- IMG 5008
Bryan and Jeff. - IMG 5009
Trees. - IMG 5011
Wednesday: breakfast at Tom's Diner (from the song! you know, do do do do, do do do do--that one!), then seeing Jeff off. - IMG 5012
Leslie's feet having betrayed her, she and Bryan go shopping for some pricey New Balance sneakers. Here's Bryan on Macy's wooden escalator. - IMG 5015
Now in magic shoes, Leslie is up for another museum. They pay $1 for the Natural History museum. - IMG 5016
What?! - IMG 5018
Bryan wants to look at rocks. - IMG 5019
Leslie photographs weird animal miniatures carved from semiprecious gems, thinking of Cameron and childhood. - IMG 5020
Bunny! - IMG 5022
Leslie and her birthstone. - IMG 5023
Bryan and sea life. - IMG 5027
Gender-swapping fish. - IMG 5028
Leslie as extinct mammal. - IMG 5030
Horse evolution! For Mom. - IMG 5032
Giant-ass moose thing. - IMG 5035
Bryan meets mammoth. - IMG 5037
Bryan with tiny arms! This is one of my favorites. - IMG 5038
View of a small creature about to be stepped on. - IMG 5039
Gates--in the wind! - IMG 5040
I tried so hard to stop taking these pictures. I really did. It's just--the gates were everywhere. - IMG 5043
Thursday: the day of far fewer pictures. Leslie and Bryan try to hit all the neighborhoods they haven't seen, stopping every 10-15 blocks for tea and warmth. Grand Central Station, down 5th avenue (past library), to Union Square. Then, subway to Chinatown, walk north through Little Italy, shop, drink tea, begin to get snowed on in Soho. Footsore, cold, and hungry, they actually GO INSIDE the crepes restaurant in Greenwich Village (this may be of interest only to Clare). They stay there for almost two hours, warm and full of crepe. - IMG 5045
After failing to get rush tickets to Avenue Q, they return to McSorley's to be abused by an Irish waiter. They note with amusement that "the cheese plate" is some slices of cheddar, raw onion, and a sleeve of saltines. Then they meet George for $1 stand-up (worth every penny) at the Telephone Bar in the East Village. Then George and Bryan head home while Leslie meets Danny. Here he is in his workplace. He's the volunteer coordinator at a nonprofit bookstore/cafe in Soho that raises money for homeless AIDS victims. - IMG 5048
L&D head back to Brooklyn for a benefit party. "What does this party benefit?" it occurs to Leslie to ask about halfway through the evening. "Someone's sexual reassignment surgery." As it turns out. Awesome. - IMG 5049
After dancing among the lesbians like absolute freaks for an hour or so, Leslie and Danny make the somewhat questionable decision to walk home in the snow. - IMG 5050
Danny. - IMG 5054
After breakfast on Friday, Leslie and Bryan head to Harlem, so that Leslie can see at least one new thing in New York. Completely camera-weary, they take not a single picture. But Leslie can't resist some shots from the plane window as they leave from La Guardia in the afternoon. - IMG 5055
Bryan and Manhattan. - IMG 5056
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Bryan and bridge to New Jersey. - IMG 5060
Goodbye!