The last days of socializing

I find it so interesting that suddenly my pictures seem to be posting vertically. So many people have trouble posting on the site and I can offer no advice because I am just as clueless!

As promised, I wanted to do justice to the last people saw before I left New York. Unfortunately, I seem incapable of ever getting a shot of me and my cousin Nathaniel together. I wish I could say it is the result of collusion between me and his girlfriend Elissa -- because he is just too handsome to let the world know. But it is just my lame-o forgetting, and frankly, and his ever-interesting topics of conversation that make me forget to take photos.

BUT -- Here you have my cousin Betsy Brock and her boyfried Chris with me and David. Betsy and Chris prepared a very special meal for us. Chris owns a restaurant, Col Legno (Italian, despite the fact that he grew up on small greek island until his was 8 years old), on 9th avenue in the East Village (okay, I could be wrong. Soho? I don't know the neighborhoods of NYC). At any rate -- Betsy went to Whole Foods and bought organic spinach and fabulous fish. And Chris cooked it up in Col Legno's open kitchen! It was such a treat -- spoiling us entirely! What's more the entire Brock family gave me a very generous gift card to Whole Foods to indulge my newly obsessive organic tendencies (Betsy, her mother Ruthie, her sister-in-law Angela and children and sister Laurie, husband Bill and kids)! That was a fabulous idea! Thank you Brocks and Fisks!

And you have our good friend Cecilia Mandrile (Argentinian but a women of the world) who just happened to be in town for some lectures -- from, of all places, Jeddah, where she is teaching information techonoloy at the moment (I am hugely oversimplifying what she teaches). David met Cecilia in Amman and I was lucky enough to get to know her before she left Amman. Cecilia's real calling is as a very successful artist, but one has to do something with a PhD! Like I mentioned before, I couldn't make lunch but Cecilia stopped by for an hour to give me a hug.