NYC: Day 3, Who's the (Cake) Boss?

Day Three in NYC started out with breakfast at FLUFFY's CAFE.
In honor of OUR "fluffy" (Olivia). Just a little diner with a quick
breakfast and some hot chocolate to warm us up. We actually
had to stop and buy Grace a sweatshirt because she was
FREEEEZING! (Thank goodness for H&M again!)


Just a pretty picture inside the shop next door to Fluffy's.
They had the canoli stacked high--they were GORGEOUS
looking. (never did taste one)


And what does one do when visiting NYC? Well, hop
the PATH to Hoboken, NJ for a morning adventure, that's what!
I think we were on a reality TV show quest this trip. We
decided on a quick adventure over to the New Jersey side
of the East (Hudsen? I'm not sure which one) River.

To visit none other than Carlos Bakery of TLC's "Cake Boss".
A short train ride under the river....
(which made me a little crazy if I thought about it for
too long...I mean come on! UNDER.THE.RIVER?)...
and we were in Hoboken baby! Home of Carlos Bakery.

A quick walk about 2 blocks from the station and we
were on Carlos Bakery Way, looking at the line to get into
the bakery. It was really cloudy, windy and cold--so we
were told we only had a 1/2 hour wait. Which was pretty
great considering we had heard of wait times of 2 hours or more.


Carlos Bakery and the line to get in.



They received their morning delivery while we were
waiting. Eggs, shortening and more eggs. Lots of eggs.



Josh doing his uni-bomber impersonation again. Seriously,
the whole trip he had that hood up and did only weird
faces for pictures.



Inside the bakery it was pretty crazy and crowded. You had
to make up your mind fast and order. It ALL looked so great.



Josh holding our spoils.



The view of Manhattan from the New Jersey side.
It seriously is an amazing view of the city.


The ferry stop--you can cross either UNDER or OVER the water
from NYC to NJ. We opted for the cheaper version while I thought
UN claustrophobic thoughts. Under the water, we are NOT
under the water....you could actually feel your ears pop when you
went from under land to under liquid.


Adoration on Grace's part anyway.



Seriously Josh is a well adjusted child--I am using ALL
of these pictures for black mail someday!!!


Looking back toward the city, see the Empire State bldg?



The PATH train we took from NYC to NJ and back again.
I have to say this may have been the emptiest subway/train
I have EVER been in NYC. Although I think at commuter time
7 am or 6 pm--it would PROBABLY be PACKED with people.




After we returned from NJ, we walked the shops along
5th Ave. Apple, F.A.O. Schwartz, The Trump Tower (you
could go up in this and look out at the city on the various
levels of balconies), 30 Rock (I really wanted to meet Tina Fey)
No, really I did!



We sat outside 30 Rock for a while and people watched.
I ran into the American Girl store here to buy Fluffy her
NYC American Girl Doll T shirt (for her doll, not her).

We walked and walked some more and stopped close to
Times Square (again--do all paths lead to Times Square?)
to eat at Johns Pizza. It was SUCH a great place. The pizza
was some of the best we have EVER eaten and the
atmosphere was great too. It was like stepping out of NYC
for a minute into the big roomy yummy place.






BEST.PIZZA.EVER.


I can't believe we at the whole thing. Like I said before
though we ate only breakfast and dinner the whole trip
and we were STARVING after all that walking!



They DELIVER!!! Do you see that? Do you think
they deliver to Holladay, Utah?

What we did 100 times a day...used the subway turn-
stiles to swipe our Metro Card to get on the subway.



In a city of people who only seem to wear black, we teased
Grace about her choice of sweatshirt color(s). Needless
to say, she was NEVER hard to find in a crowd for the
rest of our trip.



Each night we got off the 1 Train and had to walk across
Columbia campus--it is a really pretty college campus. The
one thing I said I missed about suburban life was on nights
like this when we were REALLY really tired, we couldn't just
climb into our car/van/suv and drive home to our house.
We always had to walk to a train/bus and then walk from
the subway stop home.