so emily came to visit me this past weekend...she ventured up here all the way from Cincinnati via Megabus...not everyone could handle 18 hours on a bus but she did it!...she got here early Saturday morning and I made us breakfast...a couple hours we headed out to walk around the upper west side...we did a little shopping...and then had lunch at the shake shack, which is very well known about NYC...they actually have a web cam online for the madison square park location so that people can check out the line before coming to stand in it for lunch...they have good burgers, fries, and shakes for a reasonable price and it's a big tourist attraction...
after that we headed back to the apartment and hung out for a couple hours and then it was off to our groupon mani/pedis at this random salon near midtown...this place was run by a few russian women and it was an experience...then it was off to dinner at gossip restaurant on 9th avenue, which was delicious...we decided to go to M&M world in times square afterwards, which was against our better judgment...a saturday night in times square when it's almost 90 degrees out is crazy...it's wall to wall tourists...thankfully we made it back to the theater district in time for mary poppins on broadway!...what a great show...it's an adaptation from the movie but includes all of the classic songs and it's just neat to see her flying across the stage (and audience) with her umbrella...i'd highly recommend it!...i see many more broadway shows in my future here...
on sunday, we went to brunch with lana and colin to a place called pastis in the meatpacking district...it was a little french restaurant with a great feel and wonderful food...we decided to walk around that area a little afterwards to walk off the food and ended up near the pride parade...once we got past that we were in washington square park which has recently gone through an extensive renovation, so we sat and enjoyed the surroundings for a bit...then it was over to Soho for some window shopping...emily and i decided to come back to the apartment and rest a bit before our night out...we had dinner at rosa mexicano at lincoln square, which is a fabulous, slightly upscale mexican restaurant...they make the guacamole right at your table and it's so delicious!...after a very filling dinner, we went down to AMC and saw the movie Super 8, which was good and a nice flick to kick off the summer season...
on monday, we lounged around a bit and then headed over to noho near NYU to check out this little jewelry store i'd found one day on groupon...we each found something cool there...we walked down to the nolita house for lunch, which we had a living social deal for, but unfortunately, they weren't open until dinner on mondays, so we had an easy lunch at subway and then walked to a POP yogurt stand...the pomegranate was really good, less tart and more refreshing...while we sat and enjoyed our yogurt, emily decided she wanted to look up what movies/tv shows were being filmed in NYC that day...she found out that a show she recently started watching, white collar, was filming down in the wall street area today...so we grabbed a taxi and went down to the south street seaport...we shopped in the little pier mall for a bit and then walked over to wall street...sure enough, while i was relaxing on a bench by the water, she found the set and got a picture of the show's star...then we headed back uptown to the apartment so we could get ready for our central park bike riding adventure...we rented bikes at a nearby shop for a couple hours and biked the whole loop of central park...we had planned to sort of cut off before the top half where it's really hilly but once we got started riding, we didn't realize how far we'd done until we were trying to bike up these exhausting hills...meanwhile, all of these people are breezing past us, and there were so many runners in the park at this time, people who'd just gotten off work and wanted to let off some steam...we finally made it around though and we were starving at this point...we decided to head to outback steakhouse which wasn't too far because i had a gift card i hadn't used yet...and the food was so good and familiar...for dessert we went to tasti d-lite for some yogurt and then it was back home...
em left before 6am the next morning to catch the megabus back home and i headed back to work...it turned out to be a great weekend overall!....and in a few hours i'll be on a plane back to Cincy for the July 4th weekend...can't wait! :)
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