of cupcakes and cocktails, sparkles and sunsets

the thing i love most of all about carrie, charlotte, miranda and samantha (from the show 'sex and the city' for the uninitiated!) is the glamorous life they led in one of the sexiest cities on earth. coffee and luncheons by day, and many a cocktail by night the girls knew how to work new york...and now i know too...! i was shown how by a fabulous, single new yorker, dressed much like my 4 favorite new york city girls, who guided us to all the show and movie hot spots. my amazing work colleagues had shouted matt and i on this tour and while matt came along semi-reluctantly...(secretly he was thrilled im sure!) he ended up really enjoying himself. we drove past trendy restaurants, cafes and bars that the girls frequented, enjoyed a cupcake from the famous magnolia bakery in the east village and a cosmo from 'scout's bar' and visited the 'pleasure chest'...enough said really!!

and when, the following day, we visited Tiffany's on 5th I imagined i was Charlotte..(Trey - "Why don't we go in here and buy you the most expensive ring they have". Charlotte "alrighty"!) and although i couldnt afford even the smallest of charms on my backpacker budget, i lost myself in the sparkle and dreamt of a little blue box to call my own. one day...

a must do for any tourist in nyc is the view from the top of the empire state building...its a classic sight...the tick of all ticks. so with a sparkle in our eye we climbed to the top (yes, literally for the last 6 floors...what were we thinking?) and watched the sun set over this sexy city, the lights came on one by one over Manhattan and we felt like, at last, we'd felt the city buzz.

a yellow taxi ride later we were deep in the heart of the trendy east village enjoying good thai food and a few sexy cocktails...the night before we had found ourselves in a small and intimate comedy club on broadway, and the night before that, of course, the musical 'chicago'...new york has something for everyone..and, though we only have a few nights here, we are definitely trying to 'glam' it up just like my 4 fabulous new york friends.

xx