Hello! Hope everyone is having a nice day so far! I am going to share some photos from the weekend since the birthday celebrations continued!
Friday
I had plans to go to a bar called Maya with Dori, my friend Kaity, and a few others. After writing my end of the week reflections last Friday, I decided it would be a nice idea to walk to the bar. I looked it up and it said it was 3.2 miles and would take an hour and 15 minutes. I got out of work early and it was a beautiful day out so why not? For those of you who are familiar with New York, I walked from Chelsea to the Upper East Side. It took about an hour and definitely made me thirsty for a mango margarita!
Maya has great happy hour specials. The margaritas were half-priced and the appetizers were just $3.00. We ended up ordering some guacamole for the table. It was delicious!
I also split 2 appetizers with Kaity. They were tiny but delicious! No wonder they were just $3.00! We split the Huarache Vegetariano: huitlacoche, mushrooms, goat cheese, and salsa verde on crispy flatbread.
Yum! I love anything with mushrooms and goat cheese! We also split a chicken taco. I wasn’t as crazy about this.
I had about 4 margaritas by the time we were done!
Dori and I.
Kaity and I.
We went to one more bar afterwards. We were all starving by the end of the night since the appetizers were so small so we went to the diner. Dori and I split an omelet with mushrooms, avocado, and cheddar cheese.
My plate:
Very fun night! Love all that melted cheese. Yumm.
Saturday
I had my actual birthday party at a rooftop bar called Highbar. I stopped and grabbed something to eat before the party. I figured it was the smart thing to do before drinking all day! I got the West Coast Vegetarian wrap from Pax Foods.
It contained chick peas, sundried tomatoes, watercress, fresh alfalfa sprouts, avocado and goat cheese all inside a whole wheat wrap. Perfect!
I got to Highbar at 2:00pm since there was an open bar from 2:00 to 3:00! The bar was so nice! We had a view of the cruise ships!
I got the best margarita ever! It was a Watermelon Mint Margarita! I stuck with these most of the day. So refreshing!
The open bar was for Smirnoff Ice. I had one or two of them. I don’t think I’ve seen one of those since college!
We also got vodka infused watermelon!!
Best thing ever.
We drank for about 5 hours and eventually left so we could eat some dinner! We ended up at Vynl. We started with the Vegetable Dumplings.
Dori and I decided to get 2 entrees and split them because we could not decide!
We got the Grilled Vegetable Goat Cheese wrap.
We also got the Veggie Burger sandwich.
My plate! Sorry for the blur. Guess the alcohol was setting in! The fries were amazing of course! Aren’t they always after drinking?
Sunday
I had plans to go home to Philly for Father’s Day. Somehow I woke up earlier than necessary so I decided to attempt a run. My 5K is in 2 days so I wanted to see if I could run 3 miles. Did I make it? No. I blame it on drinking the day before for hours and the 90 degree weather. I also failed to bring water with me. I maybe ran 2 miles and had to stop and walk. I did the whole run/walk thing for 4 miles total. I think I’ll be fine on Thursday though. We’ll see! Eventually I took the train home and brought Daisy along to keep me company.
I layed out by our pool all day.
My dad kept handing me these! Maybe I should come home more often.
I’d say it was a fun filled weekend! Back to reality now. I have some fun events after work every night this week so stay tuned for some recaps! Have a good one!
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Highbar looks like so much fun – and you girls look gorgeous! Mmmm margaritas and cold mixed drinks sound SO good in this heat. I used to LOVE Smirnoff Ice, too!
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What a fun birthday! Makes me thirsty for tequila just looking at your recap!
I had to laugh at the smirnoff ice. Oh college…and high school memories. Oops! Love it! Hope you have a wonderful year!
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girl you did it up for your bday! i love it
those watermelon drinks look so fab. and you and dori look so gawjy at highbar!! way to start your year off right girl!
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that wrap looks delicious! love fun margaritas too – you’re having an awesome summer. love it
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Watermelon and mint is the BEST combo! Yum. And I would love to try some of that vodka infused watermelon.
Looks like so much fun! Can’t wait to go home next month and have a pool to lounge by!
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i always love finding the kitty in random places
mmm vodka watermelon would be perfect post race
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i want to go to there… and by there i mean everywhere! you certainly partied it up!
it looks like it was an amazing time.
And ever since i read the DONT EAT IT FRED blog, when i see huitilacoche i get grossed out… the authentic stuff is oversized corn that has mold in it… but i know for a fact you didnt eat that becuase your food looks and sounds delicious!
we must pick a date and hang!
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I won that shirt on another site-yay!
OMG your eats. Wow. I am going to NYC next wknd and am officially on a mission to find HighBar for the watermelon mint margarita-yum!!! And open bar from 2 to 3? Thats what Im talking about!
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Looks like a great birthday weekend! The Highbar sounds fun, but they should offer a better drink than Smirnoff Ice. What is it Freshman Year Night? hahahaha!
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[...] Eventually we decided to leave the bar and have some dinner. We tried to go to Rosa Mexicano but there was a very long wait. Instead we went to Maya, the same place we went to for my birthday. [...]