I can hardly believe in 30 days I will be jetting off to the Big Apple for the long Memorial Day weekend...where does the time go? It seems like I just bought the plane ticket!
The planning and research portion of this trip is "in the bag". Just the other day I made car service reservations for pick-up and drop off at LaGuardia airport. For once I'm actually glad the airline changed the flight times. Now, instead of arriving in NYC at 5pm on a Friday before a long holiday weekend (can you say traffic nightmare! What was I thinking when I booked the original time!) the arrival time is now 2pm. Still, I'm prepared for lots of Friday traffic, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed it won't be too bad!
I've also made dinner reservations for Friday night at Lupa in Greenwich Village. This is a Mario Batalli owned placed and I've read some stellar reviews. I tried to originally make the reservation on-line via Opentable.com but my only options there were 5:30pm or 11pm....hmmmm...
So I called the restaurant directly, even at a month out, the only time choices I had were 5:30pm or 9:30pm at least that's better than 11pm!. Airing on the side of caution, in the event the flight is delayed, I went with the 9:30pm reservation. Hey, it's a Roman Trattoria after all, and 9:30pm dinner is the true Italian way!
The last thing on my "do before I leave" list is to make dinner reservation for Sunday night. The plan is to have dinner at Artisanal, which is a French Bistro/Fromaegerie in the Murray Hill area. You can clearly say I'm getting a taste of all my international destinations for the year in NYC!
Saturday night is a "play it by ear" dinning option since we'll be going to a matinee and an evening show, so we'll just pop into someplace (that I'm sure I've got on my list!) between 4pm-7pm. And I can't help but think about doing an after show dessert somewhere...my sweet tooth is always ready for action!
Now I need to start getting into "packing mode"...I haven't even thought about what to take with me...sounds like I may be writing out a packing list this weekend....I lead such an exciting life!
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