Happy Friday!

Happy Friday from NYC! It is a chilly 39 degrees and I could not be happier about it. Love the cold! I started today off by getting our traditional office work bagels from famed Murrays, and ran into Sarah Jessica Parker (hello, Sex in the City!). Last weekend, Katie Beard came in town from Philly, where she is a childlife specialist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. It was SO good to have a friendly familiar face to spend the weekend with! Friday night we went out to a little hole in the wall sushi joint, and then headed to famous Magnolia Bakery for some cupcakes!

They were delicious! Apparently New York really loves Halloween, because virtually every store/place I enter is decked out. I'm ok with this, as I pretty much love any kind of holiday decorating. After eating ourselves into a sugar coma, we passed out for a good 10 hours. It was AWESOME and much needed. Saturday morning I decided it would be a good idea to take Katie out for a traditional NYC brunch. We headed to Good Enough to Eat and once again ate ourselves silly:

If you can't tell, the food here is really good. We then headed down to Times Square to see if we could get in last minute to see Daniel Radcliffe's play. Didn't go so well. Instead, we headed down to where I work in the Meatpacking District/Chelsea/West Village and did a full days worth of just hanging out and shopping. I wanted to show her parts of the city that tourists don't normally go, and we had a blast! Randomly, we ran into John Kerry having a serious talk on his cell:

I tried to get a non-stalkerish distance away before I pulled out my camera, cause I'm sure he just wanted to be left alone. Still, very random/cool. Before we knew it, it was time to get back to watch the Tennessee game! We picked up a large delicious pizza from Patsy's and headed home to curl up to watch the game. We all know how that ended! (Roll Tide). Sunday we got up and walked from my apartment on 89th all the way through Central Park to the Museum of Modern Art (about 2.5 miles). It was a gorgeous day and the temperature was perfect so we took our time and enjoyed the park. The museum was.... interesting. I will never understand why people are paid ungodly amounts of money for ripping a piece of paper and framing it and it ends up in the MoMa?! Who knows. After about 2 hours, we were a little tired of the random weird art, but we were definitely glad we went! Sundays in the city at a museum just can't be beat. Plus, we still use our student ID's to get discounts. Here are a couple more pictures from our weekend!

We had a blast! Thanks for reading, come back again next week :)