Spontaneity

So last Sunday Regina and I decided that there could be nothing better to do than take a completely unplanned, spontaneous trip into Manhattan. We had no unfinished homework for the following day (although we probably could have stayed at school and gotten ahead on homework or done some studying for the tests we had during the week) so with nothing pressing to do we took the 9:28am train into the city, so we could have as much possible time there as possible.

We had absolutely no plans for the day, which is very unlike Regina and me. Pretty much we walked up to Times Square, saw Bryant Park in disarray as they prepared to install the annual ice rink, and then decided since neither of us had ever been to SoHo or NYU, and Regina had never been to Chinatown (she is from Lancaster, PA), we would make our way down there.

Pretty much all day we just walked and went into little shops or stopped to take pictures (Regina agreeing to model for me). Regina and I only get to talk during our 2 1/2 hour class once a week, which by the way is the easiest class ever, and the best thing we have gotten out out it so far is a list of hilarious quotes from our teacher, so we found out that we are actually very alike (I mean, how many people share orange as a favorite color, and want to have an orange fall wedding?).

To get to Soho from Penn you have to walk through the Flatiron district, so this was my first time ever seeing the Flatiron building!!

We had lunch there, NYC hotdogs! This was Regina's first!

Probably the highlight of our day is when I talked Regina into going into Anthropologie in SoHo, just to look around. Obviously we can't afford anything there, but everything is just so pretty we had to take a peek. We were very excited to find a few dresses and shirts for the low low price of $19.99. After trying them on in the dressing room that smelled like the pumpkin spice candles that used to be lit anytime I was in my bedroom at home during the months of October-February, we both decided on buy the same one.

Because people, when you find a dress that looks good on you for $19.99 at Anthropologie, you don't ask questions, you just buy it.

The dress is a strapless, knee length salmon color dress that we are either just going to wear in the summer time, or dress up with cardigans and leggings for fall.

We then walked around NYU, which was very sad because it is just way too expensive of a school for us to afford. Regina, a performer, was extremely distraught when we walked near a building that turned out to be Tisch. I had to get her away from there, fast.

We battled our way through Chinatown, where we each bought a scarf, and then headed back to SoHo and had, according to Zagat, New York City's best icecream! Pumpkin flavor for me, chocolate for Regina, and yes, it was VERY good!

I miss ice cream.

On our way back we found a wonderful wall of graffiti, and Regina just had to pose in front of it!

We then walked all the way back to Penn station.

That is right, we WALKED back to 34th street! We took no cabs, no subways, no buses this entire day.

We estimated, including walking to and from the train-station, that we walked 150 blocks in that one day.

We had dinner at TGI Fridays near Penn, and we downed our water very, very fast, and we were very annoyed when our waiter didn't come by to bring us more. And he KNEW we had just walked 150 blocks, because we informed him of it, and yet still, no water.

I wouldn't have been surprised if when I took my boots off that night, that my feet were bleeding, because that is sure what they felt like.

Here is an estimate of where we walked, the red line is before we got to Chinatown, the blue line is on our way back.

My facebook status that night: Over 150 New York City blocks walked, 2 matching Anthropologie dresses, 2 scoops of New York's best ice cream, 6 aspirins, 4 very sore feet, and 1 amazing day.