Allora…

This weekend Jenna came to NYC! Allie, her sister in law had never been to NYC and wanted to do something fun for her own birthday which was Saturday. It was great for Jenna to getaway for the weekend and goof off without the kiddies. No offense kids – but you cramp a girls style! Also, I was the SHORTEST out of the three of us. Never in my life…. Also we are all leo’s. But we managed to get along just fine. I unfortunately had to work friday, but on Saturday and Sunday we did as much as we could.

1. Natural History Museum – we saw “journey to the stars” and some crazy dinosaurs
2. walked around central park – didnt get to the fountain jenna wanted to see – ahhh sorry, we ran out of time!
3. went to kefi (my favorite restaurant) for lunch – jenna felt the same way as i do about the grilled octopus and bean salad. love.
4. subway up to yankee stadium for yankees v. redsox in the bleachers. the bleacher creatures were insane but were nice to us – check out the pics and you’ll get an idea about these individuals.
5. Sushi dinner and then out to brass monkey and gstaad
6. wake up go to Metropolitan Museum of Art. I love that place – everyone loved that place. I think jenna really enjoyed it bein the art history buff she is and Allie was definitely impressed with it all. We saw the American Woman fashion exhibit (had the most gorgeous clothing and a really cool history of how fashion and the american woman have evolved – i tried to take pics but got in trouble – no pics in that exhibit) and the Picasso exhibit which blew my mind because it was SO extensive. He was producing art for like 50 years which is incredible. And he wasn’t always so surrealist/cubist, he also did beautiful pen and ink sketches, and painting before and after his extreme years and that was cool to see. I need to go back there again soon. I always miss something I want to see.

We did as much a we could and I think I did a decent job playing NYC tour guide. it was fun to show people around the parts that i actually know.

lots of pics!!!!! which btw – mariel maybe you have some advice. had a hard time focusing in the museums. I didd the best I could – but I didn’t want to use my flash bc I hate how that looks. The lighting is so dim that short of having a tripod, I don’t know what else I could have done to get them sharper.

These were taken a while ago. Wanted a big burger, but didnt want it to be 3,000 calories. Went with a turkey and portobello mushroom burger on sandwich things. big slices of tomato and grilled onions. Also – gotta have a ’special sauce’. This one is 1 tbsp mayo, 1 tsp mustard 1/2 tsp tomato paste, 2 chopped pickles. dayum!