10 Jan

Had virtually no voice at all when I woke up this morning, and had to communicate with a variety of squeaks. Felt much better after having a shower - the shower here is quite a force of nature. James said 'oh I bet that will only be a trickle' when we looked at it when we first got here, but was quite surprised by its ferocity! Anyway, the day proper started with coffee and breakfast in Cafe Reggio. More famous than 'ino, but not as nice, in my opinion. Still, the coffee was much needed after a night on the Lemsip...how very rock 'n' roll.

A few flakes of snow were starting to fall as we left to wander around SoHo for a little while. James bought some Levis (well, you kind of have to, don't you?) in the sale, and I picked up some moisturiser, having stupidly left mine at home. In this weather, it's definitely not a luxury! The snow was beginning to get heavier, so we decided to head into the Angelika for a movie, 'Doubt'. It was pretty good, as you can imagine from the cast (Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams), and the Angelika's always fun because you can hear and feel the subway rumbling beneath you while you watch the film.

We have dinner reservations for this evening, but were pretty hungry when we came out of the film, so we made a beeline for Peanut Butter & Co, where we ordered, on the advice of the reviews, 'The Elvis'. The 'Elvis' is a giant sandwich (do they make bigger bread here?!), filled with peanut butter, banana, honey and bacon. Good lord, it was good. No wonder Elvis turned into such a porker in his later years. They serve the sandwich with a few carrot sticks so that you can pretend you've eaten something healthy. Ha!

Luckily, our apartment was only a minute's walk away, so we managed to roll ourselves home through the snow, which, as I write, is quite the blizzard. The city views from our windows are almost totally obscured by it, and everything is looking pretty white outside. It's nice to look at it from the comfort of the heated apartment, but I'm not sure we'll brave the walk to Artisanal tonight, not with so many cabs around to tempt us...