Day 2: More provisioning and getting the lay of the land

There are still a few more things I know I'll need in NY. Since Monday was Memorial Day, I thought I'd take the opportunity to check out the sales at Loehmann's discount department store, which was recommended to me as something I should experience while in NY. I was reading more than counting stops, though, so I accidentally got out one stop too late and ended up at Filene's Basement instead. Oops. Another good NY shopping spot, though.

I didn't buy anything at either store, but it wasn't a total waste. Because while I was walking around, I suddenly saw these:




If you don't know what these are, then you didn't watch Season 4 of Project Runway. (Note: These were all of the ones on display. I think Rami's got sold for charity, explaining its absence.) Apparently I was the first of the passersby at that time to notice them, because people stopped to see why I was taking a picture of a random store window (which I have a feeling may happen a lot) and then started exclaiming, "Look! Oh! Look! From Project Runway!" It made me really happy to see the dresses, but it caught me off guard enough that I didn't write down the name of the candy store. It was NOT a Hershey's store, and I was nowhere near Times Square.

I made another trip back to BB&B for the things I couldn't carry on day 1. In the evening I accompanied flat mate and doggie on a walk to get recommendations about local businesses I should check out. I was a little surprised to learn that her three favorite restaurants in the area are Pizzeria Uno, Applebee's, and Panera. I guess I'll have to explore the little local places myself. But so far I'm just eating what I bought at Pathmark. I did learn where RiteAid and Chase are, though, so that was good.

I learned something funny tonight. If you don't get cable here, the only stations you can get are basically all reality programming. I'm not sure what that means, but there you have it. It may drive me crazy, but I was already planning on a TV-less summer anyway.