Thursday, September 29, 2011
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Saturday, September 17, 2011
Girls Trip to NYC!
I went with some darling friends from my old neighborhood-Adriane, Timette and Erin, and boy did we have a blast! Although we didn't come back well rested-you would think we were in our teens again-up on the streets of NYC until 2 am and getting up again by 6 to be audience members of the view. This trip was so fun, and I did things in New York that I had never done before! Thanks for the great memories gals!
The next morning we headed out early to ABC studios to try to be audience members on The View (a dream of Erin's). We got our numbers and were told to come back to the studio at 9am so we headed over to Lincoln Center and sat at a Starbucks, ate breakfast and people watched. This was no ordinary people watching. It was Mercedes Benz Fashion week-taking place in Lincoln Center. So cool! There were all kinds of people from models to designers to people dressed straight-up crazy! I also recognized Austin Scarlet from Project Runway. We headed back over to ABC studios where we found out that indeed we were going to be able to be in the audience! It was so fun! We also told one of the producers that it was Erin's birthday, so they had her to one of the breaks to commercial with Barbara! We had an absolute blast!Next on the schedule was lunch at Serendipity III. It was SO good! I had had their frozen hot chocolate before (which is amazing), but I had never ordered food there-and their sandwiches are to die for! Afterwards we wanted to see Central Park, but didn't have a ton of time, so we did Peddy Cab rides. By far the funnest way I have seen Central Park!That night we had tickets to a show near Times Square. Well apparently we didn't anticipate how truely difficult it can be to catch a cab heading further into the city at that time of night-we were seriously 20 or 30 minutes late for our show, and that is after we gave up and booked it on foot (through Grand Central Station at one point-which was neat because I had never been there). But we finially arrived and love the musical Memphis. It was darling!Afterwards we checked out Times Square and ate another late dinner at Hard Rock Cafe there.Had to take a pic with the famous Naked Cowboy!The next morning we were off to Soho and Canal Street to do some shopping! We went to DASH-the Kardashian storewhere we supprised Erin with a bottle of Khloe and Lamar's perfume!We ate at a delicious Italian place for lunch and then headed back to the hotel.
Once again, we didn't appreciate rush hour traffic and realized that we would be hard pressed to get not only ourselves, but our luggage taboot onto the Subway to take to the airport. We ended up calling a town car to take us instead. Happily we made our flight. I had such a great time with these ladies! It will be hard to beat!