Why I love NYC part 27

So we've had a bit of a random night tonight. Let me run you through it blow by blow.


After some house cleaning we decided to head up for Friday night Ellos. Well that's pretty much what we do every Friday (Ellos not the cleaning). For the less knowledgable Ellos is our local burger joint and is a cross between McDonalds and your local fish and chip type burger. Of all the gin places in this town we always seem to end up there.


We both had a little sweet tooth going on after and went to stop at Maccas for a Sundae but I think we came across the only Maccas store in the entire US of A that did not sell Sundaes. It's almost as bad as the KFC on 14th st which does not sell the chips. We then ventured back home and busted a bottle of Veuve to celebrate a happy friday. Since polishing that off and watching a pretty average movie the sweet tooth came back and this time it had to be dealt with. 


It's at this point that I come to the punchline as to why I love NYC. It's 10pm at night and I want Cheesecake. I'm not talking frozen Sara Lee crap but proper calobusting ole New York Cheese Cake. Oh and did I mentioned I want it delivered. So a quick call to our local diner and I got two slices of delicious cheesecake delivered. 


Pop quiz. How many cities in the world can you order a couple of slices of Cheesecake at 10pm at night and get it delivered?

Taking Bids

Hours spent on this and I cannot even give it away! :-)

Turks and Lomo

As I sit here freezing my backside off thoughts of Turks come floating through my mind. Ahh bring on Jamaica in January.

View from our room

The hotel pool

Oh how I love the turquoise water

My Bond Girl

This is an unauthorized video of my gorgeous girlfriend down in Turks and Caicos. Don't tell her it's here and it will self destruct in 2 minutes.

Our Rather Large Christmas Tree

It's officially a monster. This thing is massive and I was convinced when we opened it we'd have a Griswold experience with a squirrel popping out of it. The thing weighs about 100 pounds but I think it's comes up pretty damn good. Thanks to Tracy again for a very good setup. I've put together a short video of a time lapse of the setup of it.

And now the finished product.....

Turks and Caicos

In an attempt to escape the ever decreasing temperatures of NYC, Tracy and I headed down to the Caribbean to a place called Turks and Caicos. I'd never heard of the place until I came over here but for all you geography nuts it's just below the Bahamas which is just below Florida.



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We'd booked this back in May and were quite excited to be getting away to some warm weather and a decent beach. We were not to be disappointed. 

Turks is an easy 3 hour flight from New York and we stayed at a pretty plush hotel called the Gansevoort which was located on Grace Bay. As soon as we walked in we were greeted by the pool and new we were going to be in for a good time.

I'd love to tell you more about the island but we didn't leave the hotel or beach in front of us for 5 days. It was simply sensational and by far the best beach we have been to so far. The sand was like talcum powder and the water a beautiful aqua blue. 

A typical day involved getting up and going and having breakfast by the beach. We'd then setup on some chairs on the beach and lounge around for a few hours. From there it was back to the pool and on the porch by 5pm for Chardy hour. 

We got back on Tuesday night to sub zero temperatures and pouring rain. It's inspired us to get a few more islands in before we leave this part of the world.

Dasha wanted to come away with us.

The lobby of the hotel

Afternoon pool time

Someone is enjoying the sun

The awful view from our room.

Grace Bay

Grace Bay

Grace Bay

Calm before the storm

This delicious meatfest from a neighboring hotel

Morning coffee and what a view

DashaKino

So here is my first Lomokino mini movie. For those of you who don't know what this is then a little explaining is in order. It's basically a camera which shoots old school movies on 35mm film. You twist a handle and it winds the film on and shoots around 144 frames on a 36 roll of film. This movie was of Dasha playing in Central Park.