Central Park, Nha Trang

After I started the day off with two hours at the laundromat (woo!), in the early afternoon, Suzy and I headed out for our big adventure of the day: Our first visit to Central Park!

We took the R train from Court & Montague, and traveled for about 30 minutes to the 5th Ave stop. As soon as we got out, we could see the trees towering over us, as well as the large, posh-looking apartment buildings that surround the park.

We walked in the park for about an hour, taking in sights like: some of the many ball fields; the 15-acre Sheep Meadow, which was full of sunbathers on towels and blankets; several carnival-like attractions for children with small rides; many face-painters and balloon-animal-makers; a little lake where people were rowing rowboats around, where we also saw some ducks and a swimming turtle; a large zoo (that we walked by but did not go into); and a huge number of people, a fair number of dogs, and lots of birds and squirrels.

Central park is really nice, and we'll be sure to go back again while the weather is still good, and bring our own blanket to lounge on. Maybe next time we'll get more than 1/4 of the way across it too...

After we got out of the park, we hopped back on the R, then got off at Union Square to go into the Virgin Megastore there so we could pick up the second season of The Wire. We also ended up getting the MST3K movie (I didn't know it was on DVD now!) and a copy of Watchmen for Suzy to read in advance of the movie.

We took the R again, getting off in Chinatown this time so we could go to Nha Trang, a Vietnamese restaurant, for some supper. We had two soups (basic chicken pho ga that was tasty, if plain, and a beef satee pho that was spicy and quite good) and a weird-but-good shrimp appetizer, along with a tasty porkchop dish on rice, and a soft shell crab dish that was really good. We took most of the two soups home with us after eating the rest.

It was fast, inexpensive, and really tasty. I didn't find the main dishes were quite as good those we've had from Lichee Nut in Brooklyn, but they were certainly good. The beef satee pho was my favourite though.