Dr Pepper

I love the fact that Dr Pepper is readily available here; not necessarily in all of the restaurants, but nearly everywhere. I try not to drink it too often, it's really not good for me.. but tonight is a night of indulgence :) After eating chicken lo mein from Sea Asian, I'm having my DP with a small chocolate bar from Jacques Torres, while watching movies with my roomie. It's really a great end to a great weekend, and hopefully a good kick-off to the week.

On Saturday, after the chocolate shop, a few of us girls went into Manhattan to try to get tickets to Phantom. They didnt have standing room at that point, so we stepped over to Les Miserables. There we secured the last three standing room tickets for myself, Nat, and Erika. Our original intent was to get student tickets to Les Miz, and that might have been a better idea in the long run, but other than standing for three hours and not being able to see the very top of the set (the slanted balcony roof above us sucked), I still thoroughly enjoyed the musical.

Before attending the play, we headed to Little Italy with Ruth for some dinner at Le Mela. The food was wonderful and it led into the great experience at Les Miz. The singing was phenomenal, the props were spectacular.. and two of the actors extremely good looking ;) Afterwards, Erika bought a poster and I bought mug and still we payed less than the people sitting in the back of the orchestra who had the same view as us. Once we made our purchases, we moved outside to get some pics. Soon the cast started filing out and I was able to get all of the main characters (who came out) to sign Erika's poster. The woman who played Fantine was the singing voice for Princess Jasmine and Mulan in the Disney movie, she was pretty great! We also got a photo with Marius (one of the good-looking guys).

Sunday was lazy until the early evening. Then Erika and I got dressed up to go to the Edward Scissorhands ballet with Stephen at BAM. It was a little corny, but we all enjoyed it nonetheless. Afterwards we walked down to Veliis for a nice dinner, at which time Hunter met up with us. It was a fun night.

Chocolate

It's Saturday :) Finally! I'm really ready to be done with work.. I like it for sure, but I just want summer to be here I suppose (more on that later). So far today we have gone to Jacques Torres' shop in Brooklyn, which is actually only a few blocks away.http://jacquestorres.com/dumboLocation.aspx
It was a great little (emphasis on little) shop, filled with chocolate delights. Erika and I did agree and that some were a bit odd, and not very creative-- like chocolate covered cheerios or corn flakes? Gross. The chocolate covered peeps did look interesting though; the whole store was decked out for Easter and the peeps were part of that display. Perhaps when it's not Easter it's more similiar to the shop in "Chocolat" but that is doubtful because his hot chocolate was far from life-changing, instead it nearly made me sick. It was literally hot chocolate; I believe they melted rich milk chocolate, put a bit of milk in it and steamed it. It was just too much.

Anyway, we're off to more adventures...

Cupcakes..mmm.. yum

The day before my sister came in town I attended a Relient K concert here in New York. It was amazing! I was going to write about, but I wrote a review of it instead. So you can read that: http://www.baylor.edu/lariat/news.php?action=story&story=44707
I also saw Chicago the following weekend. However, that was dissapointing. Roxie was old and there wasnt such much dancing. The second half was better and we got to sit in the balcony, though we bought standing room tickets. Overall it was the best or the worst, and we watched the movie tonight to make up for it.

Ok that's all that I have :)

I love cupcakes.

Sister and time

It's been a long time since I've blogged. My life has been crazy lately and I think New York is starting to weigh on me. My hair is darker, my mood less Southern :) And I'm actually getting homesick. I think it happens when you leave a place and you know it's not for good, but it feels like it is. If I was going to leave home for good, then I would be prepared for it, but I'm not finished with school and I miss my family. I can't help but think, just one more month. But the other half of me hates thinking that. I hated when my roommate was counting down the days until we would go home, granted she was doing it from day one, but still. I'm here, this is an amazing experience. Seriously. Thankfully, I have quite a few plans and much more to see before I leave. I'll be busy over the next few weeks, but in the end at least I'll be happy to be home and not dissapointed.

So my sister visited for her spring break. It wasn't my spring break, mainly because we dont really get one, but I took a few days off anyway. She got here on a Saturday and I rode the subway to JFK to meet her. I dont think I was able to stop talking for awhile becuase I was so excited. I'm afraid I wore her out while she was here though.. That night we had my favorite pizza, Grimaldis, followed by ice cream and then we walked along the river. Sunday was the Central Park Zoo-which is very small but still good. They have red pandas, which are the cutest things, though they are more similar to foxes I think. Then Sunday afternoon we explored the Park, rode the carousel, picked up my camera (that is finally fixed!!) and visited the National History Museum. The evening plans were dinner at Sea Asian and the Upright Citizens Brigade comedy show.. Are you getting tired just hearing all that we did in two days?? I can't believe I actually drug her all over the city in that amount of time.

Other than that, over the next few days we had lunch in Chinatown and went shopping in Union Square--where we saw Stacy and Clinton from "What not to Wear"!! We visited Times Square, went to the Met, went shopping on 5th Ave, had lunch at Prime Burger, watched Scrubs, went to FAO Schwartz, visited the Sony Wonder Tech, went to the Disney store, saw Midtown, and had hot dogs at the corner stand. I think that's the gist of it. Then Thursday morning I rode with her for a bit on the subway as she headed back to JFK, then I turned around and headed into Manhattan and to work. It was sad to see her go. We had some great weather while she was here, the best so far, but the next day -Friday-we had a winter storm. She barely missed seeing the snow in central park. And when it's back to being warm we'll have even more to do.

Here is one wonderful thing I have learned here - there is always something to do. I have spent to much time sitting at home, wanting to go out but not knowing what to do. That's just crazy when we live in an age of the wonderful Internet. It holds all the event calendars to anything worth attending. From now on, even if I have to drive to Dallas or Austin, I'll make sure I have entertaining weekends and not let life pass me by as I sit and veg. Not that I wont do a fair share of that as well, I guess I'm just learning how to better make use of opportunities. Hopefully that makes sense.

My old roommate from last year came to visit during spring break too, but I only got to see her the first day she was here. Whenever she wasn't out, I was and vice versa, but I hope she enjoyed New York. There were tons of people here for spring break, actually, and quite a few who were stuck here when the storm hit. But as far as I heard, they all made it home safely.

Ok I'm going to try to update, tomorrow and be more consistent. Things have just been crazy. Miss you all.

Love you and good night :)

Train Race

What we do on Saturday nights.. in the subway, on our way home.