billy elliot

today i left the kids at home in their beds and flew off to new york city to meet craig.  hopefully they will get up for church and remember that it's fast sunday.  i sorta just walked away from it all. 

i met craig at our hotel near times square, after i used my iphone to get walking directions from penn station.  we wandered down the street through an outdoor market where i bought some sunglasses and a beautiful necklace and then ended up at one of our favorite restaurants, la relais de venise.  we ate at this restaurant in paris.  it's really yummy.  now they have one in new york.  we had steak and fries (that's all they have on the menu).

while i was flying in today, craig bought me a ticket to see billy elliot.  he had already seen it, so he wandered around midtown while i enjoyed the play.  a neighbor boy was just cast as one of the billys, but unfortunately he wasn't performing tonight.