NYC

Here is the saga of NYC in a nutshell:

Friday:
-Lunch at Jane in Soho. I had toasted ricotta gnocchi with truffle crema. A-fucking-making. And housemade blackberry soda to drink. The restaurant was so chic they didn't even have regular coke or Pepsi, lol.
- Tour of the International Culinary Center. They fed us scones and turmeric curry raisin bread. They showed us the library with 4,000 cookbooks. They showed us chefs, and walls of fame, and kitchens, and everyone was amazingly nice. It made me sad that I didn't go to culinary school when I was younger. It made me wonder if it's too late.
-We walked back almost 5 miles on my bum foot...but it was ok, we took our time and stopped for gelato. I had passion fruit and amaretto; Tina had lemon and berry. We shared. All 4 favors we're to die for.
- We stopped in Crumbs and bought  a half dozen cupcakes which we ate slowly all weekend.
- We went to Toys R Us and rode the ferris wheel.
- We went to see If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet. We were blown away. We met Annie Funke, the lead actress, and told she was amazing. We met Jake Gyllenhaal. I took a picture with him while Christina practiced her s & m skills on his bicep. We had a drink with Annie. And Jake showed up.
- We met Rebecca, Dave and the kids. We drank some more.
- We went to a liquor store and went to Paula's apartment, where we sat on the rooftop in the middle of the city, drank some more, and contemplated moving there.
- We  walked back to the amazingly located hotel and bought some pizza, which we ate chased by cupcakes at 3 or 4am.
 - We tried to sleep...but just kept repeating "Jake fucking Gyllenhaal" back and forth and laughing for a good hour.

Saturday:
- Breakfast at 128 Stage Restaurant. This is the diner that Jeremy Renner's character owned and lived in on The Unusuals. I was beyond excited. We had banana pancakes and cornedbeef hash. All delicious.
- We went to American Girl where I bought souvenirs, of course.
- We went to 30 Rock and took the NBC Tour and met Bill Hader while looking at the SNL set. The tour guide says that has never happened to her before...a star coming out to meet the group. Tina and I were not surprised.
- We went to the top of the building even though we are both afraid of heights. We were not afraid. We even went to the highest level, the one without the glass protective barriers. We were on top of the world, literally and figuratively.
- We went to Jacques Torres and had chocolates...one each, and shared halves. Passion Fruit and Alize with dark chocolate and green tea dark chocolate. They were so good, we cried. We really did.
- We went to Eataly. We bought pastries. We ate cheese and charcuterie...we drank more fancy soda...we walked around, taking it all in...imagined moving to NYC some more.
- We walked back...went to the Disney Store where Tina got one of the last Maleficent dolls.
- We went to Hershey.
- We went to Milk Bar and got compost cookies and a pretzel milkshake.
- We went to a comic store and I found my Hawkeye figure.
- We went to Newsies where we got drunk and I cried tears of fucking utter joy.
- We literally ran to Esca...where you have to get reservations a month in advance...but we secured some that day cause we're awesome, lol. We drank bellini's...crostini compliments of the chef...crispy pumpkin flower salad...heirloom tomato and housemade mozzarella salad....gnocchi and eggplant...tiny desserts. We changed our waiter's name from Ferhat to Gianni.
- We wanted to drink some more and walking back, ran into Adam Duritz. I nearly peed my pants.
- We went to some bars and finally to Starbucks and sat in Time Square for half the night. Tina said the only way the trip could be better was if money fell from the sky. We turned a corner, looked down, and a $20 bill was on the ground. This really happened,
- We decided we wanted to go to a psychic. We turned a corner and there one was...but walter we walked up four flights of stairs and they turned rickety and crooked and a boy that looked like the kid from The Shining ran out, we booked it out of there.
- Went back to the hotel and ate more cupcakes and watched The Unusuals on my IPad. Too wired to sleep. Made reservations at The Russian Tearoom for Sunday brunch...read the menu...changed our minds.

Sunday:
 - Went to Brooklyn Diner for breakfast and ate red velvet waffles.
- Went to Crumbs and bought more cupcakes.
- Took in the city and thought about moving some more.
- Headed to the airport.

Epic. Epic. Epic weekend.