- IMG 5060
Goodbye! - IMG 5057
Bryan and bridge to New Jersey. - IMG 5028
Leslie as extinct mammal. - IMG 5037
Bryan with tiny arms! This is one of my favorites. - IMG 4966
While they are in theaters, the snow begins to fall. Pictured: Danny in Times Square. - IMG 5003
At last! Leslie returns to Crepe To Go. She cannot resist eating while Bryan orders. - IMG 4960
Ice skating rink and Gates. (No, we never went ice skating. Probably a combination of the expense and Leslie's strained foot tendon.) - IMG 4968
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Bryan and Manhattan. - IMG 4962
Dog-in-a-handbag sighting, the first. - IMG 4965
Leslie and Bryan separate. Bryan goes with boys to UCB theater for fabulous improv. Leslie meets Danny and friend for a mediocre play about family and shit. - IMG 5056
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Crepes in the park. - 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 4989
Semiscary night vision shot of Bryan and Jeff in the unlabeled, underground sake bar. Jeff eats udon; Bryan yellowtail sashimi. - 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. - ny pic
whole group at mcsorley's - 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 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 4964
Night falls. Bryan is overwhelmed by Times Square. - IMG 5009
Trees. - IMG 5001
More gates! This time, in the snow. - IMG 4974
The travellers reunite and head home in the snow. - 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 4983
After much unphotographed East Village touring with Jeff and Doug, Leslie takes a picture of a random building just because it has the word "Fischer" on it. - IMG 5002
Bryan with Japanese warrior masks. - IMG 5000
Tuesday comes. Doug leaves. Bryan and Leslie brave the Metropolitan. - IMG 4972
Leslie in midtown snow, after piano/cabaret bar. - 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 4982
Jeff in the park.