So today’s the day we pack up the car and hit the home-bound road – hoping this time it doesn’t include breakdowns and/or black bears! Once home I’ll sort out photos and do a “brief” recap of the awesomeness that was BloggerBash 2016.
Last night PITA and I walked around Times Square (actually just wanted a Panera scone), taking in the same old, same old: The Naked Cowboy wasn’t in sight (white guy in white briefs), but Titus the Black Cowboy was (black briefs); the topless ladies were back in bikini underwear, heels and body paint. FirstBorn thinks he’s getting one for Christmas – my bad. Tremendous uniformed police presence all around the city and especially in Times Square – we’re talking hundreds compared to only the plainclothes ones of prior years. Well, I guess they had plainclothes ones, but obviously couldn’t point them out 🙂 Lots and lots of construction – whole buildings taken down for who knows what’s coming?
Yesterday I spent waaaay too much time trying to load or download or even just get online at my hotel. When I finally gave up in disgust (well, it was either that or toss the laptops out the window into the pool (yes, our room overlooks the hotel pool) and went out with PITA, the desk clerk informed me that the entire hotel was down and the technicians were working on it. phooey for modern technology! Remember, though, that I continued to tweet all day.
Then off to the East Village Cheese shop where all my cheese dreams and fantasies come true. It’s my yearly pilgrimage and one I adore. Luckily my hotel room has a refrigerator so no cheesy worries. Picked up a baguette and enjoyed late lunch in the park. Grabbed the subway back updown since the temperatures have all been in the muggy 90’s this week.
This holistic pet shop was across the street from the cheese shop – several stores wide. There are lots and lots of people out walking their pets, so obviously this is a lucrative business. Well, in New York City, at least!
Later PITA treated us to a mani/pedi, since there wasn’t anything we wanted to grab on Broadway (well, through the discount site, that is!) Stopped for ice cream from a truck – I ate mine, but PITA’s ended up eating her! Told her you have to eat really fast in the heat.
Saw the garage sale sign on the way to the library and told DH we needed to stop there on the way to lunch “because I had a good feeling about it.” Whoa! Tons of new stuff (all new, actually) and impossibly small size shoes – 5½ and 6, which just happens to be the size PITA wears! The fifteen pairs of shoes and boots, plus Isotoner gloves, Talbots sundress (nwt @ $128), a cotton dog/cat washable bed, some hats and, of course, the 100% cotton comforter it’s all resting on. PITA is set for years now. Oh, and the OOP was $27 (the price tag on the Isotoners alone!).
Since Costco stopped carrying my favorite coffee, the Sam’s Club Offer to Costco members couldn’t be more fortuitous! Decided to pick up a few 2 lb packages, since the whole beans last a long time. Not that it’s likely to hit expiration dates in my house! Walk in and show my Costco card – old guy looks at it and says you know you’re at Sam’s Club, right? I give him The Look, his brain fart passes and I walked on. Couldn’t have been easier to check out since I didn’t have to do anything but pay with a Visa card. easy-peasy shopping.
Spent a few hours at The Growing Place in Naperville today for their Gardener’s Art Festival – clever art, fun music and food trucks! PITA got this really cool watering chicken with beads and crystals, one of the tote bags shown below (DH is the photographer… which is why his all look in focus!), plus a tie-dye tee. We all enjoyed toasted cheese sandwiches and rosemary french fries. This painted window somehow appealed to me…
