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The travel section of Mobile Spinach is killing it…everywhere except for New York. Sad I know but we are trying! No one wants to come here when the weather report is negative digits and the charm of a snowy Christmas and NYE has turned to a lack-luster slushed out January.

Of course the San Francisco Mobile Spinach Crew has tons of hotels on their roster so they better show us a good time when we hit up the Left Coast:

• Clift Hotel offers 20% discount on best available rate (black out dates Dec 31, Jan 10-13).

• Hotel Nikko offers free drink with purchase of appetizer in Anzu restaurant-enjoy the scene

• Open Top Sightseeing San Francisco offers discount tickets.

• Personality Hotels offer 20% discount on best available rate + shopping discounts, discounted valet parking only $25.00.

We will be dressed to the nines sipping Stoli at our friends Soho loft come tomorrow night. We’ve arranged the car, got the overcoats back from the dry cleaners and been assured that we need not bring a single item to this black tie event amongst friends. The loft has White Oak floors with Baccarat crystal draping from every precipice.

Of course there is very little Mobile Spinach angle when it comes to this event but we always find a way to intertwine our precious little Mobile Spinach (No kids yet!) around our busy lives. The dry cleaners we use we’ve heard is one of the best in the city. Opus One Pinot stains be damned! They can get them out and we plan on letting the entire Mobile Spinach community in Manhattan in on our little secret. Keep up with us so we can let you in on our secret cleaners!

Check out Amity Hall (www.amityhallnyc.com) before it gets over crowded. The seemingly underground space is void of windows but instead has great plasmas for watching a game from one of the family style wooden tables that scream out for rowdy booze swilling, 40-beer-fun…no 30-beer-fun….40-beer-fun.

Being that it’s Christmas time in NYC we are definitely getting all dressed up and taking in a show, a classic not East Village show. Carnegie Hall (www.carnegiehall.org) just happens to be a Mobile Spinach customer and their line up for this holiday season is fantastic. Take a look at their calendar: www.carnegiehall.org/SiteCode/Events/MonthCalendar.aspx

And here is the deal any Mobile Spinach member can utilize for a show!

Carnegie Hall offers $5-$25 tickets just for Mobile Spinach members.

This is a price we can’t afford to miss out on.

After we stuff ourselves with friends at our NYC Thanksgiving party we’ll be heading to San Francisco for a little In-Law action during Christmas. Thank the lord the Tastemakers in San Francisco are doing their jobs. Now we can check into a hotel for at least a couple nights of alone time. Check out some of these deals:

• Casa Luna SF offers 15% discount on any vacation rental apartment for family members visiting SF

• Open Top Sightseeing San Francisco offers $5.00 off any adult ticket, or $2.00 off any child ticket. Not valid with any other offer.

• Orchard Garden Hotel offers 15% discount on our best daily published rate.

• Parc 55 Hotel San Francisco offers 30% off your stay.

• Personality Hotels on Union Square offers 20% off.

• San Francisco & Sausalito Electric Tour Company - Segway Tours offers $5.00 off guided San Francisco segway or electric bike tours - Mon-Thurs, morning departures only. Advance reservations required.

• Sheraton Fisherman's Wharf offers 25% discount on best available rates, from $89 per night.

• SW Hotel offers 15% discount on rates. Must call (415) 362-2999.

• The St. Regis Hotel San Francisco offers 15% discount on rates.

• The Suites at Fisherman's Wharf offers complimentary parking with your stay.

• Washington Square Inn offers 25% discount on 3 days or more (Sunday through Thursday).

• Hotel Tomo offers free overnight parking, complimentary breakfast for two, exclusive discounts at Japantown and Fillmore Street Stores and Restaurants. Rate - $109.00

• Hotel Kabuki, a Joie de Vivre hotel offers complimentary overnight parking, bottle of champagne, exclusive discounts at Japantown and Fillmore Street stores and restaurants. Rate $129.00

• Hilton San Francisco Union Square offers $20.00 off best available rate, promo code "PA" must be used.

We are heading north for some skiing, ahem, “boarding” for my man (What a young and hip vagrant) and East Coast winters will whip you harder than my husband is whipped on me…almost. We will be shopping for some extra warmth at Swedish artic outfitters Fjallraven (www.fjallraven.com). They just opened a store here in NYC and when it comes to massages and winter clothing I think I’ll trust the Swedes.

I just heard of this shop via Daily Candy called Two Bridges Trading Company (http://twobridgestrading.com/) and I’m basically deciding that I’m heading there soon and re-decorating our apartment via the store. It’s a “temporary” set up which means I think as soon as they sell out of nick-knacks its shut down time. Better hurry.

Sunday night Chinese food is about as religious as we get in NYC. Usually it involves tons of white and red containers that end up leftovers later on in the week. This time we’re going out. Chow Bar has a private Sunday night burlesque show (http://chowbarnyc.com/events/sundayburlesque.html) combined with Dim Sum which seems to me the perfect excuse to get the couples together for a night out…a Sunday night out.

One of our favorite haunts when we were both single was Bar Martignetti. It shut its doors awhile back but is now opening in British pub form as Brinkley’s (http://brinkleysnyc.com/). We’re looking forward to returning for some homely beer instead of a wicked singles martini...well maybe a married martini will taste just as good.

So we are weighing our options for Halloween this year. We both love to get out on the town as kids might be in the picture some day and then Halloween turns into pouring through your kid’s candy to make sure its safe, photos accompanied with cutesy sighs and “awwwws” and making sure the child is always in your line of sight as they grab for their Halloween loot. We’ve heard good things about Purgatorio in Times Square (http://enterpurgatorio.com/) …if you have any suggestions let us know!