20180525 NYC: Got up about 7:30, left here an hour later to walk to 44th and Lex to meet Molly Peterson, Jesse’s mate, for breakfast in Grand Central Station at the Great Northern Food Hall. She knows the chef here and he uses her product. The chef is a partner in the famous Danish restaurant, Noma. There is a set of wonderful takeout food, a breakfast sit-down restaurant where we ate, and a Michelin-starred fine-dining restaurant, Agern. Want to go back there either for typical Danish lunch or a great dinner.
Molly is vibrant and fun and full of energy much like Jesse is. Great visit. They are heading off to Provence for a week tomorrow! Spent as much time with her as we could before she had to go to a meeting nearby. Molly sent me a “to do” list for Iceland and will put us in touch with a well-known photographer/leader there as well. We left the station onto 42nd Street and walked uptown to the Walter Kerr Theatre so Marian could retrieve her Bruce Springsteen on Broadway ticket. Joy joy joy. Went back to hotel to freshen up.
We walked from the hotel down Seventh to 28th and then west to The High Line. Beautiful day to walk on The High Line. Sunny and warm (hot?). We headed in the downtown direction and walked all the way to the end. Met some nice folks from Texas on the way there and saw them again near the end of our walk. Got back onto the street and went into Chelsea Market and had a nice lunch at Sarabeth’s. Wandered through the market, got a gelato, and out onto the street for the walk back to the hotel.
At this point, we had walked over 16,000 steps and over 5 miles according to my Health app. Yesterday was a total of 12,300 steps, 4 miles, and only 8,500 steps and under 4 miles on the day we got here. So we spent the rest of the afternoon resting in our room, doing Internet and computer stuff, etc.
About 6:00, I left and walked down Broadway from 42nd to 20th and over a block to Gramercy Tavern for a delightful dinner with Chick, Dorothy, Michael, and Laura Bisberg. Three-course fixed-price meal with lots of choices for the courses. Good wine, of course. Great food an service. But the real treat was getting to know Laura and visiting with the family. Long dinner. 6:45-9:30. Chick dropped off Michael and Laura at Penn Station and me at 48th and Eighth, a half-block from the Kerr where Marian was seeing Bruce.
About 10:30, all emerged from the theatre. Marian was beaming from the experience. It was all she had hoped for. We walked down Broadway. Stopped in the Brooklyn Diner where Marian had matzah ball soup. Then back through the crowds to the hotel. After going to the room, I went downstairs to the lobby level to print out boarding passes for tomorrow, but found I could do it all on my iPhone and have the passes stored there. Back to the room to finish this log. Final step count according to my iPhone is 21,800, 7.4 miles. And to bed.
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