Saturday in the city

We enjoyed another morning sleeping in and were heading to the gym but were delayed when Ruthann received the call from her parents that her grandpa had passed :( He has been battling poor health for quite some time and they knew this was right around the corner but it never seems to make the passing of a love one any easier. And because Ruthann is about to have her baby, she will not be able to travel to the funeral in OH next week. We all cried together and she shared fond memories of her times with her grampie!

We managed to get down to the gym for another workout but we didn't have too much time because Ruthann's baby shower was at 1pm in the city. I did manage to get in another 3 mile run and it was great. We all hustled and bustled around the apartment to get ready just in time. We had to take a black car into the city because the 7 train isn't running all weekend but it actually was much faster getting in to the city. It was fun to see another NY apartment layout and this one being a 4 bedroom spacious apartment on the upper east side. Ruthann told me it probably cost around $3.5 million...WHAT?!? It's so ridiculous!! Anyways, it was fun to meet Ruthann's NYC girlfriends at the shower.

We were at the shower till almost 4pm and then Ruthann and I made our trek to SoHo (downtown) which is an area I had yet to see. It's like everytime you take the Subway and pop up to another part of town, it's like being in an entirely different city. It's so fun. We went to a young designers market on Mulberry Street (between Prince and Houston) and it was very cool to walk through. I saw lots of jewelry that were one of a kind pieces that I liked but nothing that struck me as a must-have piece. From there we walked around the shops of SoHo which was fun but I have to say that weather yesterday was miserable. First off, we were dressed up from the shower so we weren't dressed very warm. The wind was so bad and it felt like 15 degrees outside and it was brutal. Ruthann did introduce me to this shop called Sabon and going in any store to get out of the cold was a great idea. I am a sucker for new and fun bath and body type shops and this one did NOT disappoint. Matt met up with us there and we walked several blocks to Little Italy where we enjoyed an authentic Italian dinner at Matt's favorite restaurant called "Il Cortile". It was delicious. We then walked up to Cafe Roma and had coffee and dessert before catching a cab back home. It was another great day in the city.