Cupcakes with Camille, A work in progress... my internet is HORRIBLE!

This picture is for MaryAnne, we were walking by and saw an advertisement for the musical 9 to 5, and guess who is in it! Look closely at the picture I took it just for you. 

Cupcakes! Yes I know I look creepy in this picture, kinda like an evil simpsons character but this is the best you are going to get
Cupcakes with Camille! Let's just say I can make better cupcakes than they can. 

The cupcakes at Crumbs. 
The Apple Store on 5th avenue... Pete you would have been in heaven. 
Washington Square Park arch... does anyone recognize this from friends? if you dont then you need to watch more tv. 

Camille (and  Aaron) came to visit us in NYC this weekend… yes we are lucky. They took the bus from Baltimore to NYC… which sounds… well it sounds like a TON (or not) of fun, they came in a little late- I guess they got a late start (bus delay) and we met them around 11pm in Chinatown, we still aren’t sure the Chinatown at night idea was our best yet but anyway. So we picked them and dropped them off at Wall Street, nothing too thrilling there. The next day (Saturday) we met up for a fun filled day of NYC adventures… sadly it was raining and muggy and well really not the most pleasant weather. We started out our day by going to a little French restaurant in Greenwich Village , the place was extra cute, and the food looked good but there… wasn’t a lot of it. Sadly we did not take a picture of our food but we decided if that is what Pete and Mark have been surviving on all summer we are so sorry! We got little sandwiches- like sandwich’s on a biscuit for $9! No wonder Europeans are skinny. Anyway so after our breakfast of champions we headed off to see the sights. We stopped at Washington Square park (the arch used on friends) and took a few pictures, then headed off to 5^th Avenue to see the Abercrombie models- really you just have to see it to believe it since it is so ridiculous. After a quick stop into FAO Swartz (Aaron and Camille played on the BIG piano) and a peek into the Apple store- for Pete and Alisha, we headed to Times Square for some lunch and theater tickets. We ate some lunch at Carmines… which I would higly recommend. It is a family style Italian resturant- the portions are insanely huge- Camille can confirm- we had 6 people and it was painful to finish two entrees with no appetizers or salads- we tried to take a picture for you pete but at the last minute forgot, it was good though, anyone coming to NYC should make a pit stop there. Okay then what? Well then we wondered around Times Square and headed to Crumbs bake shop for you guessed it…. Cupcakes with Camille. Crumbs is supposed to be famous in New York and to be fair the cupcakes look amazing, they were good but not that good. Anyway I think I can make better cupcakes so it looks like I will be experimenting in the fall, Camille has graciously offered to help out and I am sure we can use some testers but we are thinking something along the chocolate raspberry lines. Anyway we went to a nearby park to eat out cupcakes and landed in the middle of Pride week here in NYC. It was…. A little different than provo. After the cupcakes we were stuffed so we decided to search for theater tickets to burn off some calories, we looked in both times square and the south street sea port and didn’t find any tickets for a student budget so we opted to stand in line for the wicked lottery… we didn’t win… which was sad but expected. After all that walking and standing we decided we needed a break… and a popsicle so we headed to little Korea for a melon popsicle- Camille will have to add more info about those since I had never had them, and a place to rest. We headed to Macy’s on 34^th street- you know like Miracle on 34^th street- and then up to the couches section where we found a lovely plush place to rest… we stayed for about an hour and then went searching for Camille’s falafel. We ended up skipping the falafel but heading to an all night Halal food stand… which like most Halal food in the city was delicious. We decided they need to put one in provo right by the RB- Pete even you would be converted. After eating our food in the rain we decided it was time to call it quits and head home.

Sunday was less adventurous. We headed to church, then to get some falafels, and then to Central Park. We ended the adventure with a  quick trip to Shack Shake- a local hamburger place that claims to be better than In-N-Out. Thanks Camille and Aaron for making the trip it was fun to see you guys!*

No worries Camille will add more details of the trip- I just cant remember what else we did.