Friday in New York

My original plan for Friday was to go to the Central Park Zoo and then the Guggenheim. Well, while I was waiting at the airport, I picked up some fliers and got one for the Frick. I thought that looked interesting, and it was much closer to the zoo, so I decided I would go there. Then I woke up Friday and it was still just out of the single digits, and after walking all over on Thursday, I wasn't in the mood for walking around in the cold even more. I lounged around for a while and flipped through the channels. I stopped at Martha Stewart and was ecstatic when I saw Diana Ross as her guest. I started throwing on clothes with the intent of running down to Rockefeller Center hoping to get a glimpse of Miss Ross leaving the studio, when Martha mentioned something about Diana's new CD being perfect for the "upcoming Valentine's Day". Well, Valentine's Day was several weeks ago, the show obviously had been taped much earlier and they were finally just getting around to airing it weeks after Miss Ross left Rockefeller Center. So, deeply disppointed, I crawled back into bed and my companion called a few minutes later. He had finished taking the deposition he needed to and was done for the rest of the day. We decided that he'd meet me back at the hotel and we'd go for lunch at Cafe Sabarsky and then go to the Frick, and it was a great afternoon. When we got to the Neue Gallery, Sabarsky had a wait, so we ended up going to Cafe Fledermaus, but it was the exact same menu, just a more casual atmosphere. We had a great lunch and then caught the bus down Fifth Avenue and went to the Frick. I thought we'd be out of there in an hour, but we stayed for the rest of the afternoon and still didn't get to fully appreciate everything. We left about 4:15 and still had about 2 more rooms to go through and listen to the audio tour. We'll definitely be going back, it's a very cool museum. I stopped at the Rockefeller Banana Republic on the way, I had a gift certificate and wanted to use it in a city without sales tax, so I picked up a dress shirt and a cool T-Shirt with a New York logo/design on it (and I'll be talking more about that later). We quickly changed at the hotel and went to Aquavit for dinner. Again, it was a fantastic dinner, which is pretty much a given at Aquavit, and we went to Curtains.