the tourist way

park avenue

lombardi's coal fired pizza (longest 30 minute wait that really was an hour and 15 minutes EVER)

first pinkberry taste ever!

we had to make this stop because of the rave reviews i've read here

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play day in ny

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pretty much serendipity

we so JUST MISSED a celebrity encounter at serendipity3

...seconds after jessica simpson & tony whats his face left

friday the 13th

yummy frrrrrrozen hot chocolate with pink whipped cream for valentine's day

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movin on up to the west side

while in manhattan, we stayed comfortably at the hotel belleclaire on 77th & broadway

it was nicely sized and had great water pressure in the shower

the only weird thing was that our room smelled like a pizza kitchen past 11pm...

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baby its cold outside

cheese, its friday the 13th!

times square

we passed through columbia university on our way to try ethiopian food, 'along came polly style'

~this was like number 2 on my must do nyc list

so, we hiked over to massawa, on amsterdam in the upper west side

"Our food is traditionally served with injera and eaten by hand. Injera is home baked flat African bread with no sugar or salt added and made from Teff, which is the smallest wheat grain in the world and is found in the high mountains of East Africa.

our server was super helpful and recommended we just order combo entrees so we could try a lot of different items

our choices included:

Tsebhi Derho ~ Braised chicken simmered in a berbere sauce and exotic spices {favorite!}

Tebsi Derho ~ {no desciption on menu, i think this was like pulled chicken}

{a chicken leg in some sauce was also not on the menu, reid ate it}

Shiro ~ Chick peas cooked with ginger and seasoned with a hint of spice

Alitcha~ Potatoes, broccoli, carrots with spices

Tsebhi Hamli ~ Collard greens cooked tenderly with garlic

all eaten with the flat injera bread, which was almost like scooping everything into stretchy, spongy, tart pancakes. good but definitely weird.

i also had the best honey wine i've ever tasted & reid had an ethiopian honey beer that i think he would have traded for something with more flavor.

the camera we took on the trip conveniently kept dying when i needed it most, so we have no photographic evidence of this new experience. i am very sad about this.

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shake shake shake

we chowed down at the shake shack as soon as we got settled in new york.

greasy & expensive but pretty good. especially delicious custard shakes.

my only complaint - no refills of my dr.pepper

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is it bad luck to fly on friday 13th?

 

well reid & i did fly and the only bad thing to happen was that our flight was delayed an hour due to strong winds in new york.

thank goodness.

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i absolutely adore this girl

i hope one day my children are as funny as this precious little one

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we're going to ny!

I'll be in manhattan from feb. 13th through the 16th

if you will be in the city & want to have lunch, call me!

i can't wait.

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earthquake cookies

...or chocolate crinkles from betty

'These cookies have an attractive light and dark contrast perfect for an interesting addition to a cookie tray or for serving by themselves, any time of year!'

get the recipe here

{i use the equivalent amount of cocoa powder instead of baking chocolate}

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day trip to chattanooga

for grandaddy rousseau's 81st i traveled down to chattanooga for the day.

i got stuck at the train tracks close to their house. the sound of a train at night always reminds me of the weeks i would spend with them over the summer as a child.

you can see the earthquake cookies i made on the table, as well as the valentine sugar cookies. i didnt take enough close ups before everyone dug in.

bon anniversaire grand-pere rousseau!

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he's just not that into you

i was really excited and anxious to see this movie after i found out how many stars were in the cast. so sunday afternoon, meredith & i caught the matinee. i definitely hated the book(s) and would not recommend them to anyone. but the screen play was SO much better, i think if not for just a cute chick flick, 'he's just not that into you' is a must see for most girls

{for educational purposes of course}

i typically love jennifer aniston in films & gennifer goodwin is great on hbo's big love.

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today sucked

except for the remnants of pretty snow and yummy broccoli cheese soup,

today was kind of a waste.
work was terrible (surprise).
i froze ALL day.
had lunch alone.
worked hard ALL day

with headache, back ache, and just feeling plain yucky.
bad news from my mom, twice.

ugh.
more snow and even colder tonight...

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another snow day

To market, to market, to buy a fat pig,

Home again, home again, jiggety jig.

To market, to market, to buy a fat hog,

Home again, home again, jiggety jog.
i have a habit of saying the 'home again home again jiggety jig' part when i get home from a long day or a trip. i finally looked up the whole mother goose rhyme, so reid would believe i didnt just make it up. i couldn't believe he had never heard it before?

i stayed home from work today because i wasn't feeling so great. it turned out to be great.

just look at all the snow we got

(this is a great deal of snow for tennessee)

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