New York/Birthday

I was so excited to go to New York for my birthday that I couldn’t sleep the night before. I fell asleep around 3:30-4:00 am and we were supposed to wake up at 4:30, I hit snooze cause I was so tired when my alarm went off. We had to get gas before we left so I was feeling a huge urge to speed and get there. During the drive the GPS was taking me all sorts of places, I was confused and I had backup with mapquest directions but Devin didn’t know where we were on the directions and so he told me just to follow the GPS. I ended up driving through Princeton and Staten Island which was WAY wrong according to the other directions but I was very cranky so I just got frustrated and did what the GPS told me to do.

We started off at Baked, I have been wanting to go to this place ever since one of our friends made THE BEST cake I have ever had. It was situated somewhat inside of a ghetto and it was a little uncomfortable parking our car on the sidewalk unattended. When we walked in I just wanted to take my time and look at all of the goodies and enjoy the aroma, I was a little disappointed to find that they didn’t have very much out. I wanted to try their quiche but it looked burnt. The cake slice that I got was pretty good, not near as good as Meredith’s. I got this apricot bar with rosemary and the rosemary was a little overwhelming. Anyways, the good that came out of it is Devin bought me a cookbook, I had planned on getting it on amazon for 16.00 but he wanted to pay full price plus some I guess! It was very nice of him.

The next destination was Central Park. Again, the GPS took us all sorts of weird ways but we found the place where we were planning on parking. We got there before 10 so we only had to pay $12 the whole day, that is a steal! Because of the lack of sleep I was exhausted before I even got out of the car. The walk was uphill to central park and then the route I chose was not as short as I had thought. We went to the reservoir and it was beautiful. I could have stayed there and looked at the scenery for hours. We got a little mixed up with the trails because there were SO many and that put us out of the way from where I had wanted to go. We found Alice and Wonderland but I was not about to walk the extra mile to find Balto, as much as I had wanted a picture of Balto, I can always come back another time!

After Central Park we shot over to Madison Avenue to check out some designer shops and that was really fun but it made me feel extremely poor. I wanted to touch everything but I ended up only going into a couple of the shops. My favorites were Dior, Chanel, and Ralph Lauren. Michael Kors had some gorgeous bags but everything was SO overpriced. Devin got hungry during all of the walking and he got a hot dog but it just made him more hungry so we found this little Italian place called Il Restauranti, it was really scrumptious, Devin got the best dish. It was some noodle thing with cream and it was AMAZING. We shot over to walk by the trump tower and to go to Kate’s Paperie. The paper store was really nice, I bought some cards and paper but not much cause it was pretty expensive for paper! When I was walking around the store I kept thinking about Artco in Rexburg, I love Artco, its so cheap and they have some good stuff if you look. One small piece of paper was $1.60- 2.80, it was CRAZY. After the paper store I wanted to go to Times Square and do some shopping at Macys and then go to 7^th avenue/fashion avenue. We went to Macys looked at a whole bunch of stuff we couldn’t buy and then it seemed like it was time to go, it’s a little depressing going to a place where people spend lots of money and knowing you cant really buy anything. When we were heading to the subway H&M caught my eye so we stopped in. I found some really cute things but only walked out with a really cute gray sweater. Then we went back to the car and made our journey back to Aberdeen. The best part was the GPS took Devin right into the heart of NYC and he was in bumper to bumper for over an hour, the taxis kept veering all over and got close to our car a few times. At one point we were at a light that lasted 1 minute so we were there a LONG time since the traffic was so bad, plus the roads were merging after the light too. During the stop and go I decided to jump out and get us some hot dogs on the street. They were so small I could have gotten 3 for each of us but I didn’t want to look like a fool for a second time since we were in the middle lane and all. We finally got into New Jersey, filled up the car and were on our way. I fell asleep and then when I woke up Devin said HEY! I think I know why the GPS has been being weird…. When I took you to the airport I changed the GPS settings to avoid toll roads. All the main roads around here are toll roads for pete’s sake. So that explained a lot, didn’t make me the happiest but we changed it and it was smooth sailing to Aberdeen.

The most BEAUTIFUL designer shoes!

We were driving toward the Met-Life center and we drove through the building, it was pretty cool!

My delicious hot dog off the street.

My slice of cake from Baked and my Whoopie pie.