First up, I had another dogsitting gig, this time in Manhattan. I stayed at a fancy building downtown near City Hall about a 10 minute walk from the Manhattan Chinatown.
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| Fancy and large apartment complex. I think there are close to 75 stories in this thing. |
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| View from the window, at 47 floors up. |
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| It was easy to get to Chinatown and eat this. Rice casserole with various Chinese sausage, and a pork patty, all mixed with a thick sweet soy. |
I also took a short trip out of town to Boston. It was nice to get out of town for a little while, and play at being a tourist.
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| A view of the Boston skyline, from the top of a hill in nearby Somerville. Looks a little puny next to New York! |
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| Visiting the Harvard campus. Here, enters lots of smart kids. |
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| Kicking it back in Harvard Yard. |
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| While meandering around the North End neighborhood of Boston, we stumbled on a store filled with patrons. Of course this meant I had to buy something! Turns out, Mike's Pastry is a pretty popular spot for classic Italian desserts. We tried an amaretto cannoli and a mini bavarian creme puff. Both were light and delicious. |
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| I also tried some ice cream from a local chain. This was their apple pie ice cream in a cup, topped with caramel sauce. I asked for a cone as well for some crunchy goodness. |
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| Looking up into one of the 6 towers that make up Boston's Holocaust Memorial. Each pane of glass is etched with the numbers of victims; each tower hold about 1 million names. |
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| I thought this wall in Cambridge was lovely! |
It's definitely been a busy couple of weeks, to kick of the start of Fall!
