Day #24- Friday

Friday morning was great- my sister Megan and her sister in law Lindsay came to stay with us for the weekend, so I went to meet them at the Mega Bus stop at 10:15. I was so excited to see them, and looking forward to our fun weekend ahead!

Megan and Lindsay

Me and Megan in front of the Flat Iron Building

We started off by going to Shake Shack. After all this blogging and raving on and on about how delicious the burgers are here, we had to take them here to try it out for themselves. As expected, the burgers did not disappoint!

Lindsay enjoying her burger!

After our fabulous lunch, we decided to take the Staten Island Ferry to look at the Statue of Liberty. You can ride the ferry to Staten Island and then back again, free! The views were great:

After the ferry, we went to the Financial District to walk around Wall Street.

Here is the giant Wall Street Bull

This was a sphere in the plaza of the World Trade Center Towers. It is put here as memorial.

After walking around for a while, Megan and Lindsay wanted to check out Century 21. After a bit of shopping, we went back to our end of town so the girls could check out the Chelsea Market.

Chelsea Market Hot Chocolate Bar

Bakery in the Market... how cute are these cupcakes!

After the Market, we walked back home to get ready for dinner. We had reservations at a place called L'Artusi. It was an Italian restaurant, and it was incredible! The food and the service were absolutely amazing. This was a small plates place, so we had fun ordering a bunch of small plates and sharing them. Here is what we got:

This was a crudo of escolar (raw fish) with a mixture of avocados, basil, and chiles. It was divine!

This was a fried egg on top of roasted mushrooms and ricotta salata. This was delish as well!

Megan and Lindsay each got this Chickories dish, which was a salad with parmasean, lemon, and anchovy dressing. Yum!

Megan got the gnocchi with tomato and basil. It was so good- you can't go wrong with a gnocchi dish!

Scott ordered the sweetbreads, which came with a raspberry compote. For those of you who haven't had sweetbreads, they are actually pretty good. The name is deceiving though- sweetbreads are actually fried glands of a veal calf. I know, more weird food for Scott. But they really are good- everyone tried them and seemed to like them ok.

We all also shared this heirloom tomato salad with watermelon. Mmmmm! This unusual pairing is totally fabulous! The tomatoes and the watermelon really compliment each other.

Lindsay had the Branzino with roasted lemon, olives and honey. It was light, buttery and delicious!

I got the ricotta ravioli, with housemade ricotta, black pepper, and pecorino. Oh my, this was sooooooooo good! I loved it!

Our waiter turned out to be from Floyd Knobs, Indiana, of all places! So we made friends with him as we were from Louisville. He brought us this delicious zucchini with garlic, basil, and chilies.... for free! What a great server! And, he brought us all a free half glass of wine to start out meal off! We loved him! We asked him to surprise us with whatever dessert he liked the best, and he brought out this panna cotta with vanilla bean.. it was fab!

After a wonderfully satisfying dinner, we went to Broadway to see Mary Poppins. We, as in us girls. Scott went to see Chicago, as he had no desire to see Mary Poppins.

The show was really cute, and pretty similar to the movie. Neither Megan nor Lindsay had seen a Broadway show before in NYC, so they both really liked it.

Afterwards, we walked around Times Square to admire all the lights...

Afterwards, we stopped in this little jazz bar to hear some live jazz music. The band was really, really good! We stayed for one set, then left for home. We had a great night out with the girls, and were so glad they could come to visit us in our "NYC home" :-)