This past weekend, we drove up to visit my sister, Sherry. Smart lady that she is, she just bought an apartment in New York City, the best place in the world. It has been 7 years since we moved away, but every time we come back, it feels as good as slipping into a pair of loose sweatpants after eating too much dinner. Even the smog smelled good. Ahhhh...
Sherry, Craig, Andrew, and I hit up some of our favorite haunts in the East Village and Union Square. We grabbed omelettes at a diner, loaded up on pastries at Veniero's, bought way too much smoked kielbasa from J. Bacynsky's butcher shop (location of the world's best kielbasa this side of Poland), and troubleshot a flat tire, which we discovered right before we were set to drive back to Pennsylvania.
Sherry also blessed Andrew with some truly knockout Chinese New Year gifts: a dragon marionette, a traditional Chinese drum toy, a hong bao with - what? only a weird piece of green paper in it?! - and a mandarin hat with a long braid on it, too small for Andrew's large noggin but just the right size for William's. I can't wait to try it out on him. The two-foot braid will balance out his baldy baby head with charming effect.
Xin nian kaui le!
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