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My exciting American jaunts!
Lines:
Frozen custard, ice cream, soft serve, and frozen yogurt can all be completely different things.
Also May, you HAVE to go here and have a canoli. Trust me. The gelato is also good.
valley_parade:
Mike's! Yes! Worth the ridiculous queues.
jwhouk:
Hopefully her voice survived the concert last night.
Lines:
Mike's has the best cannoli I've ever had. I think I had the Amaretto and Peanut Butter while Michael had the Oreo or Espresso and Chocolate Covered and we split a Chocolate Chip. (This was over the course of a few days, not one trip! :D) So. Freaking. Good.
Barmymoo:
I survived so far! Even managing to cope with the heat - it was about 88F today and I managed. I did have a minor meltdown yesterday after two services and a recital in cassocks and surplices (if anyone doesn't know what they are, it's basically what vicars wear - floor-length black coats with white robes over the top, on top of normal clothes) in a poorly-air conditioned St John the Divine. It was a pretty amazing place to sing but I just was feeling awful. But I got lots of sleep and felt a whole lot better today. NYC is awesome! We had the whole day off to look around, so we went up the Rockerfelle, on the Staten Island ferry, along the high line, round Central Park and all over the place. Lunch in a great restaurant in the Meatpacking district.
Boston was so gorgeous, and I met Leslie! She is even taller than I expected, and also excellent at advising me on purchasing cell phones, opening doors, using libraries etc. Turns out international travel makes me stupid. Sadly lack of internet means I didn't get to Mike's Pastry, but I have had some amazing food - last night's dinner at the italian restuarant oposite St John the Divine was the best pizza I have ever eaten.
Off to Pennsylvania tomorrow, which should be interesting. So far I've stayed with two host families - the first for two nights, and we spent a fair bit of time together, they were lovely. The second we were only there for one night, and only for maybe three hours awake, but I chatted to them before bed and they were really nice too in a different way. My "host family mate" (we're arranged by dietary requirements or something) is a girl I don't really get along with; she's basically the only person in the choir I find it hard to like, which is a pity. Hopefully we'll be changed up a bit for the second half of the trip.
I just checked my email and I've got the go-ahead to visit the prisons for my dissertation, so now I need to contact them directly and ask if I can come. I might need to wait until I'm in Indiana to do that, so that I can talk to Edith about how and when etc. But I'm excited!
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