After the hour's bus trip back to Manhattan we decided to get takeaway pizza for dinner ... Seemed like a good idea at the time but after one humungous slice each we instantly regretted it and had to throw the rest outside in the bin so it was out of sight and out of smelling distance! Basically it had so much mozzarella it was sickly. Mind you, we slept really well that night so maybe it had a sedative effect!!
Hang on though, could also have been the extra good mood we were put in by an unexpected visitor. We were watching tv and heard a loud meow at the garden door and there was a great big - and very friendly - tabby cat coming a-calling on us. We couldn't believe the confidence of this cat who swaggered into our room, took a look around, smooched our bags then jumped up on Cara's bed and waited to be made a fuss of ...which of course we did and he lapped it all up! We named him Dupes and he was quite happy to stay all night but we only have twin beds so there wasn't room for Dupes and Cara to fit in the same bed and Cara wasn't keen on sleeping on the floor so poor old Dupes got the heave-ho after an hour or so! Turns out Dupes lives next-door but has neighborhood rights to go wherever and do anything!
DAY 7: Oops, slept in again! We seem to have developed the habit of waking late, missing breakfast and heading out at noon then staying up till midnight. Today, we did just this again but set a record of not having a proper meal till 4pm as we were so busy shopping and kept finding cool stores on our way to brunch that it was 4pm before we sat down with food, it's crazy!
Today we had absolutely miserable weather. It rained ALL day! Those high rises New York is so famous for were all hiding behind nasty fat wet clouds!
We walked in the rain for about 6 hours as Polly was on a mission to go to her favourite shoe shop Irregular Choice (www.irregular choice.com) and buy herself a birthday present. It was about 25 blocks south and 5 blocks over. By New York standards that doesn't sound much but with the bad weather and all the shops we stopped at on the way it took FOREVER!
First stop was Three Tarts a gorgeous little bakery around the corner (www.threetartsbakery.com). Cara rated their macarons as being nearly as good as hers so that's high praise indeed! Then we went to Brooklyn Industries store (www.brooklynindustries.com) and the two people working there (sorry we didn't get your names!) became our shopping mentors and gave us heaps of tips for where to go shopping in NYC - we repaid their kindness with offloading some of our Three Tarts goodies and this blog address, ha ha! (hi guys, told you we'd mention you here!)
After that there was an interior-homewares store where we took lots of sneaky photos, then vintage clothing and vintage jewelry stores and ...finally...our goal - Polly's fave shoe store Irregular Choice.
By this time (about 4 hours after setting out) we were soaking wet, Cara had counted 30 people wearing gumboots and Polly had photographed 6 scenes of "rain-roadkill" ie, abandoned broken umbrellas! Polly got a pair of very groovy shoes and we headed back into the rain in search of a subway to get ourselves home pronto.
Phew, thanks for hanging in there and reading our blog. More to come tomorrow. Cara and Polly over and out. Night all!
Location:Woodbury Common shopping day trip and walk to Greenwich Village
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