In my last week in New York I did...

Some stuff!

First, as y'all know, I got to spend some quality time with this cute cat. 

Then, on the 4th, we took the 7 train all the way to the end and got to eat delicious "Nouveau Chinese" (I read the term in a magazine) food. Spicy! And cheap!

We wandered around a food court after, and found this DELICIOUS Shanghai-style dessert place. Those are palm fruit (?), basil seeds, mango, bananas, and lychee nuts.

And we went visited Louis Armstrong's house in Queens! Which is open on the 4th because he told everyone that was his birthday (he didn't know when it actually was).

For our last patriotic event, we went to the Socrates Statue Park in Long Island City and watched the newscast of the fireworks on the Hudson projected onto a screen, with music over it. Yeah, it wasn't that great. But avoiding the crowds was nice.

On Saturday the 7th, we went to Fire Island for the second (and final) for me, and played frisbee in the 90+ degree weather.

Finally, on my last full day in NYC, we got ginormous shakes in Park Slope.

And now I am at the JetBlue terminal in JFK, waiting to board my flight. There was, of course, a very tearful goodbye with Ari a few hours ago. But with any luck, I'll be seeing him in Indonesia in like, 5 months. That's not so long, right??