SoHo, New York City
The May long weekend has come and gone and what a great weekend it was! As mentioned the hubby and I went to New York City to visit (and stay with) our good friend Agee and her boyfriend Sean.
We left Toronto on Thursday night and made it all the way to Syracuse (laughable I know) before we called it a night. We were up bright and early on Friday morning as we were determined to make it to the Woodbury Common Outlets for 9am, right when they opened. For all those who have never been to the Woodbury Common Outlets, GO! The mall is conveniently located only an hour outside of NYC and stocked full of super deals. We got amazing deals on sunglasses, shoes, much-needed summer clothes and more. I digress. We we’re all shopped out at about 2pm. We loaded our stuff in the car and headed for Manhattan. We were relaying on our new GPS to get us to Agee’s and excited to find out that we were only an hour and 15 minutes away when we left the outlets. After several missed turns (no thanks to CRAZY rush-hour traffic and pushy NYC drivers) we somehow ended up in the middle of Central Park. We took the super scenic route driving across all of Manhattan and didn’t get to Agee’s until a bit after 7pm. We had a good laugh about our detour over several drinks.
Cupcakes at Dean & Deluca
Saturday consisted of shopping and people watching in So-Ho and was followed by a fantastic dinner a Dos Caminos (nothing like a cold Corona and homemade guacamole on a hot day). That night we went to a super fun fundraiser for Agee’s boyfriend’s Irish football team. The clever lads rented a restaurant and set up a boxing ring in the middle it. Several brave souls from his team offered to fight (for fun of course) against each other to raise funds for the team. The event was amazing! I’ve never been in a room with so many Irish people before, it was the best! They ended up raising over $18,000! I’m glad we could help out.
Myself, Sean and Agee at Irish Football Fundraiser
Sunday was another jam-packed day. Once again we hit up Manhattan. We walked from Union Square to SoHo, back to Union Square and then attempted to make our way to Central Park…on foot. Seeing as how the weather was beautiful we thought this was a good idea….not knowing that the park was over 60 blocks away! Needless to say we ended up hopping into a cab. Once we got to Central Park we rented bikes and rode around for 2 hours. Again, if you’ve never does this, it’s a must! The weather was glorious and the scenery to die for. That night we had dinner a cute Italian restaurant in our friends’ neighbourhood. It didn’t look like anything special on the outside but when we walked in we were blown away! It was as if though we were in the heart of Tuscany. The smell of roasted rosemary and fresh homemade tomato sauce had our mouths watering. Dinner was followed by drinks and great talks…
Me in Union Square
We got up bright and early on Monday as we wanted to get home and still have time to relax as we were exhausted after three jam-packed days. We made it back for 2pm and still had time to enjoy a cold beer and catch a bit of sun in the backyard before we called it a night.
Many thanks for having us Ags and Sean, it was an AMAZING time as usual! Can’t wait until our road trip in July.
New York City
From Me To The World 
