Cold and Windy New York City

New York City cold weather is very specific. Wind rushes down the avenues and blinding sunlight on one street gives way to deep shadows even on the brightest of days on another. Saturday was a day just like that. In typical fashion we spent the day darting from warm place to warm place with hot drinks and food.
Starting the day with hot tea at home with the Christmas lights to make it cozy.

On take one of leaving the apartment it was too cold to make it past the courtyard, so I turned right around to add more layers and tried again. The first stop was at the diner for eggs with coffee. We saw a bike I'd never seen before and Rich gave me a lesson in shaft driven bike mechanics using utensils and cheerful red mugs.

We took the subway and the coldest, windiest walk in all of Manhattan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art where I got reprimanded for taking this picture. I'm totally badass and take Christmas decorations very very seriously. We wandered from gallery to gallery looking at medieval drinking horns, animal door knockers and old baseball cards until late in the afternoon when it was too crowded to see anything.

After leaving the museum and 30 blocks downtown by subway, we arrived at Joe's Shanghai. We had been planning to go here for about 2 years and we finally made it in. I can't believe I put it off for so long. We started with beer, obviously.

And moved on to soup dumplings which are possibly the most fantastic phenomenal delicious thing to ever be cooked. Its a steamed dumpling with a meatball and soup inside of it. I dropped them into my spoon and broke open the dough to slurp out thick hot broth and to pick out a meatball with some chopsticks.

In the evening the wind was practically gone and being outside wasn't so unbearable. We walked around looking in store windows and past The Plaza (made famous by Home Alone 2 Lost in NY, and possibly other reasons but who knows...) and caught a train towards home.