Aww, shucks. Thanks to all who took days off from work and rearranged schedules to host our Nilly-girl.

Thanks to all contributed so I could spend time with a friend (and get a bit more over my fear of having people over to my embarassingly teeny apartment).

When I talked to Nilly yesterday, she was very, very certain that she would come back again, one day. She loved us, and loved America so very much.

She said about New York: It never. stops. moving. Everything is alive! You stand still on the sidewalk and can feel the subway rushing underneath. Everything always moving. Except the traffic near the convention.

So in the competition between who was gonna show Nilly the best time ever, The City of New York kicked all our asses.

The Australian Catalog has Tim Tams, including limited run fudgy ones.

Yes, but not Tia Maria ones. Getting ordinary Tams is easy. (You can get the liqueur bikkies shipped from Australia, but the cost is higher, of course.)

The Australian Catalog has Tim Tams, including limited run fudgy ones.

Yes, but not Tia Maria ones. Getting ordinary Tams is easy. (You can get the liqueur bikkies shipped from Australia, but the cost is higher, of course.)

Yes, but askye gave me a link, where you just made me drool more for Tim Tams.

At one point I was getting catalogs like crazy and the Australian Catalog was one of them. Every time I got it I would sit and drool and then not end up getting anything.

Ohhh! They have a Billy Tea mug.

Kahlua Slice

Tia Maria

She preferred New York?

Huh. I had all my money on her falling madly in love with Boston, above all the other cities. She has a deep love of antiquity in her cities, and of all the ones she visited, Boston wears its history most visibly.

Huh. (Scratching head)

I had all my money on her falling madly in love with Boston, above all the other cities. She has a deep love of antiquity in her cities, and of all the ones she visited, Boston wears its history most visibly.

Could have something to do with the fact that she was here midweek and didn't get a chance to see all that much. Her only real chance to see Boston's "history" sections was the walk in the Public Gardens, I think.

Well, or the fact that Boston goes out of its way to make itself as inaccessible as possible.

I think NY wears its history much more visibly than Boston. Boston has plenty of historical sections, but also plenty of very modern sections. NY, in my view, has much more history mixed into the places that people ordinarily go in the course of a day. One thing that Nilly commented on to me was that, in most of the other cities, each neighborhood and each block had a specific look, while in NY, you never knew what the next building you saw might be. (Nilly, sorry if I'm incorrectly paraphrasing.)

1. Thanks for sharing the schmoop with me, lovelies. I didn't know allergies were so damned contagious.

2. Deb, I'm sorry I, and therefore others, mistakenly blamed you for my laryngitis. I had seen you post that you'd lost your voice after the Nilly-Q, and so I assumed you were probably the source. Consider yourself duly exonerated. Considering the fact I was on four planes and five airports (yes, the math works out, really) in the space of four days, it's no wonder I picked something up. It's getting better slowly, thank goodness.

3. Next time Nilly comes out, I hope we get a chance to take her to Mystic Seaport and Sturbridge Village! I think she would love them both.

I had all my money on her falling madly in love with Boston, above all the other cities. She has a deep love of antiquity in her cities, and of all the ones she visited, Boston wears its history most visibly.

As Emily notes, she only got to spend a day in Boston itself, and half of that was looking at Hobbity stuff in the MoS. We did walk some of the Freedom Trail, and visited Bunker Hill, but we didn't have a whole lot of time.