I arrived at work to chaos…something had happened to one of our permanent staff, Gee. He had been out fo town last week on vacation and a couple people wanted to play a prank on him so they newspaper’d his ENTIRE office. Check it out!

Everything. Every individual book, doodad, pencil, computer mouse, phone, etc…was newspaper’d. There wasn’t one surface that was left in it’s original state! Brilliant! Gee laughed it off too no worries.

So after laughing endlessly, I made myself a tasty bowl of pineapple-blackberry granola with vanilla yogurt. I know…i am so repetitive but it is just that good.  I proceeded that breakfast with a healthy snack….a cadbury creme egg! Okay, totally lying about the healthy part but creme egg’s are just so tasty.

Lunch was a spinach salad with granny smiths and goat cheese but since I was catching up with an old friend, I got distracted and forgot to snap a photo! Oh well. My afternoon snack were some baby carrots and almond butter, follower by three baby  cadbury chocolate eggs. Nyom nyom nyom

That night it was my AMS (the student government at my university) Year End dinner. We had it in the Penthouse (Baaalllllllin’) of a downtown apartment and having it catered by one of the local restaurants, Windmills. It was be-a-uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-tiful.

boss, coworker, boss....penthousing it

For appetizers we were served spanokopita, shrimpie skewers with lime-cilantro dip and a three dip platter (hummus, olive tapenade and sun dried tomato) with flatbread and pita slices.

Dinner was buffet-style with rolls, a green salad, couscous, rice pilaf, curry chicken, dill salmon, mango salsa, grilled asparagus and veggie lasagna. Here is my plate and a sunset!

Dessert was picked up seperately from Pan Chancho. They picked up an assortment including mousse bombs, cappucino brownies, raspberry chocolate squares, crumble squares and citrus cheesecake cups. I opted for a cheesecake cup but it wasn’t that good….it had wierd chunks of dried citrus peel. I ate around them heeee.

It was a beautiful evening all in all. Minimal drama and tons of food – just how I like it! xo

I had such a wonderful long weekend! Saturday was Tay’s first big exam and he thinks it went pretty well. While he was exam-ing, I had myself a little brekkie of a banana with PB (half mighty maple and half dark chocolate dreams). I freaking adore mighty maple with it’s tiny little maple suga’ crystals. Sooooo delicious! I then hit up the gym for some intense cardio.

Tay and I timed it all really well because I showered up and met him downtown at one of my favourite restaurants, Pan Chancho.  He had the “meaty-meat burger” that comes on house made focaccia with frites and garlic aoili.  I ahd the salmon salad made with both fresh and smoked salmon, accompanied by sweet potato fries and lemon aoili.  I ate my baby open faced (too much bread!) and only a few of the fries.

That night for dinner, we had a mish-mash of items but I had a delicious bowl of TJs vegetarian biriyani rice. Made with basmati rice, spices, chickpeas, raisins, peppers and onions, this was one big bowl of carbs that hit the spot just right.

Sunday morning I got up bright and early and hit the grocery store…man, was I running low. Grocery shopping is actually one of my favourite things to do and, left to my own devices, can take ages. I just love it; strtolling up adn down the aisles, looking at new products, thinking about cool combos of items…it’s just the best Anyways, upon returning with my bounty and some treats for Tay, I woke him up adn we had breakfast. He had a delightful bowl of strawberry mini wheats (mmm pink milk) with two croissants that I picked him up at the bakery. I  was seriously missing my pineapple so had my bowl of kashi with pineapple, blackberry’s and plain yogurt. They finally got my brand back – hurrah! I also had the most delectable cup of coffee – dark chocolate coffee with chocolate almond milk. Soooo perfect. I never make my own coffee but I kind of enjoy the whole morning ritual of it.

Not long after, Tay and I hit the gym. After doing mad amounts of cardio for me and weights for him (i am not a weights girl. I build muscle like the Hulk. I know it’s good for you…but even light weights make me look bulky), we decided to use the rowing machine.  It felt good at the time….and good the next day….but am i ever hurting today. After the gym I had a snack of a gala apple, some organic goat cheese and some extra old sharp cheddar. Perfect.

I was also super excited for dinner as I picked up a ton of spinach! For me, dinner was a giant sweet potato with olive oil and S&P, with a side of steamed spinach and goat cheese.  Tay, on the other hand, whipped himself up some pepperoni pizza pops. Sigh, gotta love that boy.  While Tay declined dessert (SAY WHAT? yeah, i know), I made myself a little bowl of heaven.

On melty laughing cow wedge mushed up with a sugar-free chocolate fudge pudding, some graham cracker crumbles and 2 tablespoons of frozen cool whip. Oh. my. goodness.  I wish I could reverse time and eat it again. And then again. And just keep doing that.

Tay and I started watching a new show also – Friday Night Lights. It is fantastic! But, I also love me some sports movies….they are just so motivating and heart wrenching and adrenaline pumping. Love. Anyways, we ended our night with some FNL’s and preparation because Monday morning we were doing Easter surprises for each other! I picked him up so much sugar I wouldn’t be surprised if I rotted all the teeth out of his head

Anyways, Thursday and Friday are going to be combined in to one delightful post because I was great about taking pictures of Thursday….and not so great for Friday (probably my severe case of Lazy-itis).

Thursday brekkie was obviously some sort of pineapple yogurt mixture but I’m not ashamed anymore! it it DELICIOUS, people. Live on, pineapple! Unforunately, I do not have a picture of it in all its glory. I was writing an exam on Thursday at 2:00pm so my eating was all out of whack. One of the delights I had was a mini La Tortilla factory tortilla filled with pumpkin butter and 2 wedges of Laughing cow light cheese, cut up all quesadilla-like. Now, when you take a tiny quesadilla and fill it with that much goop, things get awesome.

I wrote my exam in no time flat. Officially officially done with University. Hurrah! I skipped out of work a smidge early (everyone is having long-weekend fever) and met up with my BF, Sparky, at Starbucks. Here she is with an iced caramel non-fat macchiato and a bliueberry square. And here is my gloriousness pacakaged away in the form of a venti sugar-free vanilla iced coffee with a splash of skim. Ahhhh, warm weather and an iced-coffee. could life get better?

Dinner, unforuntaely, did not get the photo shoot treatment but was takeout sushi from Discover Japan. Tay and I split 3 spicy tuna rolls (6 pieces each) and one dynamite roll.  The night was pretty mellow and I was exhausted. Tay was studying for his exam so we ended our night with a cup of tea and Entourage

Friday was my holiday! Tay tried to wake me to go to the cafeteria at 8:45 but my body was just not having it. Instead, I slept an extra hour (it isssssssssss my day off, after all) and made myself a bowl of oat bran with a smashed banana and a blob of dark chocolate dreams peanut butter. Satisfying, yes, but i was missing my pineapple!

Lunch and dinner are both unpictured. Lunch was a leisurely walk outside with Sparky down to the sleepless goat where I picked up some homemade perogies. Sparky got herself some pesto penne saladvand a peanut butter cookie. Delightful Dinner was some plain ol’ tomato soup with Tay and I spent a good chunk of time hanging out with my housemates. However, one photo that came about these activities was a no-pudge brownie (made with mik adn not yogurt) and some FroYo. When you make no-pudge without the yogurt, it doesn’t poof! It was still yummy…but the batter became really fudgy and chewy and not “true” brownie texture. Oh well, it’s not like that stopped me!

I’m just about to roll out and take a nap. I really upped my anty at the gym this morning and girlfriend is tired.

xo have a wonderful Saturday!

I do have some catching up to do in the food world though!  I feel like I have been mad boring in regrads to breakfasts…i just can’t get enough pineapple. AGAIN with the pineapple, yogurt and cup of Kashi honey almond flax, but this time with the added yumminess of blackberries! hurrah! As I was eating my breakfast, my boss wandered in with a tupperware of cupcakes she baked. They were the barefoot contessa box mix of coconut cupcakes. I cannot…and will not ever resist anything with coconut. The cupcake did not dissapoint, especially as an immediate post-breakfast treat.

I find myself craving odd things lately (and no, I do not have a bun in the oven) so my morning snack was extra, extra sharp white cheddar with a couple prunes. Ooh-la-la, look how fancy on my kleenex “plate”

I was looking forward to lunch on Wednesday as I was meeting my friend Naddy down at the  Sleepless Goat, Kingston’s most fab vegetarian restaurant and worker’s cooperative. people, I kid you not, the best freaking food of life at cheap prices! They have ever-changing art hanging on the walls, board games and books lining the shelves for customer use, unique indie music playing at all times and atleast 30 homemade desserts lining their glass cabinet at any given time. They even make their own fresh bread…loaves of it everyday! It’s very hippie and very tasty.  Anyways, I got myself a bowl of spicy peanut sweet potato soup (the soup changes everyday) with their delicious bread while Naddy got herself a cheddar and sweet potato quesadilla with mango chutney for dippaaaang.

It is always so nice to catch up with my girlfriends and to get a good long walk outside of the office. i was craving something sweet by the timewe got back but, luckily, i had popped in to the health food store next to the Goat and picked up some Medjool dates. These things are HUGE!

The rest of the day was boring and I couldn’t wait to get back to Tay’s and make dinner. We are running mad low on groceries ( and it is exam season-slash- credit card paying season) so we had another classic AJ and Tay dinner. For me, Campbells healthy request minestrone with a wedge of laughing cow light swiss and for Tay, an entire box of KD with ketchup. Winners, I tell ya.

Now, as *blah* as our dinner may have been, check out our ridiculous dessert…and by “our” i mean, MINE (Muahaha).

Vanila Fro-yo, some TJ peanut butter filled pretzels crumbled on top and a little swirl of jamaican butter rum caramel sauce. Heaveeeen ( and very deservable considering the intenes gym sesh i had).

I’ll leave you lovelies with that winnaaaaair

 xo

I have a few catchy-up pictures to post as I have been….lazy. I really have no excuse! I’m writing my last final exam of my university career today and boy, does it feel good. I’m not even dreading the actual exam. What I AM dreading is the sore feeling my hand gets when it cramps up from writing. That’s how I know I have mentally checked out of University: when the physical repercussions of the exam are more daunting than the actual exam itself.

Anyways, the eats! This was two days ago, I suppose….after the brekkie pics:)

So Laaaaaauuuuuuuunch was a delicious “quesadilla” if laughing cow lite swiss cheese and pumpkin butter! I know this sounds like a wierd combo but it is absolutely delicious. On the side I had some sweet orange bell pepper. Now, I said I made those oatmeal bars so I thought I would have one for dizzzuuurt with a steamy cup of tea.

I still don’t like it. I don’t knwo what i did! BAH!

looks good....but is so bad!

Anyways, moving along…after a gym sesh, I made a dinner of an assortment of random pieces. Very much a “me” meal. I had a sliced gala apple, laughing cow cheese, some slices of extra extra old white cheddar (LOVE old cheese), orange bell pepper, some spicy olives and a little side dish of Tay’s spaghetti. Tay, on the otherhand, had the motherload of all spaghettis. He is a stick…so this is like eating air for him.  Observe the contrast

Dessert was, again, frozen yogurt but this time we mixed it up-ish. Tay had his plain and simple. I had mine with pineapple and raspberries. Oh jod…I freaking love pineapple on everything.

We ended the night by watching some episode of entourage. While he amy be brutal, i freaking love Ari Gold. What a way to end the night

See, what really irks me, is that Mother Nature does shiz like this and then everyone thinks Canada is snowy all the time! It’s not true! This is a freak accident, I tell ya!

I started out my day by:

1) shivering

2) deciding I needed a hot cup of tea. Snow makes me crave tea

I got up early and made myself a steamy cup of peaches and cream ceylond tea with a splash of almond milk. I then loaded up an episode of one of my fav. guilty pleasures, Greek, and sat back to welcome in the day. Greek is a show about sororities…and maybe it’s because frats and sororities are banned from many Canadian universities, i have a little soft spot for them.  It’s on the ABC family network…if that gives you ay hint as to the kind of dramz they experience

comfy cozy in a cup.

Anyways, I woke Tay up before I left for his big day of studying and hit the office. I don’t have any exams except for this Thursday but it is my bird course and beyond silly for me to study for. Since I am in fourth year poli sci, we have seminars and massive end of term papers and no exams. hurrah! Anyways, I started out my day with a delicious bowl of chopped fresh pineapple, strawberries (only a few since I am mildly allergic) and 1/2 cup TJs vanilla almond granola and 1/2 cup kashi honey almond flax cereal.

I hope you enjoy my tupperware photos as much as I do Stay tuned for lunch and dinner and have a fabulous day!

xo

I couldn’t take it anymore so I broke down and bought me some pineapple! Breakfast this morning was just what I needed to curb my craving. I had some fresh, chopped up pineapple, vanilla yogurt and 1/2 cup TJs vanilla almond granola and 1/3 cup of Kashi honey flax cereal. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find plain yogurt so breakfast was ridiculously sweet but that’s okay since I have a sweet tooth the size of Canada.

Sexy tupperware dish, I know. Anyways, I’m meeting my housemate somewhere for my lunch break today so stay tuned kids!

Okay, so I met my housemate for lunch at this little vegetarian restuarant called “Lotus Heart Blossom”. Mystical, hey? Inside it is serene…almost too serene….but they do have some great food!

Here is my housie with her meal. It is one of my fav’s t LHB: sage-walnut veggie burger with wedge fries.  With teh burger you choose three toppings ranging from veggie bacon, seared onions, sauteed mushrooms, swiss cheese, garlic goat cheese, etc…PHENOMENAL!

For my lunch, I got a side salad with dressing on the side. Their dressing is a tahini vinagarette delish. In addition, I got me some tempeh cakes with chili jam and mango-coconut chutney! The tempeh is chopped up with ginger adn lemongrass, rolled in coconut and flash fried. They were so delicious….I could have eaten them all but I saved two to have with my dinner instead. We were running out of time (i only had an hour lunch break) so we ended up skipping dessert but I had a few prunes when I got back to the office with a couple figs to follow.

work has been remarkably slow lately but I’m trekking through, dreaming of Europe and the travels to come!I left work and met Tay at our campus gym. I don’t know what it is lately but the gym ahs been PACKED! The way our campus gym works is that you sign up for 25 minute segments on the cardio machines. When i got there (5:15), I would have ended up waiting for 50 minutes before I could have gotten on anything…and there are ALOT of machines.  I lucked out though and my friend ahd to cancel her spots so I got to get in 25 minutes on the elliptical and 25 minutes on a (crappy) treadmill.

Dinner was a fairly random mish mash of things. As you will see, it is very Tay and AJ.  Tay’s masterpiece for supper last night was three MICROWAVED hot dogs with mustard, katchup and spicy peppers. Not doing much better, I was feeling like raw fruits and veggies so I had my remaining two tempeh cakes, sliced orange pepper, a giant apple and two light swiss laughing cow wedges.

Ahhhh, the contrast.

Dessert was the Dessert of the Week (maybe month? let’s wait and see), vanilla fro yo with sprinkles and carob chips. Tay said he wasn’t a fan of the sprinks (blasphemy!) so he had vanilla fro yo with carribean rum caramel sauce. Equally delicious, so we’re still on good terms

We finished off our night with the movie “Blow”. Ever seen it? Starring Johnny Depp, it is about the entrance of cocaine into the US. I don’t know if it was just me…but I thought Depp looked terrible! After the movie, I decided to do some baking. I need to stay busy or i go crazy! I ended up making oatmeal carob coconut squares that smelled delicious but just tasted…..meh. Something is missing and I don’t know what it is. They taste great crumbled up in a bowl of milk, cereal-stylezzzzz…but plain? No. No no no.

Tonight I’m attempting bake night #2. I will either be making VeggieGirl’s peanut butter pretzel blondies or Apple spice muffins. I am way leaning towards the blondies though salty sweet combos rule my life.

Monday mornings are rough…but when they are rainy they get particularly hard to bear.  However, I am glad that it’s raining today and not his past weekend! Why, you ask?

let me tell you.

This past weekend was my first ever Cottage experience in Ontario. Cottages are a HUGE thing out here (I don’t know why…I’m form BC). Anyways, at work, since it is student government and we like to bond, we had what we like to call “Transition Weekend”. Essentially, we go away some where with our new successors and we drink and bond and do silly things like trivia about each other and AMS jeopardy.

On Friday night, I stuck around Kingston and just celebrated the end of my undergrad, getting a new job adn jsut the end of everyone’s school year! It was so fun. I tink I danced at our campus bar for over four hours.  How well? Well, that is questionable. Prior to going out though, Tay and I had a “romantic” dinner of wine, Mr. Noodles for him and baked sweet potatoes and squash with a mound of ketchup for me. We’re classy, we know.

It was a really fun weekend. The cottage was soooo cozy! It had quilts everywhere and big, floofy couches and pillows and huge picture windows. It is definitely a nice litte escape Anyways, I drove up on saturday with my friend Ray and two of our friends. Breakfast was a tasty little starbucks. Behold! A short, double shot, non-fat, sugar-free cinnamon dolce latte. Holla!

It is also a tradition for the incoming positions to cook the outgoing positions dinner. They served us some tasty, fresh bruschetta, tricolor pasta salad and shish kabobs. I opted for a veggie one since I don’t eat chicken. YUM! I also managed to have some delish goat feta crumbles all over everythaaaang.

We partied that night…and oh man, did some of us party hard.  Not pictured here are our delish deserts of oatmeal white chocolate chunk cookies and s’mores.  The next day we all drove back and I went straight to Tay’s and crashed. I was TIRED.  Upon awakening, Tay had the bright idea to go to the cafeteria (he ahs a meal plan and I don’t so he gets me in on his ballin’ guest passes). We gorged. I voluntarily did not put a picture because it was a massacre.  Luckily, I gorged on fruits and vegetables since it is unlimited in the cafeteria! Tay, on the otherhand, gorged on ice cream, omlettes, pizza and fruit. Needless to say, he was way more stuffed than I was.

While we had ambitions to go to the gym, it ended up being a walk by the lake and then us passing out for a three hour nap. Oh well! Waking up, we STILL had food on the mind and went grocery shopping to pick up dinner.  Not in the mood to cook (surprise, surprise) we tried to pick up some instant foods.

Manly man with his sub and BBQ sauce stain

Tay got himself potato salad and a sub. vom. For some reason, I detest sub sandwiches. I can’t pinpoint it but i loathe them and all affiliates (ie. Subway).  I was craving Indian food so I picked up an Amy’s instant dinner of Mattar Paneer and basmati rice. It looks a little …..mushy gross? is that the right word? But it tasted great! It definitely curbed my indian food craving.

Dessert was also a mad craving I have been having lately: vanilla frozen yogurt with sprinkles! I generally don’t even like sprinkles so this was totally out of the blue. Regardless, it was delicious. I savoured that baby while I read some blogs and waited for Tay to finish correcting the edit’s I did on his massive paper.

We ended the night with Seven Pounds, a Will Smith movie. I thought it was pretty good…..up until the ending. I can’t stand it when decent movie’s have terrible endings either way, i had a lovely sunday and am looking forward to the rest of the week.

xo

Also.

MAJOR NEWS.

I got a job (as you all know) but the start date was SUPER soon (April 27th) two days after my current job contract ends. Well, that’s all fine and dandy but Tay and I had planned to go to Europe for the month of May. I jsut found out that I can get my start date extended to JUNE 11th (after my convocation ceremony) and I will not be travelling EUROPE for the month of May. HOLLA!

Now, some fun eats.

Breakfast has been an exploration through oat bran lately. People have crooned about how creamy it is…but i don’t get it. Am i missing something here? Anyways, Oat Bran #1 made with almond milk, a scoop of dark chocolate dreams adn vanilla almond granola sprinkled on top. Oat Bran #2 made with rice milk, a mooooshy banana and a sprinkle of pumpkin pie spice.  Now, don’t get me wrong! They were delicious but I think I prefer overnight oats. Myeh, each to their own!

I am a soup fiend, by the by.  In my office, the people I manage have all become really close and are incredibly sweet. One of my chairs being SO sweet, Phe, prepared me a big pot of Matzo ball soup. It was freezing that day so this was like a hug for my belly.

Now. Prepare yourself for the following delectable dinners!

SUSHI! The best sushi restaurant in Kingston, Discover Japan, is me and Tay’s go to take-out place.  We were both feeling super lazy and decided to go for some sushi. I got myself a dynamite roll and a Kamikaze roll (spicy tuna with some crispy tempura bits) while Tay got a Kamikaze roll, a california roll and a GIANT tempura vegetable roll.  I freaking adore the sush.

Dinner number two shall be titled “Tay’s Adventures in Tofu”. Since he’s a meat eater and I am not….i tend to make him eat various things (tempeh, tofu, TVP…). Anyways, Monday night I wanted to play with some TJ baged rice so we decided to make the jambalaya rice. Observe the tastiness!

TJs jambalaya rice, roasted brusselly sprouts with salt and pepper and delectably grilled tofu with Annie’s BBQ sauce. All Tay kept saying was “This actually tastes like meat! Oh man, wow! This tastes just like meat!”. Success! The meatatarian eats tofu!

Tonight I have a few meetings and then potentially a “floor reunion” with my friends from residence in first year at University. At Queen’s, you only live in residence for the first year and the following three years you live in houses. Hopefully my meeting finishes quickly so I can catch up with some of my old lovers!

xo have a great day!

prepare yourselves for this epic novel of NYC.

wooooow. what a beautiful, lively, colorful city. That was only my second time there….the first time being with my mom in grade 10 because we won a trip to NYC to see  – wait for it – a NELLY concert. Yeap. straight thugging for life. The reason why Tay and I went is because we wanted to go on a little getaway for our Burthday’s rather than buy each other gifts. Soooo when cheap tickets to NYC via bus presented themselves, we couldn’t resist!

Anyways, what a whirlwind weekend! Tay and I left Thursday night to get to Toronto because our bus left at 8:45 AM on Friday.  We went to bed early but were way to excited.  Friday morning we got up with plenty of time and headed to the bus station. Just to be safe, Tay went and asked the ticket concessioner if our eletronic tickets were okay. The response was “Yes – but you do know the bus doesn’t leave from here, right?”.

PANIC.

Our bus actually left from a hotel (wierd.) so we hopped in a cab and booked it to the Royal York. We made it with a few minutes to spare but my heart seriously stopped.  Also I had not eaten anything substantial so your girl here was mighty cranky.  When we got on the bus, it was a pleasant surprise to see electronic plugs, FREE wireless and movie screens. Yes, on a bus! For a 10 hour ride it was quite enjoyable as they played the movies “The Pursuit of Happyness”, “Radio” and “Deja Vu”. We also didn’t stop anywhere to eat really (a gas station and greasy burger thing) so here is what Tay and I subsided on for 10 hours

Turtle chex mix for me and a spicy pepperoni stick for him. He also had a burger…..mmm healthy. I really should have thought ahead and packed snacks but it is Essay Season at school and I just was so rushed! Anyways, heading in to the city was amazing. It was HUGE! I mean,  I have seen tall buildings….but Wow.  When we arrived, the first thing we did was get a soft, street pretzel with spicy mustard. HEAVEN! I live for soft pretzels We meandered along Madison Square and then headed to our hotel on fancy shmancy Wall St. ( we SO lucked out! We bid for our hotel online and got it for half the price it would have been!).  That night, Tay and I hit up one of the city’s oldest jazz bars, Blue Note, and enjoyed some yummy drinks and sultry sounds.

Afterwards, Tay was starving so we hit up PAPAYA DOG (does anyone watch ‘How I Met Your Mother’? This was on their show) where he claims to have had the best corndog EVER. Later than night (2 am?) we ordered room service: cheese pizza for him and yogurt and granola for me.

Saturday. Essentially our ONLY day here since we were back on the bus tomorrow. We got up nice and early and cruised down Wall St. Tay is an econ major who loves anything regarding finance and stocks so this was his HEAVEN! We saw the NY stock exchange and he touched/rode the golden bull. Look how happy he is! Afterwards, we stopped in to Au Bon Pain for some delectable goodies. I opted for a pecan roll (I’m on vacation!) and Tay gorged on three pastries. I was unable to grab a picture because he seemed to inhale them at an unhuman-like pace.

Now, we popped in for a grab-and-go breakfast because we were on our way to the Staten Island ferry. We wanted to see the lovely lady liberty and do it at a student-friendly rate so we just rode the ferry there and back to get 39759032u903252 photos of her.  Right after that, we hit up Canal St. where Tay got himself some fake goods and I bought us (and my brother) an “I <3 NY” t-shirt. Cheesy, yes, but we HAD to!Leaving Canal St. I saw the infamous Tasti-D-Lite and had to stop for a cup of Butter Praline, 100 calorie soft serve. Deeeeelicious

The next stop on our day of craziness was TRADER JOE’S! Hollaaaaaa – we don’t have a TJs in Canada so this was one of my number one places to hit up.  Now, this TJ’s was insane; the line up went through the entire store! I was really sad because there were so many fresh and frozen things I wanted to buy but couldn’t because we were trekking all over the city that day and were going to be spending all day Sunday on a bus. Alas, it was still glorious.

Observe! Wine (yum), microwavable jambalaya, biryani rice and whole grain pilaf, dark chocolate almond florentines,  dijon mustard, eggplant spread, candied ginger, vanilla almond granola (Coffeetalk said this tasted like cake batter…and omg was she right!), PB filled pretzels, whole wheat pretzels (for the mustard of course!),chili lime cashews and lastly PURE bars, Z Bars and Kind bars (I CANNOT FIND THESE IN CANADA! I WAS ECSTATIC!).

After TJs, we hit up Times Square and explored. We also saw the Naked Cowboy! After that we trekked it to NBC tudios to try adn get a tour but they were full until Sunday afternoon. Across the way was the Museum of Modern Art, which I was dying to go to, so we spent a good few hours there. One of my favourite pieces was a giant lump titled “Floor Cake”. Yum.

Leaving MoMA, we meandered down Fifth Ave and then somewhere along the lines headed up to Central park and the Apple store, made entirely out fo glass. After being touristy, we headed down Fifth Ave. Holy. Moly. Talk about Baller. Tay and I were starting  to get hungry so we stopped to random gentlemen in the street and asked for a recommendation on where to go. They suggested a little place off fifth ave called “Atria”. I guess looks of “OH MY we cannot afford that” ran across our faces so they quickly told us about a prix fix menu and how sweet all the staff there were. Tay and I decided to just go and check it out. Arriving there, it looked tiny. The hostesses were the sweetest and most genuine girls I have come across at a restaurant. They were beyond friendly and so excited that it was essentially our only day in NY and we decided to eat there. Leading us to the dining room , we headed down to flights of stairs where the hostess said “We’re not taking you to the basement, don’t worry. Wait until you see this” and she brings us in to a dining room that has a four story glass Atrium! It was honestly so beautiful but Tay and I felt underdressed. She sadi not to worry adn jsut enjoy ourselves. The food was incredible and the service was even better! I unfortunately, didn’t get good photos of the food as I felt a little shy taking flashy photos in there. Guys, it was GORGEOUS. The kitchen event sent out complimentary desserts on top of our other desserts we had ordered because the hostesses said to treat us well.  Here is a picture of the atrium

I highly recommend this restaurant for anyone travelling to NYC. inner ended at approximately 8:07 so Tay and I bounded towards a cab adn tried to see if we could buy tickets to Stomp. No dice…but rather than get upset, we trekked back to Times Square to see it at night!

Beauty! So lively…even so late! we explored the M&M store (M&Ms in all colors…marroon, grey, beige, light lavendar….madness!), the Hershey’s store and then stumbled in to a comedy show at HA comedy club. It was HILARIOUS! Raunchy…but hilarious. The headliner was actually the actor/comedian from 30 Rock called Grizz. He is a part of Tracy Jordan’s entourag on the show…man, i love 30 Rock.

After the show, we got back to our hotel and just crashed. We had to be up early! The 10 hour bus ride back wasn’t too bad and in between the NY to Toronto bus ride and the Toronto to Kingston bus ride, we ate at a restaurant called spring rolls where we enjoyed a mango-strawberry smoothie, thai iced tea, veggie springrolls and some pad thai. delish!

Sorry for this monster of a post! I was just trying to get it all out I truly enjoyed NY and cannot wait to go back.