NYC – Day 3

After starting the day with just a half a cookie and some tea for breakfast yesterday, we headed out to explore. 

Kat’s Delicatession was on our list and we wanted to make sure we were good and hungry when we got there so we didn’t do our usual oatmeal and yogurt for breakfast. 

New York City! There is something to see on every corner! It’s nuts.

We should have tried to get tickets to The Tonight Show. It never even occurred to us! But hey, at least we got to walk by the entrance. 😉

We saw someone come out of a store with a baby crib. I guess the plan was to wheel it home? To their apartment? 

I hope there was an elevator.

We also happened upon a farmer’s market. I LOVE farmer’s markets and so does Jen so we stopped and had a look around. 

Too bad our room didn’t come with a mini kitchen or anything otherwise we might have loaded up on fresh veggies and who knows what else. There were probably half a dozen vendors with stands that were selling just apples and cider. 

Everything you could imagine was there. A dozen large eggs were going for $8 a dozen.

4″ pots of herbs were $6 each. Which seemed about right. They’re between $4-$5 a the local nursery.

Fat carrots were $2.50 a pound. That seemed a little high. But then again have you ever tried growing carrots? 

I paid $15 for a small cherry pie. 

Pink ranunculus are one of my favorite flowers! 

Tulips were $14 a bunch. I think I’m going to sell mine for $10 a jar again this year. 

Madewell. Everything in the store window looked lovely. I’ll have to look it up when I get home. 

We saw a dumpster with a dozen mattresses in it.  Lamps and other things too. I wonder if it’s illegal to dumpster dive in NYC? 

I kind of wanted to see what else was in there but Jen said there was a high possibility the dumpster was full of rats. {We saw a giant one in the subway by the way.}

It was creepy.

We made it to Katz’s! We split a pastrami sandwich and matzoh ball soup. It was our first time trying matzoh ball soup and we both liked it.

Does anyone have a good recipe for it? 

The pickles were delicious and so was the sauerkraut. 🙂 We both said we’d probably eat there at least once a month if we lived in NYC.

Seriously. Look at that beautiful sandwich! It’s a good thing the walk there was 3.5 miles. 😉

After the pastrami sandwich and Matzoh ball soup, we went to the churro place a few doors down for dessert. 

It was another winner.

After filling up we made our way to the 9/11 memorial and it was incredibly moving. 

We did not go into the museum or visit the One World Observatory. I couldn’t do it. It was just too much sadness for me. I’m glad we spent some time at the memorial though.

Yesterday we walked 15 miles. We left about 8:30 and didn’t get back until just before dark. By the time we finally called it a day, we had racked up nearly 34,000 steps.

A bunch of walking fools. That’s what we are. If this doesn’t count as training for a half marathon, I don’t know what does. 

Today is our last full day in NYC. I hope it’s a good one. 🙂 

~Mavis