I'm having a grand time here. While my daughter was working i dropped my bag at the hotel, hit a luncheonette for breakfast and much coffee, and headed for the Strand bookstore, a grand old place with quite literally miles of books on three floors.
I picked up some good Gender Studies texts (trans-feminist theory) and a biography, then went out for coffee before meeting up with my daughter.
I connected with my daughter at the Staten Island ferry terminal in the Battery and we walked up to Eatily for a late lunch. Delicious pizza and salad!
After lunch we walked through the new mall on the south side of the World Trade Center Plaza, beneath and through the Oculus. What a strange cathedral to mass consumerism! Very odd place and experience to find attached to such a memorial.
We continued our walk up the west side park and with the drizzle eventually headed into the Village and caught a subway. She headed home, and I headed to my hotel room to collapse.
I met up Saturday with my daughter and her Significant Other in Brooklyn for brunch in a little French place by the Brooklyn Expo Center. In the Center was a vinyl records market, perhaps 100 vendors selling old records in various states. We browsed for a few hours, and her SO bought some nice old jazz disks.
More walking, an artists flea market, and eventually lunch of sorts at an ice cream place which was fun. I don't usually dine like this!
We headed back to their apartment to visit, with tea, cat playtime, and Jelly Roll Morton on the phonograph. Later my daughter and I walked and chatted for a while, seeing the sights of Brooklyn, until I returned to my hotel and she to her SO.
I did go out on my own later in the evening to get a large salad for dinner. [emoji4]. See, I can behave.
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