New York City: Day One's and Two

Dinner at WD~50 was very inspired, tasty, original, and fun. We did the sampler menu and wine pairing which ended up being 12 courses, and I think 10 different wines (and the best sake Ethan had ever had). We went a little nuts on the way home and went into a 'closed' park, but it had the view of the century, a sort of courtyard view of these huge skyscrapers with the Chrysler building in the distance. We saw the Empire State Building on the flight in, but haven't been up it yet, and that night we ate at Big Nick's Burger Joint and Pizza Joint, which was a lot of fun. How we ate there after eating dinner an hour and a half before can only be explained by a tough, never-say-full willpower, and the fact we walked two miles after taking the wrong subway, ending up in Harlem (which was cool because we randomly found the Apollo Theater) and subwaying back the way we came.

Today we spend all day at the American Museum of Natural History and I saw so much stuff it's hard to recount it here, but we'll post more pics later. We're going to go and catch dinner and do Phantom of the Opera baby! :) More later.

Note: The top picture is Ethan meditating on the meaning of 60,000 year-old bison, and the second is one of our entrees: the pizza balls. They were awesome! :) Like liquid powder, with some kind of sauce keeping them together, and dried Shitake mushrooms to boot.