NYC with the Ladies

This weekend my three girlfriends (Melanie, Kayla, & Brooke) and I took a quick trip up to NYC. Friday night we bussed up after work. When we got there we were feeling excited and energetic so we decided to walk to our hotel...until it started POURING with an amazing lightning storm (Jeri would have loved it). By then no taxis wanted to pick us up because they were all full (see photo below of Kayla with our only umbrella standing in the middle of the road trying to hail a taxi), so we started our trip off with a [wet] bang.

After we finally made it to our hotel we immediately took off for a midnight snack. Brooke requested we go to S'mac - a little hole in the wall that only serves mac'n'cheese. They had every kind of mac'n'cheese you can imagine. Yum!

After gorging ourselves with Mac'n'cheese we had to get dessert...so we went to the well-known Veniero Paticceria to have eclairs and N.Y. cheesecake. Also yum!
Between eating stints we did lots of shopping and walking. We spent most of our time in Soho, Little Italy, and Chinatown. We had fun getting cheapie 30 minutes massages in Chinatown. We also had fun posing with skeletons and mannequins. :)We couldn't resist these matching Monopoly shirts: Luxury Tax, Free Parking, You've Won 2nd Prize in a Beauty Contest, and Community Chest. We are the epitome of mature 26 year olds! Kayla had her first experience with Dean & Deluca where Melanie ate red velvet cupcakes for breakfast. So nutritious.
To further support the fact that most of our trip was about eating, we spent half the time running around to all the places people wanted to eat as proven by our pictures :) Melanie insisted we go to Gray's Papaya for hotdogs and Pina Colada juice.
Enjoying our hot dogs! ......and Kayla insisted we go to "Burgers & Cupcakes" in Chelsea and get these amazing cupcakes.
Next door to "Burgers & Cupcakes" I found the store that was made for me..."Big Booty Bread Company".