NYC - Day 2

As we were getting ready for the day, Stefan turned on the Today Show to see that Giada DeLaurentis was in the crowds outside of Rockefeller. If you know Stefan, you will know that just like Jay-Z is my celebrity crush, Giada is Stefan's. The look on his face was priceless.... he looked like a little kid that was let down on Christmas.

Instead of walking down to Rockefeller to try and find Giada, we walked up towards Central Park and had breakfast at Sarabeth's (and paid $6 for a glass of orange juice..... welcome to the city, I guess). Stefan swore he saw some famous political analyst from TV at the restaurant, but it wasn't Jay-Z so I wasn't paying too much attention.

I bought tickets for Stefan and I to go on the Sex and the City tour (bless him) so we met in front of the Pulitzer Fountain outside the Plaza Hotel for our GIANT tour bus. Thank goodness it was just plain white and had dark tinted windows so we didn't look like too big of tourists! The tour was SO much fun, we saw so many things from the show and the movie... My favorite part was seeing Budakahn, the place where Carrie and Big's rehearsal dinner was held in the movie. SO beautiful! We got some great ideas for restaurants and shopping and ended up at Bryant Park at the end of the tour.

We walked around the shops at Bryant Park (Stefan bought some earmuffs), and then thought about going ice skating again and decided against it, again due to the weather. :) We walked through Times Square, walked back to the 5th Avenue shops, shopped at Bergdorf Goodman (LOVE THAT STORE!!!!!!!!), then took a carraige ride through Central Park before we started walking to the Upper East Side. Our intention was to take a cab to meet some of my college friends in that neighborhood, but we just started walking.... stopping in different shops until we made it to the restaurant. We stopped at the Jimmy Choo store.... and I'm sure you can figure out what happened next. They are the most BEAUTIFUL black patent pumps.... and they have an alligator-skin texture to them.

We stopped at this awesome market called Eli's before we met up with my friends... if I lived in the city I would be there all the time. They had such an amazing selection of gourmet and healthy food. We made our way to Cascabel, a really cute little mexican place in the Upper East Side and met my college friends Tina and Becca for dinner. The food was SO good and we had a great time catching up.

Instead of walking the 30+ blocks back to our hotel, we took our first (and last) cab ride. The "and last" part really just ended up being a coincidence.... We just walked a lot and later figured out the subway system which made things much easier.