the city that never sleeps: Let's wander.

Weekend time! When I got off work Friday night and walked to the subway, it wasn't raining. I then proceeded to miss my stop because I was totally zoned out, and ended up in Queens. When I got out of the train at the Queens stop, water was basically pouring through the concrete roof. It was quite strange. Obviously it had started to rain. But the time I hopped on the next downtown train and got off at my stop, I could see it for myself. It was pouring. And I didn't have an umbrella. Why would I have thought to bring one on a 90 degree day? Go figure. After I got my drenched self home and dried off, me and Lindsay went and got pizza. And I left my keys in the apartment. It caused a lot of stress during dinner. I was so mad at myself. I didn't want to pay $240 for each key...
We ate at a cute little place right next to our apartment. SOO yummy. My first pizza since I've been here! So greasy, huge, and perfect. I talked to the doorman when we finished and he used the spare set to let me in! Bless his soul. I hadn't LOST the keys... they were just in the apartment. :) No fine for me for that. :)
Lindsay decided to stay over at my place tonight since Dani was gone visiting Mary in New Jersey and her apartment is always extremely hot. Her cooler doesn't work - for shame. We just hung out at my place for the rest of the night since it was still drizzling outside and we didn't really want to get wet. We stayed up way too late talking about things we can't even remember now. Thank goodness we slept in till 10 to make up for it.
We didn't really have any huge plans for Saturday. We thought we'd just walk through central park and kind of make plans as we went. And we knew at some point today we wanted to get a Johnny Rocket shake because they are super delicious.
We started wandering at about 86th street by the reservoir and just slowly meandered our way down. We found another cute little reservoir, a castle, a lovely creek that made you feel like you were in the mountains, a lady who was hoola hooping while playing the violin (we found her twice actually), and BALTO! We looked specifically for him because he's a cutie. And we found a black squirrel! Neatest. Find. Ever.
We'd take multiple breaks just to sit and people watch because we're creeps and love to do that.
After about 4 hours of central parking, we looked for more pizza. We ate at a Sbarro on 5th and then walked over to Johnny Rockets for a shake. It took the waitress like an hour to finally give us our bill... I swear she forgot we were even there.
Following that, we wandered a bit around midtown/east because we love exploring and looking at the architecture. We wanted to walk to the base of the Chrysler Building. Very Neat! We then wandered to Times Square to look in the Disney store at all of the Brave merchandise. We wanted just about every stuffed animal in the store. To end the night we sat on the red steps again because they're awesome.

We decided to take the subway home because we were so pooped from walking all day. BLAH. I was tired. And for whatever reason the 49th street subway stop smells like sewage. Smelliest stop ever.
Bed time.