This has been an incredible experience, filled with good friends, fantastic food and lots of great wine! I'll write more soon when I've gotten my notes together and can write about everything (and post pictures to go along with it), but I can tell you why we are standing next to a giant pig...
Last month sometime I was reading some food blog about a rice and cheese ball (ahem, fried rice and cheese ball). The photo made it look so good and the post from whatever blog I'd found my way to had been all about these hipster kids who lived in Manhattan and walked across the bridge and found this place called Espositos... and that's where they got the rice balls. Turns out Espositos is only about 5 blocks from Gravity's house, so on Monday I ran in and got a rice and cheese ball. Sadly, I forgot that the blog had advised that you ask them to heat it up, so mine was cold and not nearly as tasty as the picture led me to believe. BUT the place was really cool - smallish, a LOT of meat and just really New York. Plus I just really thought it was cool that I could read about someplace and get there.
We ended up also get some soprasata (spelling???) there which was so yummy that we're bringing a roll of it home for Jimmy and Abby.
In our last few hours here (car comes at 2:30 to take us away from the magic-land known to us as Carroll Gardens), we'll take the last of Ben's stuff to the pack & ship, get a little gifty for Blue (who's probably reading this, so I'm not saying what she's getting!), and tool around Smith Street.
I've loved every single minute of being here. It's been a magical experience - every day different, every day fun and relaxing and perfect. And so much like the playa that I know deep-down, if we actually ever moved here, it would never be like it was this week. This week has been a week of ideals - every night spent dining out (or in) with good friends, every day spent walking somewhat aimlessly from place to place. Not a real life. But a really wonderful vacation from real life.
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