Cookies in the City

NYC takes a lot out of me. Jackson loves it. I have more of a love/hate relationship with it so it was no surprise that by Saturday morning I wanted to hide from all of the people. Jackson wouldn't hear of it so he walked me to one of my favorite lunch spots, Cosi (we had one in my work building in Boston that I visited nearly daily). It was delicious and I was ready to take on the crowds again.


Jackson found a less crowded entry into Central Park (bless his heart) and we soaked it all in. I will say that there simply is no city park in the world that I've been to than can rival Central Park! It is just almost electric.

Views from the park

You know how I feel about trees!

Cute boy!

We wandered through to the Upper West Side to visit a bakery I'd seen a ton of social media postings about in recent weeks, Levain Bakery. We waited about 15 minutes (which I hardly noticed as we made friends with a college girl in line behind us) and then had the most delicious cookies ever. You cannot eat in the bakery so we walked the 3 blocks back to Central Park to enjoy them. These are 6 ounce, 1 inch tall monsters that go for $4 each. They only have four flavors: chocolate chip walnut (we bought 3!), chocolate with chocolate chunk (not our style), oatmeal raisin (too likely infested with cinnamon) and dark chocolate peanut butter chip (we bought 2!). That's right, we spent 15 minutes waiting on $20 worth of cookies. Only in NYC! You've just never had anything like these cookies before, though, and if you're ever in the area certainly stop on over.

The cookie line

Best. Cookie. Ever.

Once we'd finished the equivalent of one cookie each and proclaimed we would never need to eat a sweet again, we headed back to our part of town. We stopped at the Columbus Circle shopping area for a bit before heading back to our room to escape the predicted afternoon rainstorm that never happened. Oh well, I was cool with recharging my batteries for a bit before a night out. 

Date night

We wanted to do a nice dinner to celebrate my birthday a bit early so we headed to an Italian place recommended by the concierge. It was a cozy little restaurant and the salads we had were quite good. The entrees turned out to be less than stellar and I sent mine back unable to eat it because it was just so salty. The restaurant agreed that the dish was subpar and refused to let us pay for a thing! Now that's service. We were so impressed. Again, we left a fair tip because we aren't animals. While I don't think I'd go back to the restaurant, I certainly will not leave a poor TripAdvisor review since they so quickly addressed the letdown.

I have a crush on him!!!

Since I didn't actually get dinner we walked down to a Chick-fil-a and I ordered nuggets for dinner. Ha!! :) This was the busiest restaurant ever and let's just say we were ready to head out so I ate my nuggets on the street. Who says romance doesn't live in marriage?! ;) We meandered around, sat in Bryant Park for a bit people watching and then called it a night. We seriously walked so much (over 10 miles) that I just couldn't keep my eyes open! It was a fun day, though.