Here we are in New York again on another food tour….. o happy day 
Will post pictures of our full tour at a later date, but I at least wanted to share one photo of my favorite (unexpected) stop of the day:
We didn’t even mean to go there! Good food finds us!! While waiting for our table at the Spotted Pig (which is amaaazing, hit me up for menu recommendations!), we were wandering aimlessly around Greenwich Village, just killing some time and browsing in shop windows. We strolled past a cheese shop named Murray’s where a large article plastered inside the shop window screamed BEST BREAKFAST SANDWICH!! A grainy photo of a bored-looking man was adorned with a bright red #1 stamp. BEST breakfast sandwich? Could it be?? Feeling a little bit like Will Ferrell in the movie Elf, we rushed in excitedly to find out for ourselves…. yessss, a pre-breakfast breakfast. And ohhhh glory of glories, we were not disappointed. Salted meat + funky cheese + runny yolk = perfection.
Ok ok one more picture from New York… if you don’t know why this one had me in stitches, then you and I clearly don’t hang out enough…
Anyhow, I will post the full picture gallery of our food tour later. These days we are really busy trying to get things ready for our honeymoon which we leave for in several days. Yay.
I’m really glad that we decided to take several months in between the wedding and the honeymoon. On the one hand, now that I’ve gone through the process I can absolutely understand wanting to go lie flat on a beach somewhere immediately. But on the other hand (my hand, I guess)… for Doug and me, we really needed the time to “finish” wedding-related tasks and get used to the fact that yes-we-are-MARRIED-omg … as of today, our gifts have all been catalogued and thank you notes sent, all of our vendors are completely paid up, our finances are in order, our bags are packed, our dog is safely stowed with the “grandparents”, and we are (sorta kinda) used to calling each other my wife and my husband. Ok it’s still a little strange. But I’m getting better at it.
The question we have been asked most often is “so how does it feel to be married??” Always enthusiastically asked and answered with some variation on “OH YOU KNOW IT’S THE SAME HAHAHA”…. I’ve given the question much thought in the last few weeks and find that that’s not a truthful answer. It’s not the same. It isn’t just a piece of paper or a big party or a metal band on my finger followed by a return to my previous life. Something is different now. The changes between us since the wedding have been subtle, small, hardly noticeable as far as our daily lives go and likely unnoticed by the world at large. But we aren’t just dating or living together any more, we are becoming a family and feeling that change as it’s occurring is the strangest and most wonderful thing. I’ll stop there — I’ve tried to explain it to myself and I really have a gift for making marriage sound like an acid trip. I guess it defies explanation. All I can say is that this goes beyond just love. This is just so much more.
Speaking of acid trips…. I asked Doug to pick up a small notebook for random notetaking needs on the honeymoon and he brought this home to me…
HMMMMMMM……. that makes twice now…
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