My best friend and I love walking; we can walk around a city for hours on end and we’re known in our social circle as fast walkers. What better place to walk around in than New York City? Whenever we hang out on the weekends we start off our day at the Starbucks on 7th Ave and 28th. This one-hour session of taking in caffeine and sharing stories from the week that has passed is imperative for making it through the rest of the day. About two weeks ago after one such morning, we proceeded to walk up Avenue of Americas until we reached Central Park. We were blessed with beautiful 64 degree weather, and the sun set off the most gorgeous shades of gold and copper in the leaves of the trees. Making a pit-stop by the pond where all the kids can rent toy sailboats, we noticed that the woman sitting one bench over looked an awful lot like Susan Sarandon. Our hopes were shattered within minutes however, as the woman in question began speaking in Spanish to someone on the phone. After a good amount of people watching (one of our favorite activities) we decided it was time to continue on with our day and started roaming around the Upper East side. After a quick lunch at Le Pain Quotidien we made our way towards my all-time favorite hotel, Waldorf Astoria. On the way there we hopped into a bustling wine shop for some free wine tasting. An older gentleman struck up a conversation with me regarding the $50 bottle of Cabernet, and we agreed that it was rather disappointing. The $250 version on the other hand was smoother than anything I’ve ever had, apart from Amarone of course. The more expensive the wine, the darker my lips turn upon drinking it, so I had some pretty prominent “wine mouth” by the time we left the shop.
