New York, New York

Well Mr. T and I finally made it to NYC while we during our tour of New England. We decided to stay on Staton Island and get tickets to a Broadway show, Wicked. We left on Friday and planned on staying until Monday.

After a grueling travel day, Mr. T and I decided to eat at Bonobo's in NYC. So we took the S.I Ferry over to Manhattan then boarded a train, then found Bonobo's (an all raw vegan fast food place). Anyway it seemed to hold promise. I decided on the nut pate sampler and Mr T had a nut patty over a bed of greens. My sampler was also over a bed of greens but it was not long until I was wishing that the greens to nut pate was reversed. Once back on SI, Mr T and I started to feel really ill. Fortunately nothing came "up" but lets just say our impression of Bonobo's is not good. We were disappointed to say the least.

Mr T went right to sleep when we finally got back to our hotel room after the Bonobo's experience. I however, was to nauseous to sleep so I watched the news. That is when I first heard that our show we came to see might be cancelled. Well I did not want to wake Mr T about this, but it sure made it more difficult for me to get to sleep that night. Fortunately, we will be getting a refund for our tickets!

So instead, we toured NYC. We went to the Rose Center for space and science, the metropolitan museum of art, the Guggenheim, and the Museum of Modern Art. We also went to Moo Shoes (a vegan shoe store) and picked up a book titled "A Vegan's guide to NYC 2008". Very valuable guide to have.

Since no Bway, we went and ate at Candle 79. Very nice ambiance and food, but not 20 bucks a plate nice. However I must recommend Angelicas. Food was just as good as Candle, but half the price! We tried to eat at Zen burger, but it was not open yet. Guess it helps to read the description in the book.... oops!

All in all it was a nice get away. Not very relaxing but definitely got my mind off the lab and other woes!

I packed green smoothies for Mr T and I along with salad for me with my beetnut dressing! Since it was sooooo cold out, we used our car as a fridge (too cheap to pay 15 bucks a day for a fridge in the hotel... probably would not be big enough to hold the volume of food!)

Orange Girl

At the lab they call me Orange Girl since my skin has an orange tint. This seems almost fitting since growing up I was called Pumpkin since I was born on Halloween. It is interesting how life can come to a full circle if you get what I mean. Needless to say, one of my favorite colors is orange or orange tinted things.




The day before my Bday, we went to Salem, MA -- home of the infamous witch trials in the 1600's. The town has definately played that claim to fame up! It was somewhat disturbing seeing the marketing and almost celebrating of the witch trials (a very horrible, horrible thing that happend to some very innocent people). However we must learn from our past to hopefully not repeat it. Posted above is our guide Herb, who gave us a candle lit tour of Salem (and told some haunting tales).
The Grasshopper restaurant is one of our favorite places to eat when we are around Boston. It is a wonderful vegan restaurant where one can closely eat ETL. My plate came loaded with Kale with some faux lobster. Awesome stuff!


Right around the corner is T.J. Scallewaggles, a vegan pizzeria and sub shop. We had to stop there and try some. Not ETL, but a definate treat.