happy 4th!

This weekend Mary and Becca came to visit from Boston and we ate our way through New York bakeries. We started our total disregard for anything nutritious at Alice's Tea Cup, a tea house based on Alice in Wonderland.

I hardly remember anything about the tea though, because the scones were so incredible. I had a pumpkin and a banana peanut-butter chocolate scone, Mary had goat cheese and basil and a salted carmel, and Becca had pumpkin and buttermilk. The scones were so huge that we ate half of each and were still stuffed.

From there we wandered through Riverside Park and Columbus Circle and stopped at the Union Square Market to buy fresh basil, mozzarella, tomatoes and zucchini for a homemade pizza. Before making our pizza we swung by Magnolia's where we each got not one, but 2 desserts for lunch. (I had a 4th of July cupcake and a lemon square)

I hope you're having a wonderful 4th of July! Mine's going to include more cooking and eating and I hope yours does too.

a sweet surprise

Instead of running up to Town and Country to make copies or grabbing a back issue from the floor below, today my fellow intern Kylie and I got to run a more exciting errand ...

We went to Magnolia Bakery to buy cupcakes!

There are three Magnolias in New York, and we dropped by one on the upper West side. The distressed checkerboard floor,bead board ceiling and cheery yellow walls were adorable. Armed with GH money, we bought one of almost every cupcake (and since we're going to the meeting later we each get one too!).

We also stopped by Whole Foods to pick up some pink lemonade. The whole day wasn't fun and games (we spent a portion of it cleaning out files into a dumpster), but walking to Magnolia's was a welcomed break from sitting inside on a sunny day. It's dangerously close to my normal route home, so I'm sure I'll be back soon.