here you see the view from room 1905 of the muse hotel in manhattan's theatre district. we took a weekend trip to celebrate truman capote's birthday and the completion of the knitting tarot decks (but not books!). we spent a lot of time in koreatown. to see more photos of that -- it's worthwhile -- check out our koreatown slideshow on flickr. also, the portions of the trip that might raise interest to those fiberminded readers of ours.... you know what to do.
we enjoyed our visit to the museum of natural history. how nice it was that, when we picked up ripley at her grand-pere's house, ben had someone to talk to excitedly about the "powers of ten" exhibit in all it's nerdy glory. (once i realized that, quite by coincidence, ben and my dad were reading the same book at the same time. it was a book about the golden ratio.)
we spent some time in the asian peoples gallery and were interested to find that the chinese -- like the koreans -- hold a special ceremony for their infants in which the baby chooses an item from a prescribed assortment on a tray, indicating in what field his profession will be when he is an adult. we had only heard about the korean tol ceremony, never the chinese one.
i myself enjoyed the vosges chocolate bars that we bought in the museum shop... do check the link. we had the naga and the black pearl flavors but god i am dying to try their sicilian sea salt chocolate, and the balsamic vinegar chocolate, and the absinthe...
of course, we also enjoyed some sushi at monster sushi. dragon roll, park avenue roll...
...did i mention that we actually used one of those "pedicabs" -- the little cart attached to a bicycling driver -- to get down fifth avenue? our pedicabbie was a sweetie. some of fifth ave. is distinctly downhill. 
this picture is for amy, the real corpse bride!!!!
this trip cheered up and chilled out a couple of really worn-out, weary, uptight people. you almost never hear me say this, but i was sorry to come home -- i wish we were still there!