hot town, summer in the city

Finally the cold is gone and the city is becoming MUCH more enjoyable due to the excess of sunlight I received this weekend. Luckily the sun rises right outside my bedroom window so I made sure to do some sun bathing in the morning. The whole weekend was spent on the go in the best way possible. Manhattan on Saturday - Long Island and Queens on Sunday. Saturday started off with a trip to "Black Tree" for their famous "winter pig" sandwich featured on the food network. Then a trip to "Big Gay Ice Cream" followed by a walk in the park where we may of may not have seen a dead person laying in the grass...I don't think he was dead because just an ambulance came and not a police officer so there is my logic. After that uplifting moment we watched about 20 dogs having play time in the park - and we named most of them. Damien was a beautiful husky, and lil princess was a tiny morsel of a dog. You get the gist. After some more wandering around the lower east side we popped into "Crif Dogs" which is home to the famous speakeasy "PDT." Below is the awesomeness that is a bacon wrapped hotdog.

Sunday was a 6AM wake up to get some laundry out of the way, followed by church and a good cleaning of the kitchen and bathroom. After that we hit up a flea market in Long Island, grocery shopped at trader joes and set off for brunch all before noon. Gotta love a productive Sunday. "The Station House" in forest hills is located right by the long island rail road station and features an electronic beer board that informs people the status of each keg on draft in terms of ABV, origin, and which kegs are almost gone or freshly tapped kegs. Everything is rotated very often so there is always something new! This might be my new favorite local spot. As you can see below I had to get the chicken and waffles - a staple of my diet, and I was not disappointed.

I might have caught Mike in a moment of bliss with his cappuccino milkshake from "Martha's Country Bakery." It was a pre-movie dessert before we saw "Noah," which by the way don't waste your money on seeing. 

As you can see we took full advantage of the "wandering around" weather we had this weekend. We cook about 95% of our meals so it was nice to be out exploring without a real destination in mind and just trying little bites of everything on the way. Happy urban exploring everyone!