rose Space Center for some fun astronomy geeking. The Rose is very much worth a visit and I'm glad I went, though it turns out it's really geared for school kids (I don't really know why I expected it not to be, now that I think about it). I saw the planetarium show, which is a nice intro to astronomy and the universe. The galleries are somewhat sparse, but certainly worth a stroll. After that, I had some time to kill before meeting up with Wabbit, so I wandered the garment district near our hotel, and was lucky enough to stumble upon Ben's Kosher Deli, which is actually a sit-down restaurant, where I had a late lunch. Three words: Nom, nom, NOM. It was so good that I brought Wabbit back there for dinner. Then a Greyhound home. The mini-trip was a success for both of us.
Back in Somerville on Saturday,surrealestate called to invite me to be her tour guide helper on the Illuminations Tour. For those not local, Somerville is known for (among less positive things) the festive Christmas light displays that people create on their houses. Mock-trolley buses take viewers all around to view the lights. It was lovely, and I had fun helping surrealestate as she narrated the ride and led viewers in holiday songs (she took the navigation job away from me pretty quickly, which was probably the smartest thing to do!). I'm glad there's still something nice left for me to like about Somerville, given that it feels like it's turning into a police state with all the new ticketing and fines for parking, not shoveling in time, trash cans without lids, etc. The Illuminations tour made me feel a bit better about this city.
beowabbit and I did a very quick trip to New York. It was a business trip for him, and a leisure trip for me. He got us a very nice hotel room for $95 on Priceline that included a much better than average complimentary breakfast. After we ate, he headed to his meetings, and I hit the subway and headed to the Rose Space Center for some fun astronomy geeking. The Rose is very much worth a visit and I'm glad I went, though it turns out it's really geared for school kids (I don't really know why I expected it not to be, now that I think about it). I saw the planetarium show, which is a nice intro to astronomy and the universe. The galleries are somewhat sparse, but certainly worth a stroll. After that, I had some time to kill before meeting up with Wabbit, so I wandered the garment district near our hotel, and was lucky enough to stumble upon Ben's Kosher Deli, which is actually a sit-down restaurant, where I had a late lunch. Three words: Nom, nom, NOM. It was so good that I brought Wabbit back there for dinner. Then a Greyhound home. The mini-trip was a success for both of us. Back in Somerville on Saturday,
surrealestate called to invite me to be her tour guide helper on the Illuminations Tour. For those not local, Somerville is known for (among less positive things) the festive Christmas light displays that people create on their houses. Mock-trolley buses take viewers all around to view the lights. It was lovely, and I had fun helping surrealestate as she narrated the ride and led viewers in holiday songs (she took the navigation job away from me pretty quickly, which was probably the smartest thing to do!). I'm glad there's still something nice left for me to like about Somerville, given that it feels like it's turning into a police state with all the new ticketing and fines for parking, not shoveling in time, trash cans without lids, etc. The Illuminations tour made me feel a bit better about this city.