fifth day of rain

it drizzled all day. i went out to help ellen with her class for five year olds, and had to run upstairs as i had forgotten an umbrella and definitely needed it.

i stopped at a new matcha place on mulberry street on my way to meet greg who had been returning a router to verizon (they had sent us a new one) on delancey street.

i guess we couldn't resist stopping at lombardi's for pizza and a caesar salad for dinner . . and i guess i couldn't resist getting a vanilla italian soda.

( we have leftovers to take home for lunch and dinner tomorrow . . !)

we were here to celebrate my birthday in june . . it's getting dark much earlier now.

in soho again

today we went to lombardi's to celebrate my birthday a few days early since morgan is to fly back to london tomorrow. we hadn't been in many years and it was fun to be there, but we were surprised they were making such small pies (you can see how large they once were here). i think they had to downsize during covid, as the restaurant was half the size it used to be, and their large brick oven was no longer upstairs - all cooking was done in the basement. we had a great time, and everything was delicious . . 

morgan and i had italian sodas: raspberry and vanilla (with whipped cream!)

we all shared a caesar salad . . 

a clam pizza . . 

and two margherita pizzas.

afterwards, we began walking to houston street to the subway, but then realized it would be fun to have ice cream before everyone headed to their respective abodes . . 

(sant ambroeus gelateria on lafayette . . )

it was such a fun night . . i didn't want it to end.

evening adventure

i met greg at macnally's bookstore in soho this evening. he had an amazon gift card with which he wanted to buy some books, and he offered to get chanda and i a book each also. sweet, eh?

chanda chose to browse the travel section . .

greg likes to browse the new fiction table . .

afterwards we walked a few blocks south and west to . .

                                       lombardi's!!!

morgana did a "meet me at the corner" episode here a number of years ago (which, unfortunately, i cannot find online right now, however here is my blogpost about the shoot) (and you know what is so amazing!!?? that SIX - 2009!!!- years have passed since morgana did this shoot and we NEVER visited until tonight!!!!!!!!  i cannot type enough exclamation points to show my shock at this state of affairs! it just astounds me! because, and if you visit the link you will see, it honestly, honestly!!!! feels like just yesterday to me that we were there doing the shoot!!!!).

(okay, back to the present, 2015) we ordered a margarita pie and ate every piece . . 

   (my and chanda's book choices - what a statement of our mindset and interests these days).