Thankfully, I stopped by Whole Foods last night and bought myself some fruit cups for breakfast this morning!
Leann and I went to my very favorite place for tea room in the world so she could get a giftcard for some friends. You can read about our adventure last year, and my experience at Alice's Teacup HERE. I'm SERIOUSLY bummed that we couldn't have tea there, but NEXT YEAR we WILL!!! After that, we went to the Met. I love it there! I could sit and stare for hours. Afterward, we went and sat on the steps to the Met, and Leann bought a hotdog from a vendor out front. I waited until we found an organic store somewhere, and I bought this chickpea salad and this fruit-by-the-foot-like thing with no sugar.
Then, Leann took me to her new apartment to check it out before they move in! So cool! After that, we headed WAY downtown to a bridal shower where I got to meet most of her friends from the city! It was fun, and the rooftop deck it was on was so great! I also managed not to eat one of those SO scrumptious looking cupcakes from a cupcake bakery.
After that, Leann and I went to High Line! I've never heard of it before, much less been there! It's an old above ground train track that has been made into a walking path/garden. It was SO...VERY...GREAT!! That was probably the highlight of my trip (aside from seeing Leann) this time!
I was starving after that, so fortunately we found a Chipotle! I got a vegetarian salad. It was SO good, and since I was hungry, but was absolutely NOT looking forward to eating because I knew it would just be more vegetables! It totally hit the spot!
We're back to Leann's apartment now, and we just made my famous chocolate chip cookies! I want one somethin' fierce, but I didn't even lick my fingers!
I'm heading home tomorrow afternoon, and all I have to do is remember to pick up some food before I leave because there's no way "turnpike food" is going to cut it!
In short, I'm totally bummed that I didn't get to enjoy all the amazing food the City has to offer this trip, but I am happy that I had enough self control to honor my commitment to God.
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Saturday, April 21, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Kelly's DAY TWELVE~My big apple adventure
Okay, folks...I'm in New York City for the weekend. This could get (and already has been) interesting.
I packed a sliced avocado and some snacks for the road, stopped for a Naked juice at one point, and drank a LOT...a LOT...of water. When I made it to the train station, I circled up four flights in the parking garage, skeedaddled down to purchase my ticket, and by the time I finished, the train was coming. My dear friends, you have NO IDEA how much I wanted to take another train 20 minutes later just so I could go to the restroom! My 80 minute (jiggling) train ride was seriously painful, and by the time I got to Penn Station, I sprinted to the nearest bathroom and peed a marathon pee.
For dinner, my friend, her roommate and I went to Cafe Mocha. It was fun. Leann and Emily ordered some fantastic looking coffee drinks, and we ate dinner. I ordered a salad without the chicken and tortilla strips. Unfortunately for me, it had little slices of cheese throughout the salad that I had to pick out one by one. It's all good. The picking made the salad even better.
When Leann and I were talking about what we are going to do tomorrow, she mentioned that we should go to Serendipity's for a frozen mocha. Yes. She's aware of my fast, but it's easy to forget about dietary restrictions when they don't affect you. The only part I could eat in a frozen mocha is the "frozen" part. I told her we can totally go there, but she wants to wait until next time. Later, we went into Dylan's Candy Bar, where they give way free fudge samples. After I bought a little birthday present for one of Tate's friends, Leann said, "Oh! Let's go downstairs and get a fudge sample!" I just looked at her, as this was the third time she said something like that today. Her reply, "OH! I'm SO insensitive!!!" Haha! No, you're NOT insensitive, Leann! You're just not fasting!
We were able to swing through Whole Foods, and I bought myself breakfast for the next two days, hummus, and some celery and carrot sticks (which I totally whipped out later when we went to see "The Lucky One"). Yep. We ate celery, carrot sticks and hummus in the movie theater.
So, we'll see how tomorrow goes! It's the "Big Apple!" They should have plenty of fruit and veggies! And, I think from now on, I'm just going to tell the waiters/waitresses that I'm "vegan." Maybe they won't throw microscopic cheese in my salad!
I packed a sliced avocado and some snacks for the road, stopped for a Naked juice at one point, and drank a LOT...a LOT...of water. When I made it to the train station, I circled up four flights in the parking garage, skeedaddled down to purchase my ticket, and by the time I finished, the train was coming. My dear friends, you have NO IDEA how much I wanted to take another train 20 minutes later just so I could go to the restroom! My 80 minute (jiggling) train ride was seriously painful, and by the time I got to Penn Station, I sprinted to the nearest bathroom and peed a marathon pee.
For dinner, my friend, her roommate and I went to Cafe Mocha. It was fun. Leann and Emily ordered some fantastic looking coffee drinks, and we ate dinner. I ordered a salad without the chicken and tortilla strips. Unfortunately for me, it had little slices of cheese throughout the salad that I had to pick out one by one. It's all good. The picking made the salad even better.
When Leann and I were talking about what we are going to do tomorrow, she mentioned that we should go to Serendipity's for a frozen mocha. Yes. She's aware of my fast, but it's easy to forget about dietary restrictions when they don't affect you. The only part I could eat in a frozen mocha is the "frozen" part. I told her we can totally go there, but she wants to wait until next time. Later, we went into Dylan's Candy Bar, where they give way free fudge samples. After I bought a little birthday present for one of Tate's friends, Leann said, "Oh! Let's go downstairs and get a fudge sample!" I just looked at her, as this was the third time she said something like that today. Her reply, "OH! I'm SO insensitive!!!" Haha! No, you're NOT insensitive, Leann! You're just not fasting!
We were able to swing through Whole Foods, and I bought myself breakfast for the next two days, hummus, and some celery and carrot sticks (which I totally whipped out later when we went to see "The Lucky One"). Yep. We ate celery, carrot sticks and hummus in the movie theater.
So, we'll see how tomorrow goes! It's the "Big Apple!" They should have plenty of fruit and veggies! And, I think from now on, I'm just going to tell the waiters/waitresses that I'm "vegan." Maybe they won't throw microscopic cheese in my salad!
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