My very pretty german friend, who currently lives in berkeley came to visit me in NY on March 20th.
This was pretty cool, because I've never had anyone come visit me from anywhere before.
The first night he was here, went to Angelica kitchen, where the food was kind of eh. I honestly wouldn't recommend it. Nothing was exceptional or fascinating, and I found the dishes to be almost tasteless. There were no surprises, my mouth did not go on any rides. My tongue was bored.
The next day we went to the American Museum of Natural History! That was way cool. It is SOOO IMMENSE! I felt like we saw sooo much, and yet not nearly enough.
There were some special attractions going on that day, and we saw all of them. They weree...
- The Planetarium Show- Cosmic Collisions
- The Butterfly Conservatory
- Wild Ocean- (movie)
- Dinosaurs Alive- (movie)
I LOVE museums! Especially planetariums. Those are by far my favorite. When I was in San Francisco, I went to the Academy of Science, and their planetarium was simply amazing. It it presented in a dome, and everything felt so realistic to me. I remember being in there with my friend Jenna, just freaking out haha. We got "Shushed" a couple of times.
I cannot fathom how much time, work, research, and MONEY goes into making those things! Museums in general...wow. Every time I go to a museum, I have to wonder if I ever made the right decision not going into Anthropologie. When I was younger...all I ever wanted to do was travel to far away countries, get dirty, dig in dirt, and discover things like fossils, or plant trees, or pet dolphins. Haha! Everyone told me it was unrealistic...I suppose I forgot about that dream after a while. That whole lifestyle still appears to me so much though. I love an adventure, especially if it involves other countries. Ah well, I guess it's too late to be thinking of that now.
So anyways....afterward, we went to a restaurant called "Raw Soul". To be honest, it really didn't impress me. Perhaps it was just the dish I got, yet I cannot conclude it was a coincidence that every single thing that was ordered happened to have sucked all around. To make it worse, I believe the food there made me tummy ill for a while afterward.
I ordered their "Soul Bowl", which consists of three sides of your choice, and saurkraut. The three sides I chose were;
- Nut Meat,
- Jicama Sticks, and t
- The Au- something or other, I can't remember the name. It was basically just raw veggies heavily drowned in this sauce which smelled like cheese...and it tasted pretty OK at first, but eventually made me feel kind of sick.
I have yet to go into a restaurant and taste a smoothie that tastes better than something I have made. Seriously! I am always SO disappointed when I go into a raw/ vegan restaurant, and order a smoothie. When I order a smoothie, I except a good smoothie, damnit! But they almost always taste like crap. These restaurants are serving REALLY poor excuses for smoothies/ milkshakes. I'm deeply sorry to say, but it is true.
Smoothies are kind of my thing. I thoroughly enjoy making them, and they always turn out really yumm. So maybe I'm harsh, maybe I expect more, and I offer no apologies. When a restaurant is charging me anywhere from 8-10 dollars for a smoothie, I imagine it better be WAY more exquisite than mine. So far, no luck, as they never are.
So we were both pretty exhausted the next day, we hadn't been getting much sleep, and the city can be really exhausting when you're not used to being there everyday anymore. We ended up just staying in at my house....did stuff, and watched movies. It was nice. I thoroughly enjoy just chilling out, being that I'm a grandma and whatnot. ----^^^^^
I took some videos of the conservatory of BUTTERFLIES on my blackberry. In the video, as you may notice, I accidentally call it the " Conservatory of Flowers" because one time, this very same
GERMAN friend
and I went to the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco, and that got me all messed up. Hey, at least I didn't call it the conservatory of Acting.
Video quality of the phone isn't that great, obviously, but try focussing your attention attention, and you might be able to see the hundreds of butterflies flying around. It was amazing!
Enjoy :)
PS- I thought it might be useful to mention that my german friend, is extremely anti- german everything, and is opposite of fond of his mother country. Therefore, I found it only appropriate to germanize this blog as much as I could, in his honour :)
PPS- In case anyone is confused by the videos....I call him " Cheky" because when I first met him, I couldn't remember his name for the life of me, no matter how often he told me. Therefore, I concluded that " Christoph" sounds an awful lot like " Chekov" and just started calling him that instead. Chekov turned into "Cheky" which turned into "Chek Chek".... you get the point.
PPPS- To be perfectly honest though, the very first time I met my friend Christoph here, I was completely naked in the basement of the clothing optional housing co-op I was staying at.....doing laundry. Now that's a story to tell the grandkids.
CHRISTOPH <3
MOTHERLAND
Butterflies TAKE 1
Butterflies TAKE 2
Photos by: Google Images
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