Day 58: It's a Touristy Kind of a Day

Saturday morning weigh-in: NA

If you'd been paying attention you wouldn't have been expecting a weight update. Ain't nobody got time for that when you're away!

So I started the morning with a 

hotel coffee (1) 

Might as well, I paid for it. (While I'm at it, a plug for the hotel: the Affinia 50 on E 50th Street at 3rd Avenue. We (again) managed to pick a hotel which is undergoing a renovation, but it didn't affect our stay at all. Very friendly staff, and centrally located for much of what we wanted to do.) Then we headed over to the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square for the breakfast buffet. Funny, at the rest stop on the way to NYC I refused to pay $2 for a bottle of water from the vending machine... but $17 for the breakfast buffet? Sign me up! At least I ate something; the Australian dad next to me had a banana and a bowl of corn flakes — also $17. I went a bit further

orange juice (7 oz., and, disappointingly, in a plastic bottle)
scrambled eggs (about three)
home fries
sausage links (2)
white toast w/butter (2 slices)
coffee (1 cup)

Spent a lovely morning and part of the afternoon in Central Park. It's amazing how quiet it can be, right in the middle of the city. Eventually Katie, Andy, Aaron, and I headed over to Rockefeller Center, and bought tickets for the NBC Studio Tour. Had some time to kill, so we headed down to the ice rink, which in summer is converted to a beer garden-ish type place known as the Summer Garden & Bar. Who looks at prices at times like this? Three beers (Andy's still under-aged and merely watched) cost us $43. I should have brought Dave Ramsey along. At least it tasted good. And cold.

Sam Adams Lager (1 pint — although I think I paid for the whole keg)

So I'll go on record as recommending the NBC Studio Tour, but not the Summer Garden & Bar — unless you're just watching.

Dinner was really neat. We stopped in at the Pig & Whistle on 3rd Avenue. Where of course I had the

Shepherd's Pie
Smithwick's (1 pint)
coffee (1 cup — really good coffee)

And after a day of walking, we headed back to the Affinia. But... I hadn't had enough walking I guess, because after Katie and Aaron departed for the evening, I headed back to Times Square to do some people-watching. In the process, stopped in at Connolly's Pub on W 45th Street — voted (by someone) Best Irish Pub in New York — for 

one more Smithwick's (pint)

then headed back, calling it a night.