{"id":219,"date":"2005-08-10T20:13:09","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T04:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=219"},"modified":"2005-08-10T20:13:09","modified_gmt":"2005-08-11T04:13:09","slug":"taking-a-bite-out-of-the-big-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"Taking a bite out of the Big Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S + I made a trip out to NYC for a long weekend. S was there for business Thursday and Friday; I was there for the shopping. (Isn\u2019t that always the case?)<\/p>\n<p>It was Sylvain\u2019s first time to NYC, my third. (We didn\u2019t catch any shows, though Spamalot looked like it would be lots of fun!)<\/p>\n<p>Highlights included:<\/p>\n<p>*Constant jaw dropping at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bergdorfgoodman.com\/\">Bergdorf<\/a> with my mom\u2019s friend Marie<\/p>\n<p>*Shopping on 5th, Park and <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=57th+avenue+and+Madison+Avenue,+New+York,+NY&#038;spn=0.003775,0.007318&#038;t=k&#038;hl=en\">Madison<\/a> Avenues<\/p>\n<p>*Being bombarded by perfume \/ cologne boys and girls to try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sephora.com\/browse\/product.jhtml?id=P90001\">Gucci Envy<\/a>, SJP\u2019s new <a href=\"http:\/\/store.nordstrom.com\/product\/product.asp?styleid=2868479&#038;category=2377897~2377898~2384319~2384512&#038;PrevStyleID=2868631&#038;NextStyleID=2868620\">scent<\/a> and Courduroy at Macy\u2019s and Bloomies<\/p>\n<p>*Dinner with S and his coworkers at <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.citysearch.com\/profile\/41674712\/new_york_ny\/nonna.html\">Nonna<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycvisit.com\/content\/index.cfm?pagePkey=448\">UWS<\/a>: great Italian eats, great company, lots of wine and lots of limoncello make for a F-U-N evening<\/p>\n<p>*Catching a jazz band at Dizzy\u2019s at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timewarner.com\/corp\/aboutus\/twcenter\/\">Time Warner Center<\/a> at Columbus Circle<\/p>\n<p>*Rockefeller Center, coffee beans at Dean &#038; Deluca, Bryant Park and Grand Central Station<\/p>\n<p>*Hanging out in Washington Square<\/p>\n<p>*Strolling thru the Village \/ NYU and more shopping in SoHo<\/p>\n<p>*Fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lihuanyc.com\/\">Korean food<\/a> in Little Italy<\/p>\n<p>*Even more fabulous Chocolate and Hazelnut gelato in Little Italy and drooling over the various biscottis and cannolis in the pastry shops<\/p>\n<p>*A <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.citysearch.com\/profile\/7168937\/new_york_ny\/h_h_bagels.html\">Bagel<\/a> Sunday brunch in the Park<\/p>\n<p>*Visit to the WTC site \u2013 way intense, I actually shed a tear or two<\/p>\n<p>*Chilling in Battery Park city with views of Lady Liberty<\/p>\n<p>*Hot Pastrami sandwiches at <a title=\"Carnegie Deli home\" href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegiedeli.com\/\">Carnegie Deli<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whew! That was a lot for the long weekend. (Alas, no celebrity sightings this time.) All this in 90+ degree and humid weather &#8211; ugh. We&#8217;re glad to be home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S + I made a trip out to NYC for a long weekend. S was there for business Thursday and Friday; I was there for the shopping. (Isn\u2019t that always the case?) It was Sylvain\u2019s first time to NYC, my third. (We didn\u2019t catch any shows, though Spamalot looked like it would be lots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}