30th May 2011

Mary up at 6am
Laura up at 10am
Fruit salad. Sussed out the washing machine. Found the iron.

First argument. Can't remember the details but it was about getting out the house. Minor trivialities.

We leave the house! Walk half a block. CRATER IN THE ROAD SWALLOWS MARY!!!!
Mary can't walk, it's not just the blisters but a kind lady asks Mary if she wants a bandaid :-)

Mary really actually can't walk!
Laura considers dropping her off at the retirement center so she can get a bit of respite. We hobble to the pharmacy. The consultants says she needs her feet up for 24 hours and to put her foot on ice. So we promptly head to a beer garden and experience our first Bloody Mary, which seems to be the Williamsburg drink of choice.

• 2 White Russians
• 2 Pints of beers  
• 2 Bloody Mary's
• 1 Watermelon and feta salad
• 1 Quinoa and wild rice salad

And here we are thinking about going to the cinema.

The waiter reminds us a less good looking Pete David, but we haven't heard him sing or play the guitar. 
He's probably better :-)

We hope Mary's fucking feet get better.
Laura considers chopping them off.

Pete David refuses to put Mary's cold compress into the freezer. Pete David is bad. 

Let's have a fag and hobble home.

By the way it's soooooooo fucking hot.
We're sat in the shade.

Mary's now spent the afternoon in bed with elevated foot, feeling sorry for herself. Thank god we brought the box of Brother Fox cds. It proves a good foot rest. They's good for something. 
Laura fucks off.

She posts the first story on the blog, gets dinner and come back to Mary sad in the face. THE PAUL SIMON GIG HAS SOLD OUT! OH DEAR.
We now feel really sorry for oursleves.
Not really - we're in New York.

We head out for some pain free fun, we thought, Pirates of the Caribbean in Downtown Brooklyn- excellante.
but......ouch! Are the American's deaf? Everything comes in supersize, including cinematic volume. We think they turned it up to 11.

Downtown Brooklyn is very different to Williamsburg. Huge buildings, government offices. It feels a little bit intimidating, but then it is 1 o'clock at night.

The film is ace.