My Sidekick hasn't been syncing properly with the mail server all weekend, so hopefully this e-mail will post properly via the T-mobile web interface.

Some of the photos from the last post were of dinner at one of our favorite restaurants in NYC, Pasha at 70 W 71st St. Cuisine is Turkish.

1) The Franklin Hotel at 164 E 87th St was where we stayed. It's a well appointed little hotel with a very friendly staff, but too small for my taste. The rooms were tiny, with no fridge or ice machine out in the hall.

2-3) For breakfast, we walked to the Barking Dog luncheonette at 1678 3rd Ave @ 94th.

4) Walking down the Upper East Side after breakfast, most of the museums weren't open yet. We eventually got into the Guggenheim gift shop where we picked up a Frank Lloyd Wright candle, and optical illusion coaster.

5) Cici burned off a lot of energy at the MET's playground by Central Park. She had her first experience chasing city pidgeons and completely enjoyed it.

6-7) We arrived via taxi at the Arclight Theater, and off-broadway theater at 152 W 71st St, to catch the 1pm show of our friend Chris Major's panto-style production of Jack in the Beanstalk. We actually saw the second half of the 5pm show yesterday because we got caught in traffic and arrived late. Today, we enjoyed all 1h 45m of the light-hearted production.

8) Heading out of the city, we discovered that our transmission was having trouble in the middle gears. After a 5-hour drive, dropping Amy's sister off in Baltimore along the way, we made it home OK. But the car goes in the shop tomorrow.

I'll post some photos tomorrow on my Flickr stream.

- mike lee - wheaton, md