Little Girl, Big City: Tourist week! ... kind of.

After a long internal battle of whether to write a summary of my year thus far, what I've learned my first year of college, or to just post about my week, I came to no conclusion. So... this post will probably be a rambling tangent complete with pictures, little tidbits of my beloved NYC, inspiring quotes, summaries, and opinions. But it is time to blog again, so here I go.

Our initial plan for the week (or rather, 3 days) after finals was to be tourists! We were going to call it tourist week and take a lot of pictures. We also were going to look lost, ask for directions, stop in the middle of the sidewalk and look up, and go to Shake Shack, take cheesy Times Square photos and the like. Well, we kind of became ridiculously busy practicing for Grad Alley, so we just spent the last few days in the city enjoying the time we had free.

After our last final, Lauren and I headed down to SoHo to get some tasty Georgetown Cupcakes. (free, I might add) and took a walk around, window shopping and keeping it classy as always. If you haven't had a Georgetown cupcake, you have not lived.

I mean, really. Just look at these babies.

I had the Hummingbird cupcake. Hummingbirds remind me of both my grandmother, and my mother. So it was an appropriate cupcake for Mother's Day weekend. They are truly the most incredible women in my life. I will always look up to their strength, independence, and determination, and to their feisty spirits and loving arms. When I was young, we used to spend a week or so every summer at my grandparent's lake. In their dining room was a window seat just behind the kitchen table, and it looked out to the deck where the bird feeders were. I remember sitting each morning at breakfast, waiting to see the hummingbirds come to the feeders. Hummingbirds were my favorite because they were so beautiful. I loved how fast their wings moved.They were always moving, never slowing down, never stopping for anyone or anything. I mean, they even ate flapping their wings a mile a minute.
I suppose they reminded me of my grandmother's spirit, the same spirit that my mother held in her - always moving, stubborn and feisty. Regardless, they have always held a large amount of appeal to me. On days like today, gloomy and overcast, I find myself yearning for the lake - warm and sunny weather, dipping my toes in the water.

I see this building every day on my walk to work. I love it, and so I finally decided to take a picture of it. It's one of my favorite buildings in New York.

David and I spent dinner together last night, as our last "hurrah" in New York together. He has a full three weeks of school left. Lucky fella. My ride home from the Upper West Side last night was not exactly adventurous. Although it took me 3 trains to get there, I settled on only one transfer on the way home. Stupid B trains. They're always out of service. But... I couldn't help myself at Times Square. Pictures just had to happen.

Which brings me to the rest of my weekend. Filled with Grad Alley pactice, storage pickup, throwing so many things away and packing for Idaho... it managed to be a crazy weekend. Andrew and Bonnie are in the city this week, so I had the pleasure of meeting up with them on Saturday night, which was incredible. We met at Dolce Vizio, a Tiramisu shop and then browsed the shops of SoHo. While I was waiting to meet them, I went into the World's Smallest Store. And I met this guy! He said that there was only one thing in the shop that would interest me, and he found it. It was a necklace made out of a vintage typewriter key. He asked me why I was dressed all vintage-like. (I was wearing waist high polka dotted pants and a lacy blouse and pearl earrings.) But then he said, "No wait. I know.... You're an actress, aren't you? You're a performer?" And I laughed and said yes. Although that doesn't really explain why I like vintage clothes...

We had dinner reservations at Hangawi, the most incredible vegetarian Korean restaurant. Afterward, we went to see Sleep No More (for my second time... and since I've already blogged about it, I won't give you another summary). Needless to say, I thought it was great, but I did find that I enjoyed it much more the first time.

Sleep No More

Tonight Lauren, Juliet and I headed to Chinatown to get some dumplings for dinner. Mmm. And then we headed to Little Italy to finish off the night with a Cannoli! After our tourist-y dinner, I went to see the Avengers with Steph. Very entertaining. :) And since it's ridiculously late and I have to wake up in 5 hours... I leave you with this. My final New York picture, to celebrate my successful first year living in the Empire State...