This is a “hit and run” blog entry, limited by a necessity to be somewhere else, and also by the hostess eyeballing my booth as I languish in it nursing a steady stream of Diet Cokes in between blowing my nose. Yes, I still have that miserable cold.
The Tic Toc Diner
I’m at the Tic Toc diner at the corner of Eight and West 34th Streets, a bit of an institution among Westminster dog show regulars needing breakfast comfort food. The conversation around me is a blend of thick ‘New Yawk’ accents and out-of-towners discussing their dogs’ prospects come Monday. The weather, a big topic outside of my own bubble, never materialized to be the monster here in the city that it became for people north of here. It was certainly miserable here as it blew in: wet, windy, bitter and sloppy. For anyone with a cold, say, me, it wasn’t a good time to be outside, but I needed soup and since there wasn’t a mom around to bring it to me, I had to go find it. I struck gold at The Stout where I found a cozy booth next to a fireplace and spooned hot Roasted Tomato Soup down my throat.
Feeling better with some hot soup in my belly, I saw the humor in a bus load of tourists being deposited at Peep World.
New York can be a very expensive city in which to feed yourself, and I noticed that for what I paid for that morning’s breakfast, I could have bought the Statue of Liberty.
I hardly know what to say here, but some explanation is in order. Part of Westminster festivities include a doggie fashion show to raise money for charity – so that makes this dog’s dress okay. Any other time I would have thought, “Cotton? In THIS weather?”
The day before the weather came in, I visited the Chelsea Market – a very deadly place for shopaholics and anyone with a sweet tooth
Is it just me, or does anyone else see the irony of a store named the “Fat Witch” located so close to the store with those cakes?
The dog show will go on, and come Sunday night, I’ll be “going dark” until I come home next week. Before then, let’s see if I can’t get some more delicious pictures of the delicious, nutty, interesting and wonderful atmosphere leading up to Westminster.
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Fun! In a quick minute you’ve found images that do represent the oddball side of NYC…well done
Wish I were there to buy you a hot toddy for that cold. What an adventure it would be to locate just the right place for that!
I would have welcomed the nursing, Sarah. New York wasn’t the place to be on one’s own when not feeling well…..
I hope you had one of the Fat Witch brownies! They are wicked good!!
I’ll have to have a brownie the next time, Betsy, I had no appetite for anything other than hot soup or cold ice cream because of what turned out to be the flu, a virus which apparently has no freaking end to it (as I enter my 4th week with it).
You did a great job on Monday! We were reading the FB post while watching the judging. It was great “waving” to you too. Hope you got over the cold and enjoyed the time.
Awww, thanks, Jinnie. My “cold” turned out to be the flu, and I’m now entering my 4th week with it. It’s getting very very old.