NYC Tourist Spectacular!
Nov 27th 2009 10:19:06 pm
I meant to do a re-cap post for each day on the day it happened… and I should have! Now it is overwhelming because Seth, Travis, and I have done SO MUCH STUFF! Be warned, this is a giant post with all the details of our touristy adventures!
Monday
Monday, we started with a trip to Prospect Park with Crusher for the off-leash doggy time. Then, we headed to Manhattan and ate lunch at Hello Deli. Seth got his photo taken with Rupert! We stood in line for the Late Show with David Letterman for hours, but it paid off because we got to attend the day’s taping. We also walked around Times Square and went to the giant M&M and Hershey’s stores. They gave out free candy samples! Yes! I got scanned by an MnM machine that determined I was Mega Mix flavor. Hmmm. Even after free candy, we had a craving for cupcakes, so we stopped at Crumbs and picked up a few to take home. Then, we met Travis at the Brooklyn Bridge and walked across to Grimaldi’s for pizza, but you already know that.
Tuesday
Tuesday started with another walk to Prospect Park, then a very tasty lunch at Brooklyn Fish Camp – we had lobster knuckles, a trout sandwich, and conch soup. Then we headed to the Upper East Side and visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We viewed just about every gallery! After taking in all of the art, we walked down Madison Avenue. I love window shopping at the ritzy stores, but I think Seth was bored… until we hit FAO Schwarz on 5th Ave! Toys! Seth got his photo taken with the Lego Chewbacca. After all of our walking, we met Travis for dinner at Shake Shack.
Wednesday
Wednesday was our “rest” day. After a long walk around our neighborhood to Brooklyn Bread and Gorilla Coffee, I worked on some Thanksgiving meal prep. Then, we headed to Chinatown to check out the scene. We walked all over the Lower East Side and ended up at Yonah Shimmel’s Knish-ery for lunch. The restaurant is 100 years old and the potato knishes were delish! You know that I can’t pass up a cupcake, so we had to stop at Babycakes bakery for a box. Babycakes is a gluten-free bakery and the cupcakes were adorable and surprisingly tasty! We also shopped around Soho for a bit despite the rainy afternoon weather. Seth bought a new scarf at UNIQLO. For dinner, we came back to our apartment and ordered JPan. Crusher was happy.
Thursday
If you have already forgotten, Thursday was Thanksgiving. We woke up at 6:30 am to head out to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. We did not have any reliable intelligence as to where the best place to watch would be, so we blindly headed up to the Upper West Side. After a lot of walking and maneuvering, we found a place to stand in Central Park at about 64th Street. The parade was fun and the little kids watching it were cute, but I don’t know if I need to attend it every year… We didn’t get back to our apartment until after 1 pm. On our way home we made a quick stop at Grand Central Terminal so Seth could check it off his NY sight-seeing list.
I started the meal prep right away when we got home, but we didn’t sit down to eat until about 6. Our meal was very good, but I’ll save discussion of the menu and the full critique for a future post… After stuffing ourselves, we watched Christmas Vacation and relaxed. It was a great Thanksgiving!
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You will have to wait for the Friday/Saturday installment of our adventure until tomorrow…. This post has gotten out of control! You can view all of these photos, and more, on my Flickr.
2 Comments » Categories: Brooklyn, Family, Food, New York, Photos, holidays
travis on 28 Nov 2009 at 9:40 am #
it has been a very fun week! we only have one day left with seth, but we plan to make the most of it.
BabyCakes NYC on 03 Dec 2009 at 2:30 pm #
Thank you so much for stopping by the bakery! We are so happy to hear that you enjoyed the cupcakes!
Love,
BabyCakes NYC