Tom's Resturant and Saint John the Divine

Today after running some very important errands and making very important appointments, all before 1pm!!!, I was clear for the day and met my cousins in Central Park for some more sight seeing and showing them around a bit. After showing them a few spots in Central Park and we went to Tom's Restaurant. The restaurant most famously known for being the hang out of the Seinfeld cast in the famous show, Seinfeld.
Personally I have no idea if the taped inside the restaurant but if they did it wold be very difficult to because of the size of the place, its a lot smaller then it seems on the show.
I had a ham omelette and it was good. My cousins had the malt and a turkey wrap and the enjoyed their meals too.

Leilani and I outside of Tom's restaurant, Where George, Jerry and Elaine used to hang out!

 After Tom's we parted ways and Leilani and I went to Saint John the Divine Cathedral for the first time. It was pretty amazing! I think cathedrals are a true testament to what man can create and do with its bare hands. When most, if not all, cathedrals were built it was far before the invention of advanced machinery and these humongous cathedrals were still erected. However, the down side to some cathedrals is that there foundations were sometimes built on corruption.
Never the less the cathedral was breath taking and the attention to detail in impeccable. The people of these cathedrals took their time and had a story to tell. No detail was left out.

Look at the attention to detail!

From the street.

A side view.

I'm currently undertaking my third First of the day. Homemade Avocado hair mask!! I'll be sure to let you all know how it turns out!
Total First for today: 3!

• (Seinfeld's) Tom's Resturant
• Saint John the Divine Cathedral 
• Homemade Avocado Hair Mask

Thank you for reading!

WHAT a DAY!!

Empire State building at 9:30am, Metropolitan Museum of art till 3pm, Dylan's Candy Bar, then FAO Schwartz and finished the day in Central Park.
That was my day today!
My First for today were taking my daughter to the Empire State Building, going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and using a New York City Pass.
I am EXHAUSTED! To say the least.
I have some family in town and it is my younger cousin's first time in New York City and of course I want to show them around! Her and her father were nice enough to buy me a City Pass to enjoy the sights with them!
My daughter has seen the movie James and the Giant Peach before and she was especially thrilled to be on the top of the Empire state building where James landed. When I picked her up and showed her the view she smiled so hard I thought her cheeks were going to break! "Wow! Mommy look beautiful New York City!!"
It was really nice to be able to take her and I even learned that shes FREE! So we can go back anytime, until she turns six, and I only have to pay for myself.
After the Empire State Building we were off to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I was pretty excited and walking through there and seeing all the beautiful art was amazing and very nice. The museum is HUGE!! and can be overwhelming so if you go either go and just walk and let the museum guide you or your head is liable to literally SPIN. Unlike the museums in Madrid you can take pictures of the art in the MET, however there are a few limited areas where you are not able to. Another thing I did for the First time today was go on the Garden Roof of the museum and that provided some wonderful sights of the city as well.
After that we jumped on the 1 bus, also a First, and eventually walked over to a burger joint right around Hunter College campus. (I'll get the name and post it a bit later)

Leilani looking over the city on top of the Empire State Building

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's roof top garden.

Simply GORGEOUS! My favorite piece of art and then first time seeing anything like it, in terms of classical art not modern.

The day was wonderful and I am glad that I'm getting to know my cousins better!

Total First for today: 5!

• Empire State Building with my daughter
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• MET roof top garden
• Bus 1
• and the burger joint

Thank you for reading and I will upload some more pictures tomorrow!

August 17th: Thai Kitchen Red Curry

Yesterday's First was using Thai Kitchen's Red Curry to make homemade Red Curry chicken with delicious jasmine rice. The food was good but unfortunately it wasn't as good as the red curry chicken I have from Thai restaurant's. However, that only means one thing! Try, try and try again until it comes out better then the Thai restaurant's! :)

Margaritaville SPIKED TEA

Since I am finally crossing things off my "To Do List" like a mad women I decided to reward myself with a little drink...or a few :)
I'm not much of a drinker and the fact that I always miss the liquor store hours maybe helps as well.
However, today I continued on my path of future planning and taking the necessary steps to make sure the plans I set in motion now will become a solid reality one day.
After so child less relaxing and appointment making I bought a six pack of Margaritaville's Spiked Tea to enjoy. At first taste I thought it was gross and then I took another sip and ... its not that bad. :)

Yes, that's my empty bottle.

My next First was trying Melona ice cream! Its a Korean ice cream that is surprisingly milky and fruity at the same time!I got it for free as I was strolling through Central Park and stumbled upon the second annual Korean Festival. Sadly, I got there too late and the food was being packed up :( but I got the ice cream for free and who can frown for long when you have ice cream, especially FREE ice cream? The bar was yummy and only 75 calories!! Yes I'm one of those that counts calories... I'll admit it.

At the end of the it was another fantastic day and I'm really excited at the continuous growth and change of my other blog Teenmomnyc.blogspot.com!!

11 Days! Part 2!

• Going to the Brain exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History
• Which reminded me of another First I forgot to blog about, going to see Bodies while in Michigan
• The American Museum of Natural History had an interactive hands on exhibit solely about the brain!! Since we are members we got in for free! I tried going before but it had recently opened and was PACKED full of people so I turned around and just left. Then the other day while on Twitter the museum tweeted that the exhibit was going to close that Sunday. I arrived at the museum as to beat the crowd and we got in to the exhibit instantly! The exhibit was very nice, informative and cool. They showed you how the brain functions how it is such a small organ but one of the most advanced on complex on the planet. The exhibit also had hands on displays and things for children as well. When you first walk in there are all this long fiberoctive like wire that have light running back and forth throughout them to display how the brain sends and receives messages while taking in messages and interrupting them at the same time. Both the Brain exhibit and the Bodies exhibit in Grand Rapids, Michigan really put into perspective how complex and advanced the human body is. It also reinforced the "what you put in is what you get out" saying.

A sculpture inside the exhibit that shows the senses.

Leilani and the BRAIN!!!

• Buying a domain name
• I have big plans for my teen mom blog! I'm actually very excited and optimistic! I knew the first step of maturing my blog into what I want it to be was by making it into a website and buying the domain name was the FIRST STEP!! Currently you can check it out at: http://teenmomny.blogspot.com/  but it is still in the transitional stage.If you have any suggestions or feedback let me know!:)
• Ordering business cards
• The next step in developing my dream is BUSINESS CARDS!! so I ordered some and they are super cute and will definitely upload a picture once the come in!
• Shopping at Cookies for Leilani's back to school clothing
• I have been a MESS with all the stress, that is now THANKFULLY reduced, and with the emotional  toll of knowing my daughter is off to kindergarten this year! So after getting a REALLY good deal  at The Children's Place, 4 jeans, four shirts and two shirts for $60! We went over the check out Cookies, a department store for kids. Needless to say not much there. I did get her a few things but I don't think I will be going back regularly. However, I did get her her very FIRST OFFICIAL school book bag!! And naturally I cried...
• Drinking Love Potion a delicious and alluring drink.
• I tried Love Potion for the very First time and now that I'm writing about it I'm actually craving it, that's how good it is. The taste is very original its a milk based drink that can be enjoyed with or with out liquor and something I will definitely be drinking more of. The drinking has its own Twitter page and you can check it out at @lovepotion214. Believe me you will want to be the one in your circle of friends that knows about this first. Because it will make you cooler of COURSE!

• Drinking Qream which is a good mixer for Love Potion
• Qream is also a milk based drink however it does have liquor in it and I didn't find it as appealing on its own. The drink is from producer Pharrell and he has designed it for the ladies.
• Uploading a piece to Travel Dudes
• A great travelers website, definitely worth checking out! I posted my first piece on here and while I will admit it isn't that good I was and still am very excited that I did it because now the following post will only get better and easier to write!

And that concludes my 11days!
Thank you for reading and don't forget to suggest suggest suggest!

11 days! Part One

Wow I have 11 days that I need to back track and blog about.
First off I would like to apologize for the delay I have had A LOT going on in my personal life lately and lots of stress. If you care to read about it you can head over to Teen Mom NYC .

As far as my eleven new first here they go.

• Trying barbacoa from a Mexican Establishment
• There is a taco shop at down the block from where I live and they make authentic Mexican tacos all the time. I tried a bit of barbacoa at Chipotle for the first time and fell in love and figured that it would taste better from an authentic Mexican establishment. For those of you whom do not know what barbacoa is, a way to prepare a shredded beef that is usually spicy. The process of cooking is long and a lot of slow cooking, smoking and humidity however the end result, from Chipotle at least it delicious! Well back to my Mexican taco store... I ordered the barbacoa and I'm sad to say I was not impressed in the slightest. I'm still on the quest for delicious authentic barbacoa but will settle for Chipotle for now.
• Using a Flip camera for the first time
• My younger sister, Lillie, has a Flip camera and when she was having her Quincenera, Hispanic sweet 15, I was supposed to record the action but never did. Sorry Billy but some of the best memories are off camera ....lol When I got back from my vacation my father showed me that he had a new Flip camera and since I had nothing better to do I took it with me to the park to video record Leilani playing. After using the Flip I want on now! It so convenient, little and has a surprisingly great picture! Plus I want some type of video recorder besides my phone so I can tape her growing up and we ca have corny family video night when she gets older and possibly wants nothing to do with me (teenage years). Lol I'm a mess.
• Unintentionally going to a Whole Foods Wine tasting
• It was the last day of one of my best friends being in the city and after dropping Leilani off with the sitter it was time for some mommy time! After urging her to pack her bag since she was taking off in a matter of hours we went out to eat with mutual friends and stopped at Whole Foods for some wine! I read the sign outside that said that they were having a wine tasting and it was delicious! All the wine was organic, sulfite free and from local wineries!  
• This was also the First time I tried organic sulfite free wines and I'm not really planning on going back. lol Yes its that good!

REALLY GOOD!!

Some of the wines

• Going to the Baruch on site child care facility
• Being that my school starts before Leilani's I had to find a place to put her for the few days that are in between my school start date and her school start date. The first place I called wad the on site campus child care that Baruch offers and was delighted that they would do it! I had to go down to the location and fill out and pick up paper work. The location is very nice! It open, airy and they even have pets! But contained of course! My daughter liked the location which made me feel a lot better. The one stipulation is a physical form and since we have no insurance or family doctor the search for a cheap CLEAN clinic began.
• Going to the Ryan Nena center in the East Village and riding the 23 and 09 bus
• After literally calling 20 clinics!I found one in the East Village that offers physicals for $35!!! But I had to go register my daughter and in order to do this I had to ride the 23 and 09 bus. I registered my daughter and myself for their services and we will be back BRIGHT and EARLY on physical day! The staff at the clinic was very nice, fast and informative. Plus the clinic was CLEAN!

• Taking my daughter to Coney Island and Friday Night fireworks
• After a VERY stressful and reflective week I took my daughter to Coney Island to finally enjoy the rides! She has been asking to go to the rides for months now and with a very fixed and inconsistent income it been dam near impossible to take her. So when I finally had money, that I will admit wasn't much and shouldn't have been spend on Coney Island, I took her!She had a BLAST she got on her very first carnival rides and got on her very first roller coaster all by HERSELF!!! yeah my kid is bad A like that! :) After the rides and some food we settled in the sand to watch the fireworks display. One thing about me is that I LOVE fireworks so I was just like a child watching the display and clapping like a crazy person! The display last about a half hour and the full moon made it extra AWESOME!

Coney Island at night

Perfect shot!

The beautiful moon

Leilani and I one a pretty intense kiddie ride

Thank you for reading and don't forget to check out part 2!!

Once again thank you for reading and dealing with my sluggish post.

August 4th: Curious George 2

I decided early on in the day that my first for today "yesterday" was going to be a movie. Then my daughter told me she really wanted me to watch a movie with her so I let her pick and her choice was Curious George 2. The movie was cute short and simple kinda like this post. :)

P.S its HOT!