today was an AWESOME day.

wow, have you ever had one of those days that just keeps getting better and BETTER? well, that was my day, today.

so, i have been meaning to a) walk around nyc because i havent done that since i moved here, and b) find good coffee. so, yesterday, i decided that today i was going to do both of those things, and i invited casey along with me. last night i went onto city search and found grey dog cafe, that purports to be some of the best coffee in nyc. casey wanted to go at 730 (hahahahahahaahaha, no.) and i wanted to go around 1130, adn so we settled on 1030.

i got down there a little early, and he wasnt ready, so i half-slept on his recliner for about 10 minutes til we were ready to go. it wasnt really the best way to start off a day. i was tired and a little crabby. we get off the subway at west 4th, and im still a little out of it, yearning for some coffee. we walk in a circle before we find the place, and as soon as we walk in, the intoxicating aroma of coffee washes over us, and i am already feeling a little better. i order a large cup of house coffee and a toasted whole wheat bagel with cream cheese. now, the coffee wasnt amazing (it wasnt bad, it just wasnt what i was hoping for) but the bagel was pretty good! AND they put on a minimal amount of cream cheese, which thrilled me. i hate gobs and gobs of it on my bagels. and, teh bagel itself was really realy good. yumm....
so, casey and i sat around there for a while. we had each brought books to read from school, so we did that for about 10 minutes, adn then talked for a while. then we decided to walk for a wihle.

we left grey dog, then started aimlessly walking until we hit the water on the west side (hudson river), and we walked along that for a little bit. then we came to christopher street, and decided to walk down there. we came across a brooklyn industries store, that was having a "mega sale" so we went in. i didnt like anything on sale (expensive if not on sale!!), but casey found a really nice pea coat. and since he had lost his other pea coat (dont ask), he went ahead and bought it. $80!! super cheap! and it was really nice, and lined, and there was a little padding in it for warmth. AWESOME.

so, then we continue walking and decide, hey, let's go to washington square park! so, we try to do that. all of a sudden, we realize that we must be going in the really wrong direction. we notice this because we walked almost all the way back to the water. which means hte park was somewhere behind us. oops. so, we turn around and walk down bleeker.

side note 1: last night, as i was messing around on citysearch.com trying to find good coffee, i stumbled across magnolia's, which i had heard of before, but had forgotten about. this bakery has world-famous cupcakes. in fact, i have never been there before, but every time i talk to someone they are always talking about the huge lines out the door. i had asked casey about it, and he said he had never even heard of it, so i told him all about it.

back to the story. there we are walking down bleeker, and casey goes, hey, isnt that the bakery you were telling me about? i look up, and there is magnolia!!! and the best part about it? there was NO LINE. we walked in, grabbed our cupcakes, paid, and left. AWESOME.

we continue walking, and we stumble across washington square park! yeah!! we made it! and by sheer accident, too!!

so, as we are walking into the park, we notice some plain-clothes cops arresting some guy. we avoided that. but as we continue walking, we see more plain-clothes cops arresting another guy, and THIS guy is being forced to spit stuff out of his mouth. yeah, it was some huge crazy drug-bust going down. it was AWESOME. we were just a little sad we had missed the chasing part (we heard from someone else sitting in the park that there had been a chase...).

side note 2: before we had gotten to the park, i had mentioned to casey that i was bummed that i have been here now for almost 6 months, and i have yet to see a famous person walking down the street.

so, we continue wakling and are passing a dog run, and im lookin at all the dogs and thinking how cute they are. and then i look up at this woman who is leaving teh run wiht her dog. and i stop. i know, its pathetic, but i was just STARING at her. you always think that when you see someone they're not going to look like they do in the movies. and there is no way that they are going to be as beautiful in person as they are in the movies.

so, who did i see? Jean from X-men (pheonix!!). and if you dont know who im talking about, GO WATCH TEH MOVIE. it was freaking AWESOME. she is unbelievably gorgeous! and i was SO EXCITED!!!!! oh my god, i almost died. i freaking love x-men. i feel like the biggest tool gushing about seeing someone famous, but my GOD it was AWESOME. now, the even more awesomeest (thats right, its a word) thing about it is, when i got home today, i looked her up so i could post a link to her picture so you all could see her. and when i clicked on the first picture, she was not only with her dog that we saw her with today, she was wearing THIS EXACT OUTFIT! insane! AWESOME!!! and this picture just doesnt even do her justice. she is an amazingly beautiful woman.....i was SO EXCITED! i called three people (none of you picked up by the way!!).

so, after she left, we had our cupcakes. yum!! AWESOME. and then we watched the dogs for a while, and i fell in love with this cute little dog. guess what it was called. a PUGGLE! its a pug/beagle mix. oh my god the cutest thing i have ever seen in my LIFE!! AWESOME! now, teh one i saw was a little older, and a bit more pug. i almost died....

so, then we continued walking and we went to the gap, where i bought two scarves for $6/each, and then we went to old navy where i bought three shirts that i had been wanting for about three months now for $3.50/each! AND the warmest scarf ever for......NINETY SEVEN CENTS!! AWESOME!!!!!!!!

all in all, it was an amazing day. this is one of the reasons why i love new york. yes, i suppose you could have this same experience in la or sf, but there's just something about new york...my god i love it here.

and we saw jean!!!!!!


hope you had a good day, too!