Randomosity on Fridays: NYC Edition

I am BACK my darlings from New York City, and oh, was she a more glitzy temptress than I remember! I did much, I ate much, and basically, there was much muchness and I came back with a milkshake cup from the chocolatey paradise of Max Brenner called The Alice Cup. How fitting is that? I love chocolate AND I get a named cup. AWESOME.

Anyway, I'm about to pass out, so quick recap this week. Pictures next time!

1. I experienced the longest shuttle ride of my life. Take a cab from the airport into the city. It's a lot faster and TOTALLY WORTH the extra money. I got in a shuttle at 7:55am and didn't get to my friend's place until 11:30am. I KID YOU NOT.

2. I was a fatty the entire trip. I had a DAY of my vacation dedicated solely to EATING. That day was topped off by a homemade dinner from my friend's pastry chef friend, who (of course) made us dessert. I ate THREE of the brioche desserts he made - with ice cream and strawberries.

3. Um, books! Chilled at a Borders near Wall Street, stepped into Barnes & Noble on 18th - apparently "The Largest Bookstore in the World," and checked out Books of Wonder. Perk to the Books of Wonder trip was the Cupcake Cafe next door. They were part of Bravo's Top Chef: Just Desserts thing, so we got free cupcakes. SO GOOD.

I did mention I was a total FATTY on this trip, right?

4. The sister and I had a whole PERCY JACKSON Adventure at the Metropolitan Museum of Art while we were there. We joked about it when we got there since Percy's a New Yorker and part of his adventure does take place in the Met, but the Met actually has like a pamphlet thing ABOUT Percy Jackson and how "mythology lives" at the Met in their Greek and Roman collection. So that was pretty cool.

Chillin' w/Hamilton at Trinity Church

5. ALEXANDER HAMILTON. For those of you who don't know and/or are new around here, there's something you have to know about me. I'm kinda sorta in love with Alexander Hamilton. Yeah, that handsome fellow on the $10. I think he's super awesome. Well, he was a New Yorker - went to Columbia University (known as King's College back then), lived and practiced in Manhattan, and was interred at Trinity Church. So, OF COURSE, I had to go on little Hamiltonian excursions. Hit up Columbia, Trinity Church, and stumbled upon a portrait of him done by John Trumbull in the American Wing of the Met. Oh and this is behind a building facade replica of a branch of the Bank of the United States a.k.a. Hamilton's brainchild.


That's all for now. You can check out all my ridiculous foodage on Twitter/Twitpic: @kangaru.

More updates/pictures in the future. It's technically Thursday night as I write this and I am tired from travel and I have work tomorrow. So, I will see you all next week. Hope you all had a wonderful week! Anything interesting happen while I was away?


P.S. In case you hadn't heard, the sweet and cool Tere at The Lesser Key HAS AN AGENT!!! Go congratulate her if you haven't already! Oh and her agent also reps Suzanne Collins, as in the woman who wrote the freaking Hunger Games trilogy. So yeah, congrats FOR REALS, Tere!