First thing in the morning we went to Starbucks to check out the T-Mobile wireless Internet connection and get caffeinated. The wireless networking works great, and enabled me to work on GreenRonin.com every day–what a vacation! And there were yummy coffee drinks to be had there, of course. (Charbucks? Bah! It’s Cajun-style!)
Robert and Barb dropped Rona and me off at the Central Islip Long Island Railroad (LIRR) station. We paid $41 for two round-trip tickets into Penn Station. The train ride took about an hour and 10 minutes. From Penn Station we walked to Greenwich Village, which we hear is unheard of! Everybody takes the subway in the Big Apple. (More on that tomorrow.)
We followed Chris’s most excellent advice and went to Veselka in East Village for some yummy pirogi goodness. We got the dinner-sized pirogi order, which comes with 7 pirogi chosen from six different fillings. We got two cheese, two potato & cheese, two spinach & cheese, and one meat. We also got an order of potato pancakes, with apple sauce. This was the best place we ate while in New York. We decided this long before we had eaten at every place we ate at in New York, and it held true.
We started walking back toward Penn Station, and Rona realized that we were just a block away from The Compleat Strategist, which was on our list, so we went there. It was pretty cool. I wanted to see if they had Paul Randles‘ pirate board game, Pirate Cove (Piratenbucht), but no dice. Well, lots of dice. Just not that board game.
Once back at Penn Station we had a slice of cheese pizza at one of the many shops that adorn the subway level, which is down a bit from the Amtrak level. And it was good. It brought me back to my college days, eating slices at Sy’s Pizza in Eugene. Big slices so that if you get two slices you get two paper plates with a slice on each, and you shake out parmesan and red pepper and you have to fold the slice to eat it, and you taste the flour on the bottom first, but then you bite in and you get the explosion of sauce and cheese and toppings if you’re not a purist, and it’s perfectly chewy all the way to your fingers. Mmm…
Then it was down to the LIRR level (yes, the train is below the subway) to board the Ronkonkoma (ron KON kuh muh) non-express for the hour and twenty minute return trip to Central Islip (EYE slip). Robert and Barb had picked up Bonnie at the airport, and we all went back to the same diner. I had something breakfasty. Let’s see, what was it? I have no idea.
From there it was back to Mindy and Alan’s to crash. Zzzzzz…
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