This day I was to meet the small tour bus right off of Union Square, which had a green market that day. It was pouring down rain, but the plants and produce were still gorgeous. Sadly, I will forever remember Union Square as the place where a vendor let me stand under his tent while he waited for his co-workers to show up, and I gave the instructions to our vet to euthanize our dog Elmer, and then made funeral arrangements with the dogsitter and a friend who was willing to help. This had been going on all week. Elmer started having seizures the day after I left. I had been communicating with Jim all week, and the outcome was anticipated, so I wasn't a complete mess. I was happy to get on a bus with about ten other jovial people.
Because of the rain, in lieu of a walk in a park, we voted to instead stop at a Jacques Torres chocolate shop. It was beautiful with Easter goodies all over the place. Even the Peeps had berets! I had a spicy hot chocolate that was wonderful. I haven't tried to reproduce it, although of course I bought Jacques' chocolate cookbook, because the experimentation process would be a guaranteed ten pounds.
The rest of the tour was old-fashioned pizzerias and historic sites. One of the best features of the tour was the playing of movie clips set in Brooklyn that were played on the monitor as we
drove by the sites. Lots of fun, and it made me want to rent "Saturday Night Fever".
I just can't escape Elvis. One of the sites was the Army Deployment Center where Elvis shipped out.
On the way back to Manhattan we drove through some ethnic neighborhoods- Ukrainian, Russian, Greek. They were very interesting but I'm glad I wasn't walking through them.
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