Only in NY

Just a quickie I had to share.  The Monkey and I were walking the pup around our moderately busy city block yesterday, Monkey intermittently stopping to play with her new bubbles/ bubble wand along the way.   A woman stopped and struck up a convo w/ me about our somewhat ailing doggie, as the beautiful and fancily dressed little girl she was with - turned out to be her 7-yo niece - happily joined in Alana's game, jumping and popping the bubbles.  After a little chit-chat about dogs, kids, etc, the woman wrangled the girl and explained they were off to lunch at the Russian Tea Room.  "I'm from Russia!" the little girl piped in.