Summer in the City – Day 2: Kiss-In, Lush & Whole Foods Lunch

Missed Day One?
Part 1 Summer in the City – Day 1: Pancakes, Wine & Cupcakes
Part 2 Summer in the City – Day 1: Drinks at Macondo and the Spinto Band

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Onto Saturday morning in the city! The weather was gorgeous. I was so happy, because every time I’ve ever been to the city, it was either raining, or snowing, in the dead of winter. This was my first time visiting in the summer! 🙂 How perfect.

Leaving times square, Chris & I noticed a commotion going on. It was the Times Square Kiss-In!

There was a 26-foot statue replica of the famous photograph:

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It was so awesome! I love that photograph, so seeing the statue was really cool! I tired to take our picture in front of it, but you can’t even see the statue! Oh well. It was still cute!

The morning’s mission: Union Square! Specifically, Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. Since we don’t have any of these stores anywhere near Albany, I really wanted to go.

On the way, Chris stopped and got a NYC hot dog at the hot dog cart! So cute!

On the way to Union Square, we got distracted by Lush. I went into this store with my friend Krista the last time I was in the city, but Saturday Chris and I spent some time talking with the sales people about the different products. Lush is a bath and body store, and they really care about the environment, so all of their products are made from fresh, organic fruits and veggies, and some are even vegan! Although expensive, I’m a big fan of this company and their beliefs.
     

We left with with a bag full of goodies. I got the Creamed Almond and Coconut Shower Smoothie. Bonus: it’s vegan! Nice! And smells yummy and feels great on my skin.

I also got a sugar scrub, the Sugar Babe Body Sugar Scrub, which is made with fair trade sugar, beeswax, and coconut oil. This also feels great and helps relieve dry skin. I’m sure it will be awesome for the winter time, if I still have some left!

Chris got a bunch of cool products too, a tea tree face toner, and a nice body wash. I really like this store! Too bad there weren’t any around here. I guess I’ll just have to order online when I need more!

After our stop at Lush, we headed down to Whole Foods! Hurray!

And it was glorious! I probably could have spent all day in here looking around at all the goods. But, we just had lunch. Oh, the amazing food!

I tried some of the quinoa salads they had…What can I say, I was craving quinoa! I can’t even remember what I grabbed besides the quinoa, some arugula, roasted veggies, sun dried tomatoes, feta, a slice of naan, and some fruit. It’s was all in a big pile in my container.

And my favorite coconut water that I can never find.

Happy at Whole Foods! It was a tasty + healthy lunch. I think my body needed that healthy food after eating pancakes, cupcakes and too much wine the previous day. 😉

After Whole Foods, we walked down the street a little bit to Trader Joe’s! TJ’s was great too, much more in my price range!

I actually picked up a few things, some TJ’s almond butter (cheaper than my almond butter here) and some sunflower seed butter! I also got random tea tree oil face cleansing pads.

The only thing crappy about TJ’s was horrendous line. I guess that’s the price you pay in NYC. We went to the wine shop too…which was awesome as well. They had my Vino Verde for only 3.99! But I didn’t get it. So much wine!

On the way back…my dream clothing store! Beautiful running and yoga clothes.

I think going in here was a mistake, because it just tempted me with all of the gorgeous workout clothes that I can never afford…so sad! They didn’t even have a sale rack! Boooo.

Anyway, after checking out a couple of places near Union Square, it was time to go back and get ready for dinner! Its funny how FAST time goes in the city! We felt like we hardly had time to do anything! But we did get a lot done that we wanted to, its just we didn’t fit everything in…there is SO much to do! Crazy.

I took some pretty pictures in Union Square.

Saturday evening is coming up…complete with a Zen Experience, and American Idiot on Broadway! Woohoo! 😉