New York City - A Quick Side Note Find

The new Starbucks summer drinks had arrived while in NYC. One day they weren't there, the next they were. Of course, my mom got me set on Orange and Chocolate together as a small kid (she loves it, I would try it). While Gus was trying one of their new breakfast sandwiches (which, by the way, kicks all other breakfast sandwiches butts- ha, they don't have butts), I was trying one of their Orange Mocha Frappuccino (sp?). Very good- highly recommended. Recommended to my mom via cell phone right there while I was drinking it.

The second option is the Orange Mocha hot (good as well). And then the delightful Orange Creme Frappuccino. Yum. If you ever loved Creamsicles as a kid (vanilla ice cream, on a popsicles stick, with orange flavored ice surrounding it)- you'll love this. I thought the Tall was a waste, but the Grande was a little too much other day. Who knows- it's still good and worth a try. (Photos courtesy of Starbucks.com)

New York City - Greenwich Village

This is the second part to my day of "items." This picture was shot by Gus and it's very "Felicity-esque" and was meant to be. I am a serious Felicity fan, as any of my close friends would know, and I wanted to visit the Dean & Deluca Coffee Shop and Cafe that Felicity's D&D was fashioned after. It looked nothing like it on the inside, but the outside felt like I could have looked in and seen her.

This was my first challenge with being in Greenwich Village. I told Gus that I keep thinking I would see Felicity walking around by NYU or walking to work at D&D (with a funny laugh of course- I said this to Gus). He reminded me that Felicity is a real person named Keri Russell- who does in fact live in NYC so technically, I could have seen her.

But that's the point- Felicity isn't real, even as much as I connected with the show. It's funny and scarily weird how that works. My disappointment was shown when we entered Dean & Deluca, looking nothing like the TV set, people looking nothing like Felicity characters, and food too expensive to rationalize...we left.

We instead had falafel and shawerma from a walk up stand and walked down to Union Square to eat. There was something going on for Mother's Day and the weather was still gorgeous. Good times and our subway entrance was a few feet away. The lunch was less to brag about- I've never had falafel or shawerma that had curry-flavored sauce on the inside. Not sure where those peeps were from, but it didn't settle with either of our stomachs.

So, that was the end of our Sunday. We headed back into MIDTOWN (there was some confusion on the subway between me and Gus). We have always referred to Times Square area as downtown- it just seems obvious. So we got on the train going Downtown. Downtown is considered Brooklyn area- wrong way. So we jumped off at a few stops down and got on the train heading to Uptown/The Bronx. This took us to Midtown (which is the main heart of the city...duh, in the middle of the island), and we just made it to Mary Poppins in time. Lovely- actually, we had to pick up our tickets at the Stub Hub office first...long day. We were wiped out by the end, but it was fun!