I was so glad that Mum had been able to meet Fiona and Bob and really wanted her to meet Sybil too. So she came to New York for the day with Julia and Rose and Sybil’s sister Judy met us there too (she lives in Brooklyn so is not too far away). We headed down to Chinatown where we had planned to meet and the ladies had a look around the shops there while we waited.
And we had a Starbucks pitstop.
I know you might be thinking I should branch out from Starbucks but not every coffee shop does caramel lattes and the normal coffee here is kind of blah. Like the chocolate - very strong and bitter.
So anyway we had a lovely day wandering around Chinatown after a huge lunch at a restaurant that Sybil, Fiona and I had been to before. We were at a shop looking at scarves (well Sybil and Mum were) and inside was the cutest little girl. She must have been about two years old and was singing what sounded like “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”. It was hard to tell. Either she couldn’t talk very well because she was so little or she was singing it in Chinese. Either way Mum worked out the tune and started singing along with her and she just loved it. And then kept wanting it to do it over and over (as two year olds do) and we would clap at the end with her. It was sooooo cute! Check out the video - although you can’t hear her that well because we were all singing along and we kind of overpowered her a bit. And for some reason the camera stopped filming before the end but by the time I got around to videoing it (once I realised she wanted to sing it again and again) she had picked up some of the words. Smart little girl!
Although we had eaten heaps at lunch we finished off with coffee and canola in Little Italy.
Yum!
And we had a Starbucks pitstop.
I know you might be thinking I should branch out from Starbucks but not every coffee shop does caramel lattes and the normal coffee here is kind of blah. Like the chocolate - very strong and bitter.
So anyway we had a lovely day wandering around Chinatown after a huge lunch at a restaurant that Sybil, Fiona and I had been to before. We were at a shop looking at scarves (well Sybil and Mum were) and inside was the cutest little girl. She must have been about two years old and was singing what sounded like “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”. It was hard to tell. Either she couldn’t talk very well because she was so little or she was singing it in Chinese. Either way Mum worked out the tune and started singing along with her and she just loved it. And then kept wanting it to do it over and over (as two year olds do) and we would clap at the end with her. It was sooooo cute! Check out the video - although you can’t hear her that well because we were all singing along and we kind of overpowered her a bit. And for some reason the camera stopped filming before the end but by the time I got around to videoing it (once I realised she wanted to sing it again and again) she had picked up some of the words. Smart little girl!
Although we had eaten heaps at lunch we finished off with coffee and canola in Little Italy.
Yum!
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