Day 13 - New York City! & Erel & Christy's Variety Show

• sleep in
• cake for breakfast
• get ready for day, practice poetry in mirror while Jamie's in shower
• visit HDG Mansur (old office)
• walk across town to Rockefeller Center and Times Square (for Jamie's sake), take pix
• Christy eats chicken schwarma ('street meat')
• take train to West Village
• nap together by waterside

• Jamie eats Five Guys' burger & shares fries with Christy
• observe famous actor cross street and enter gelato place, can't identify
• arrive early to the Path Cafe
• catch up w/old friends who come for show
• PERFORM with Erel Pilo & other amazingly talented singers, poets & puppeteers! :)
• go out w/said singers, poets, puppeteers & Gary (beau of singer/puppeteer) for drinks with $ we made at dive bar (Jamie & Christa go home early first)
• try not to observe sad bartender girl dancing on bar in bra & shorts while praying she won't accidentally kick my head - she demandeth applause but crowd is not really into it
• Maxwell Berger, poet, allows me to escort him home to Brooklyn (for 'his safety')
• wherein I exit subway and walk two blocks to bed, and crash, finally, at 3 a.m.-ish

(1st photo below courtesy of Jessica Caplan; last photo below courtesy of Chris Glady)