It’s Holly

I just woke up today, Saturday morning, from the best sleep ever. Probably because in the 43 hour span since Thursday morning at 6AM, I’d had about 45 minutes of sleep. We go hard, son.

I couldn’t sleep on the plane. I usually never can. I even took a Unisom! It was more like Uni-wake, because I was definitely not feeling the REM cycle by any means. It was sort of a weird, hazy half-sleep half-awake state of semi-consciousness. Kinda like when I’m at work.

We landed and slept in the cab on the way to the hotel. Jonathan had an appointment lined up for later in the afternoon, so we went to say hello to my co-workers over at Union Square.

Jono on the roof of our Union Square Office
He went to check into the hotel, and I stayed with them and had lunch at Havana Central - which is like what Portos would be if there were no bakery and only sandwiches. Portos is still better, so I won’t go into detail about how it was. It was “aiight”.

I finally made it back over to the hotel, and slept for about 15 minutes. Lucky for us, our hotel room faces street side, so we know when there’s an idiot holding up traffic for a taxi that’s going to beep his horn until he gets his way. Yay New York!

We got dressed in our fancy clothes, then headed down to Picholine - my first Michelin Star rated restaurant - two at that! Dinner was ridiculously amazing:

First Course - Holly: Foie Gras Terrine, Jonathan: Black Truffle Risotto
Winner - Jonathan (due to appearance of bacon in risotto)

Second Course - Holly: Chicken “Kiev” with Liquid Foie Gras, Jonathan: Lamb and Sweet Garlic Flan
Winner - Holly

Third Course - Holly: Liquid Chocolate Tart with Earl Gray Ice Cream, Jonathan: Chocolate Soufflé
Winner - Jonathan

So, it looks like Jonathan won this round of “pick the best dish in the restaurant”, but, since I did actually PICK the restaurant, and he had no clue what it was… technically it can be called a tie.

With our bellies stuffed and full of foie gras goodness, we were off to Times Square (ugh) to see Legally Blonde the Musical (yay!). It’s HILARIOUS! Any musical that can start off with an opening number called “Ohmigod You Guys!” is a winner in my book.

The stage for Legally Blonde
After that, we caught the NR to the East Side (ugh) to meet up with Jonathan’s aunt and uncle (yay!) at the St. Regis. Turns out their bar was pretty packed, so we headed across the street and had a drink at The Penninsula instead.

Jonathan’s nice and buzzed, and I have a headache that started when we got off of the plane. I just wanted to sleep….

So we did, and now we’re ready to start the madness all over again - starting with breakfast at Norma’s at Le Parker Meridian.