A day full of markets

Still a lot of exploring around the city these last few days. And I'm loving every minute of it.

Yesterday Lauren, her friend from work (also named Lauren) and I explored all of the flea markets we could find. We started off in the Meatpacking District on the West Side. We found this really cool vintage market (full of clothes and antiques) scrunched in between some side-streets and alleyways. It was unbelievably hot outside (pretty much like every other day this summer), so most of the time I was looking for a tent to browse through to escape the hot summer sun.

To market, to market

Both of the Laurens were finding things left and right, while I was failing miserably. I've realized just HOW PICKY I am when it comes to shopping. Especially at these markets. Everything I found I talked myself out of buying. I guess that is good for other ventures, but not when you go marketing for eight hours straight and have nothing to show for it!

For lunch we found this really cute place just off Bleeker Street. It was jam-packed with people, so we were obviously very intrigued as to what was so good about this place. We found out right when we sat down. There were unlimited mimosas + your entree for $16.95. GREAT price in my book, especially because NY prices are jacked up so high (especially on alcohol). So we had a nice little break from scouring the markets with all-you-can-drink mimosas. Definitely did me in!

After our lunch break, we continued to find more and more markets. Bleecker Street was having some sort of fair (the only one this summer supposedly) so we were pretty lucky to stumble upon that, We ended up walking east on Bleecker St. to NYU and Washington Square Park. That park is beautiful. I just love the Washington Square Arch, and I think it might be based on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

From the park we walked up 5th Ave. back home. Bethany was wanting to go to a free concert in Central Park, so we decided we might as well try and go to that. Well, by the time we all met up, bought some dinner and wine from a small market next to Central Park, it was dark and the concert had been going on for more than an hour. And, being it was in the biggest park in NY (and the fact that it was pitch black out), we could not find the concert worth the life of us! Everytime we heard music playing we followed it, and everytime it turned out to be a dead end. Finally we just camped at a spot where people were having salsa dancing lessons (well, I think that's what they were doing) and enjoyed sushi and a bottle of wine in the park. What a tiring day... but always ready for more!

Lots of fun stuff coming up this week ;) Details later.