The weekend before Christmas, we continued our thorough investigation of New York's sweets with some hot chocolate at the City Bakery. It was good, but you should really only ever drink an espresso-sized serving. It's incredibly rich! We felt a little queasy afterwards. (This did not, however, deter the two "real" Hohensees from making sure the gingerbread cookies at home had been properly baked.)
On Christmas Eve, we went to the Met ...
... and later joined our friends Sarah and Dylan for Christmas Eve mass at Grace Episcopal Church, where Sarah was singing. It was awesome, and there were candles. So Christmasy!
On Christmas day, Chance commenced the cooking of the Goose, which turned out very tasty:
But, sadly, quite fatty as well. Most of what you see here is actually just fat. There must have only been about 4 pounds of meat on the 13.5 pound bird ... next year we're definitely doing a ham!
Christmas dinner was yummy, though, and we were joined by numerous good friends. It was very cheery!
The next day, Elyse and I went to Coney Island to wander around.
It got a thumbs-up.
We wandered into the aquarium, just in time for the sea lion show ...
... and we saw the walruses. They are BIG, and I do mean big, as in bigger than polar bears! And they were swimming back and forth, zooming past the windows ... it was fun to watch them.
On Friday we took Elyse to the airport and saw her off ... it was so much fun having her, and we can't wait for her to visit us (hopefully) in the summer!!!
