My New York Sweat-away

I had a work meeting in NYC last Thursday with the lovely ladies of Pascale Communications. It's an all-virtual, all-female niche public relations firm that specializes in health care, primarily ophthalmology. I do their medical writing. Once a year or so we all get together to build our team spirit (read: eat and laugh together). It was a fabulous time, although I have no pictures of the actual "work" events.

I was also able to take advantage of the trip and have a lovely girls weekend in the city, and spent some time with some of my favorite women that I don't see nearly often enough. New York was experiencing a heat wave while we were there, so it was over 100 degrees and disgustingly humid the entire trip. My sister Lindsay (who is a personal shopper for anthropologie) outfitted me with adorable fashion for my trip there, and most of my cute outfits got kicked to the curb because they required long pants or too many layers and I couldn't handle the heat. And in case you were wondering, all that heat and humidity does not create a plesant environment for my uber-sensitive sniffer. I wanted to gag every time I left the hotel. Seriously.

But above all, it was a fabulous trip. First of all, I got to see Tammy for the first time in over two years. She is the most amazing person, a wonderful friend, and always a party. She also knows all the good places to eat. Here we had scrumptous breakfasts at Norma's in Le PArker Meridien hotel.
She also convinces me to do things like "go for drinks" at midnight on a Thursday to fun roof top bars where I have to make small talk with the excess men that are trying to hit on her. I just started talking about my husband and kids and they disappeared quickly.

We went to dinner one night at The Spice Market in the meatpacking district. I highly recommend it - everything was delish.

Friday morning we made it to the MET where we checked out the Alexander McQueen exhibit with Diane Keaton. It was amazing - as was the line to get in. I became a museum member to avoid it. McQueen was a true visionary and it was fabulous to see how his suit tailor background worked its way into the details of so many of his concoctions.

Paige, always up for a party, flew out from California and my good friend Catherine, who is currently living in Pennsylvania, also made it into the city.

Catherine and I sat in Colombus circle for probably more than an hour eating Tasty-D-lite yogurt and chatting.

Sunday morning we biked around Central Park and then met my friend Carol for brunch. (I'm dumb, no picture of Carol)

One of my main goals of this trip was to visit some of the fabric stores recommended by a designer/blogger I read and find some fabric to recover the chairs in my living room. I went to Mood, of Project Runway fame, and they had the most amazing selection. But the best deals were found in these little dives where you really have to search.

I mean, would you even walk in the door if someone hadn't recommended them? But I found some great fabric!

I also spent a mere hour at ABC Home & Carpet. I love that store. I wanted these amazing pendant lights for either side of my bed, but I can't afford over $1000 for bedside reading lights...

In spite of profuse sweating the entire weekend, it was such a fabulous trip. I love New York, but more than that I realized what AMAZING girlfriends I have. And I'm so lucky that they would all organize their lives to visit with me!