The Feast of San Gennaro

Terry manages to get home early on Friday so we head off to meet Hannah.  Hannah finishes school early so instead of her waiting at the school for us we decide to meet in Little Italy.  I want to check it out today as the Feast of San Gennaro is being celebrated this week.  My "New York Book" says this is the time to visit Little Italy.  It is a huge festival with extra food vendors down the middle of the street and lots of fun and games for the whole family.

We have a lovely lunch in one of the many Italian restaurants.  We think of Pat Walley as we know this is one of her favorite places in New York.  We think of Tony Naples, my friend Peggy's husband as San Gennaro is the patron saint of Naples,  I just learned this today.

We visit the church which has a Shrine to San Gennaro.  The church is the Church of the Most Precious Blood.  It is small but very beautiful.

After lunch, Hannah and I head off to Canal Street which runs along the bottom of Little Italy.  Terry can't take it,  so he goes off to get a hair cut and a walk down to Ground Zero.  We meet up an hour later.  We buy a couple of little things on Canal Street, nothing much.  We are hounded by vendors wanting to sell us "Chanel, Coach, Rolex and any other name you can think of.  We resist.

We decide to walk Hannah home before taking the subway back to our place.  On our walk up to Houston this is what we find.

I'm not sure if this is art or someone with too much time on their hands.

We pop into Whole Foods and help Hannah with her groceries.  This is one of the advantages of having your parents in the same city.  When we get to her apartment we find Simone baking cookies.  We are very impressed with what these girls can accomplish in their tiny kitchen.  Simone tells us this has become a Friday tradition in their apartment.  As I write this I realize I should have taken a photo of that - maybe next Friday.

Till next time.