so maybe needing some new adjectives

okay, not saving the best for last today. this plastic thanksgiving "centerpiece" [?] is the new "best thing" in the house.


BEST THING EVER


c'mon, how could you not LOVE those faces?

others would say that terry's BULL is the "best thing" in the house. whatever.


whatever!

so, i didn't write about it, but last weekend i went to nyc to visit my sister. we crammed lots of things into my short stay. she was off friday, so first we went to the museum of natural history, which i was SO pumped for. unfortunately and surprisingly, i found it kind of boring, and the amount of school children there [reportedly 68 busloads!] was totally patience-trying.




my most-hated animal


favorite display, by far


unrealistic?


this is what baby bear terry looks like in the morning when he doesn't wanna get up and won't let go of me

then we ate a late lunch at jean-georges, the restaurant at which my sister is an extern. it's a really fancy, really really good restaurant. in the top three in the city. we didn't take pictures there, but we ate amazing/crazy food like venison and frog legs and shrimp sashimi [i think?/!], and we also got a ton of extra desserts on the house. i was SO stuffed. cramming mini macaroons and chocolates in my mouth. i wish i had a pic of that! i definitely had a food baby after that. we shopped afterwards and had a late snack/dinner at yaffa café on the lower east side, which has the BEST decor of any establishment i've been to [the second being "the jesus bar" in paris plastered completely with religious iconography and the bathrooms in porn].


changing shoes in columbus circle

she had to work saturday, so i let the wind blow me around the city. i spent most of my time in greenwich village/east village and union square area.






the new nyc see! [what a ridiculous phrase, man, ha]

after work, steph met me at union square to feast at max brenner. and we did! we got the big-big "sharing" plate, which included waffles with candied bananas, a chocolate cup with pop rocks, a bunch of other stuff [pictured] AND chocolate fondue AND roasting marshmallows. seriously. ha! and we ate the whole thing! max brenner's is my absolute favorite new place. i want to go there on my birthday and every single occasion and every non-occasion in between.


YUM!!

sunday was the chocolate show, and steph had to help out with johnny iuzzini's [her boss] demo. afterwards we walked around, sampling chocolate goody-yummies like green tea truffles and dessert wines [i went back for seconds, of course!].




with her boss

after all that, we went with two girls she works with to a wine bar on the LES where we had crazy cheeses and paninis and then to a brand-new japanese dessert bar [dessert bars are the new black, er, bars] and ate nuts desserts like tofu cheesecake and things with black sesame and some things that were good and some that were gross and some that made me gag. but i didn't show it. :)



terry and i are going to frankenmuth tomorrow for some simulacraic german decadence. all-you-can-eat chicken &tc., jacuzzi, five pools, largest xmas store!!! i can't wait to pronounce all the german words with a french accent. !