Brown and Bloggin It: Day #3- Part 1

I need to retract my earlier comment from my Day 1 post. I said that this blog vacation would not be as detailed as last summers, but that seems to not be exactly true. Since Day 1, I have discovered this awesome iPhone app called BlogPress which lets me blog on the go. This drastically decreases the blogging time it took last year, so it is much easier to blog as we do things. Thus, forget about short blogs- this will more than likely be a play by play all day long. Some of you may be groaning now- this is your chance to pull out of this reader commitment before you are too sucked in :)
Having said that, I'll break Day 3 into 2 segments, as I am documenting more, and this app doesn't seem to be able to handle very lengthy posts.
Part 1:
Friday began with a leisurely stroll a few blocks to get some breakfast.

We chose to go to Morandi, which is an Italian Cafe. (For any of you who read my NYC blog from last summer, this is the place we came to with Amy and Ernest and saw the celebrity stars from "Promises, Promises", Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes.)
We began the meal with coffee and lattes:

Chocolate brioche:

Look at that chocolate smear inside! Yeah buddy!
I had poached eggs with country bread and grilled tomatoes:

Scott had poached eggs over a bed of sunchokes, fava beans, and peas:

Our meals were very good, the only disappointment I had was that there was only one grilled tomato in my dish, where as the menu said "tomatoes", plural. The one I had was unbelievably delish, so one more would have been even better! Yes, I am a tomato freak- the more the better! Yum o!
After breakfast we walked over to the High Line, the once abandoned railway track that has now been converted to an elevated park spanning 18 or so city blocks. Section 2 has now been completed, so we walked around and took pictures. Here are some High Line shots:

This is Section 3 which has not been completed yet. It shows what a huge change this park is from the previous dilapidated condition.
At the base of the High Line is a picnic area in a parking lot where food trucks and beers on tap serve thirsty and hungry High Line walkers:

Even though we just at breakfast a couple hours ago, we had to get something from the Tiam Food Truck, since Food Trucks are all the rage right now. We split a Falafel pita with Harissa (spicy) sauce. In the immortal words of Cousin Eddie, "Clark, that is goo-ood!"

Action shots:

Scott summarized the situation with this comment: "that is exactly why NYC is so awesome; you can sit in a random parking lot and have the best damn falafel of your life."

Amen!

Afterwards, we walked 30 blocks uptown to visit one of our favorite NYC spots, Central Park. Coincidentally, 5 years ago today Scott proposed to me in this very park! It seemed only fitting to come back to where it all began!
"The Question" was asked right over there in one of those row boats...