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Thursday, March 31, 2005

  I heart NYC. ^____^ I especially heart K-- Bookstore (censored because I'm possessive like that) and LAN (not the computer term, the restaurant). Oh, it was heaven, pure heaven.

We saw two shows, Forbidden Broadway (very fun) and Spamalot (even more fun, of course). And the raving reviews of Spamalot are correct in their judgment--it was a great show. I'd try to explain it to you since tickets are hard to come by now, but I just can't. T_T It was beautiful. ...Except we got sucky balcony seats so we could barely see anything downstage. Oh well.

K-- is a wonderful place where the otaku in the know go to achieve their wildest dreams... Or at least it should be. Except then people would buy everything before I could get to it. I'm a greedy little bitch, jeez. But wow... It was big, and clean, and chock full of very organized Japanese books and manga, translated and import, and stationary on the second floor and art books and CDs toward the back. I could go on and on for days about how much I love that place, but... >_> We actually spent almost $300 there on just books and CDs. Lordy.

And LAN is a really great little restaurant kind of hidden in the less interesting part of New York that serves incredible shabu shabu (hot pot, sort of--I'll explain). Shabu shabu is where they bring you a pot of boiling water on a portable stove and you dip raw foods into it to cook them. We had *gasp* Kobe beef since we were splurging on everything on this trip (and don't be surprised if I end up living on ramen for the next few months...) and it was incredibly good. If you ever have the money or want to show off, Kobe beef is the way to go. That is some freaking good beef.

And we took the train there and back, so I should probably push Amtrak too. If you're going up the East coast, train is definitely the best way to go. Quicker then driving and less stressful, and much more comfortable than plane travel--and don't even think about the bus from DC. Even the cheap trains are quite nice. We had a peaceful journey there and back.

All in all, the days went by in a flash, like a dream, but they were loads of fun and very worth it. I didn't even miss home, since it felt like I'd hardly been away. The dogs apparently missed us though (ha ha!). I'm starting to write like a manga-ka in the side panel space...
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